458 research outputs found
Detecting Real-World Influence Through Twitter
In this paper, we investigate the issue of detecting the real-life influence
of people based on their Twitter account. We propose an overview of common
Twitter features used to characterize such accounts and their activity, and
show that these are inefficient in this context. In particular, retweets and
followers numbers, and Klout score are not relevant to our analysis. We thus
propose several Machine Learning approaches based on Natural Language
Processing and Social Network Analysis to label Twitter users as Influencers or
not. We also rank them according to a predicted influence level. Our proposals
are evaluated over the CLEF RepLab 2014 dataset, and outmatch state-of-the-art
ranking methods.Comment: 2nd European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC), Sep 2015,
Karlskrona, Swede
A Network Topology Approach to Bot Classification
Automated social agents, or bots, are increasingly becoming a problem on
social media platforms. There is a growing body of literature and multiple
tools to aid in the detection of such agents on online social networking
platforms. We propose that the social network topology of a user would be
sufficient to determine whether the user is a automated agent or a human. To
test this, we use a publicly available dataset containing users on Twitter
labelled as either automated social agent or human. Using an unsupervised
machine learning approach, we obtain a detection accuracy rate of 70%
Community Structure Characterization
This entry discusses the problem of describing some communities identified in
a complex network of interest, in a way allowing to interpret them. We suppose
the community structure has already been detected through one of the many
methods proposed in the literature. The question is then to know how to extract
valuable information from this first result, in order to allow human
interpretation. This requires subsequent processing, which we describe in the
rest of this entry
Detecting Community Influence Echelons in Twitter Network
We study the interactions in a coherent community on Twitter to examine its structure. In particular we examine if thereexists a hierarchical influence structure induced by the interactions which reflect a ranked partition of the users in thecommunity where users retweet (forward) only messages from other users belonging to an equal or higher ranked group.We extract such ranked partition of the community and show it to roughly align with independently constructed influencescore of users in each echelon. Our research suggests that the relationship and forwarding behavior in online microbloggingcommunity is affected by the underlying social influence structure and the understanding of the structure may help us betterpredict the information diffusion on such online communities
The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success
Startup companies solve many of today's most complex and challenging
scientific, technical and social problems, such as the decarbonisation of the
economy, air pollution, and the development of novel life-saving vaccines.
Startups are a vital source of social, scientific and economic innovation, yet
the most innovative are also the least likely to survive. The probability of
success of startups has been shown to relate to several firm-level factors such
as industry, location and the economy of the day. Still, attention has
increasingly considered internal factors relating to the firm's founding team,
including their previous experiences and failures, their centrality in a global
network of other founders and investors as well as the team's size. The effects
of founders' personalities on the success of new ventures are mainly unknown.
Here we show that founder personality traits are a significant feature of a
firm's ultimate success. We draw upon detailed data about the success of a
large-scale global sample of startups. We found that the Big 5 personality
traits of startup founders across 30 dimensions significantly differed from
that of the population at large. Key personality facets that distinguish
successful entrepreneurs include a preference for variety, novelty and starting
new things (openness to adventure), like being the centre of attention (lower
levels of modesty) and being exuberant (higher activity levels). However, we do
not find one "Founder-type" personality; instead, six different personality
types appear, with startups founded by a "Hipster, Hacker and Hustler" being
twice as likely to succeed. Our results also demonstrate the benefits of
larger, personality-diverse teams in startups, which has the potential to be
extended through further research into other team settings within business,
government and research
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