OSoMe: The IUNI observatory on social media

PeerJ Computer Science

Volumn 2016, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Davis, Clayton A ^a,b   Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca ^a   Aiello, Luca Maria ^c   Chung, Keychul ^b   Conover, Michael D ^d   Ferrara, Emilio ^e   Flammini, Alessandro ^a,b   Fox, Geoffrey C ^b   Gao, Xiaoming ^f   Gonçalves, Bruno ^g   Grabowicz, Przemyslaw A ^h   Hong, Kibeom ^b   Hui, Pik Mai ^a,b   McCaulay, Scott ^a   McKelvey, Karissa ⁱ   Meiss, Mark R ^j   Patil, Snehal ^k   Kankanamalage, Chathuri Peli ^a   Pentchev, Valentin ^a   Qiu, Judy ^b   Ratkiewicz, Jacob ^j   Rudnick, Alex ^j   Serrette, Benjamin ^a   Shiralkar, Prashant ^a,b   Varol, Onur ^a,b   Weng, Lilian ^l   Wu, Tak Lon ^m   Younge, Andrew J ^b   Menczer, Filippo ^a,b   more..

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bell Laboratories UK   (United Kingdom)

^d LINKEDIN CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FACEBOOK   (United States)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

ⁱ US Open Data   (United States)

^j GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^k YAHOO INC   (United States)

^l Affirm Inc   (United States)

^m AMAZON   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

API; Big data; Computational social science; Meme diffusion; Network science; Observatory; OSoMe; Social media; Twitter; Web science

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; NETWORK SCIENCE; OSOME; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; WEB SCIENCE;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85030102405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23765992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.87     Document Type: Article

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