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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Social data"”.
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Social Data Mining for Crime Intelligence: Contributions to Social Data Quality Assessment and Prediction Methods
… leap to digital environments. The successes of data mining in a wide variety of disciplines have given birth to crime analysis. Traditional crime analysis is mainly focused on understanding crime patterns, however, it is unsuitable for identifying and monitoring emerging crimes. The true nature …
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PASM : a Policy Aware Social Miner
The Policy Aware Social Miner (PASM) project focuses on creating awareness of how seemingly harmless social data might reveal sensitive information about a person, which could be potentially abused. It seeks to define good practices around social data mining. PASM allows people to create policies …
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Analysis of spatio-social relations in a photographic archive (Flickr)
… aims to study and analyse the complex spatio-social relations among social entities who interact together in a spatially structured social group. This aim is approached in three steps: 1. Collecting and classifying spatio-social data, 2. Disambiguating place names that people use to refer to …
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Clarifying sensor anomalies using social network feeds
The explosive growth in social networks that publish real-time content begs the question of whether their feeds can complement traditional sensors to achieve augmented sensing capabilities. One such capability is to explain anomalous sensor readings. Towards that end, in this work, we build an …
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A Demographic Approach to Social Accounting
… no universally accepted organizing framework for social data in the United States. In fact, the fundamental single-year-of-age-, race-, and sex-specific population and vital event data are not published in a form that allows them to be organized into a consistent framework. This thesis applies …
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Why, New York City? Gauging the Quality of Life Through the Thoughts of Tweeters
<p>As a resource for social data, Twitter’s platform has been used to measure the quality of life through sentiment analysis. This capstone project explores another methodological technique—querying Twitter data around specific keyword terms to determine dominant topics, word patterns, and …
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Towards Support of Visual Analytics for Synthetic Information
… populations for the entire globe by resolving data inconsistencies, (ii) introduces opportunities to explore and find patterns in the data, and (iii) allows the addition of new synthetic population centers with minimal effort. We propose the following extensions to the system: (i) Data …
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Role of Visual Affordance of a Spatial Layout on Human Interactions at a Work Environment
… design and a cross-sectional survey design. A social interaction was selected as the unit of analysis. Spatial data was gathered through the use of a simple floor plan analysis as well as DepthmapX utilizing the theory of space syntax. Social data was collected by means of a controlled field …
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Unlocking the insights: data-analytic examinations of social signals in organizational practices
Using analytics to understand social data is an emerging research field across different academic disciplines including Information Systems. Information Systems (IS) discipline places the social media-related research at the intersection of people, organizations, and technology. While the recent …
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Social analytics for health integration, intelligence, and monitoring
Nowadays, patient-generated social health data are abundant and Healthcare is changing from the authoritative provider-centric model to collaborative and patient-oriented care. The aim of this dissertation is to provide a Social Health Analytics framework to utilize social data to solve the …
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APPLYING INFORMATION DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND METHODS TO OPERATIONS IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
… a useful tool for discovering large amounts of social data quickly, the practical use of Scraawl to the Marine information practitioner would be limited due to classification issues. However, it was found that influence within the analyzed communities spreads rapidly and widely according to …
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Reckoning with white-flight and faith: an ethno-theological case study of racial history and evangelical memory in postwar Los Angeles
… remained segregated, which historians and social scientists have quantitatively studied. To the historic and social data, this thesis aims to add a new exploratory qualitative study, specifically of white-flight evangelicals in Postwar Los Angeles. To date, a study of this kind has not been …
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An interdisciplinary approach to mapping soil carbon
… practices that incorporate both ecological and social data. The ecological aspect of the research identified a role for existing farm survey data in accurately predicting soil carbon distribution without the need for time and labour-intensive field work. The engagement with social science …
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Anomalous Behavior Analysis in Social Networks and Consumer Review Websites
Web and social media have been influencing every aspect of today's world, rendering a tremendous amount of data that requires new insights to know about the current society. The usage and dependence on these media has led to their active use by a small yet powerful group of users to sway the …
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Contraceptive Use Across Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Contraceptive Use in Women Seeking Care at Sun Yat-sen University Hospital, China and Monduli District Hospital, Tanzania
… consent. The survey included demographic and social data, socioeconomic status (SES), obstetric history, and contraceptive choice. Data were analyzed using Student’s T-test and Chi-square test for continuous and categorical data, respectively. A P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. …
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Federated learning-based 3D pothole detection, evaluation, and routing for smart transportation
… strategies. Most cities have established social data networks (i.e., Open Data KC 311 in Kansas City) for residents to report potholes to mitigate the problem. However, current reporting methods for bad road conditions are a burden for the reporter, so these conditions might not be …
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Engineering better social outcomes through requirements management & integrated asset data processing
… can no longer adequately serve. The emergence of data and digital technology has enabled new skills to emerge and offer new possibilities as well as set much higher expectations for the younger generation who have only known lives in the digital age. The data describing the physical properties of …
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Targeting tillage intensity in Michigan soybean systems: On-farm observations and multivariate modeling of grower decision-making with implications for yield and soil carbon
… whereby an individual’s attitude, beliefs, and social status augment their capacity for rational utility maximization. This study aims to illuminate how soybean growers in the State of Michigan select tillage technologies, and the effect of conservation tillage on key measures of agroecological …
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Leaders, followers, and community detection
Communities in social interaction networks or graphs are sets of well-connected, and very often overlapping vertices. Formally, we view any maximal clique of the social network graph as a community. The problem of finding maximal cliques is known to be computationally hard. The goal of this work is …
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Measuring college students' sleep, stress, mental health and wellbeing with wearable sensors and mobile phones
… analyze ambulatory physiological, behavioral and social data from wearable sensors and mobile phones with trait data such as personality, for learning about behaviors and traits that impact human health and wellbeing. This thesis also validates the methodology and tools on a selected subset of the …
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