Category: Mapping

Mapping Fentanyl Trades on the Darknet

Oct 16, 2017

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in Economics, Governance & Security, Mapping, Social Data Science

The US accounts for almost 40% of global darknet trade, with Canada and Australia at…
How useful are volunteer crisis-mappers in a humanitarian crisis?

May 18, 2017

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in Collective Action, Interviews, Mapping

Concerns have been raised about the quality of amateur mapping and data efforts, and the…
After dinner: the best time to create 1.5 million dollars of ground-breaking science

Apr 24, 2015

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in Mapping, Social Data Science

The Zooniverse is a predominant example of citizen science projects that have enjoyed particularly widespread…
What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?

Sep 8, 2014

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in Development, Mapping

As geographic content and geospatial information becomes increasingly integral to our everyday lives, places that…
What is stopping greater representation of the MENA region?

Aug 6, 2014

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in Development, Mapping

Negotiating the wider politics of Wikipedia can be a daunting task, particularly when in it…
How well represented is the MENA region in Wikipedia?

Jul 22, 2014

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in Development, Mapping

There are more Wikipedia articles in English than Arabic about almost every Arabic speaking country…
The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World

Jul 14, 2014

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in Development, Mapping

Arabic is one of the least represented major world languages on Wikipedia: few languages have…
Mapping the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain

Jun 27, 2014

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in Mapping

Without detailed information about small areas we can’t identify where would benefit most from policy…
Mapping collective public opinion in the Russian blogosphere

Feb 10, 2014

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in Mapping, Methods, Politics & Government, Social Data Science

The Russian language blogosphere counts about 85 million blogs—an amount far beyond the capacities of…
Edit wars! Measuring and mapping society’s most controversial topics

Dec 3, 2013

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in Mapping, Methods, Social Data Science

Although some topics are globally debated, like religion and politics, there are many topics which…
Who represents the Arab world online?

Oct 1, 2013

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in Development, Mapping, Methods, Social Data Science

The Middle East and North Africa are relatively under-represented in Wikipedia. Even after accounting for…
Mapping the uneven geographies of information worldwide

Jun 11, 2013

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in Development, Mapping, Methods

There are massive inequalities that cannot simply be explained by uneven Internet penetration. A range…