Social sciences
Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
Understanding how users form and update their opinions through interactions with their friends and neighbors in social networks is a fundamental problem with applications to online advertising, recommendations, and marketing. In our research, we carried…
Online and Social Media Data as a Flawed Continuous Panel Survey
If search and Twitter data are to be treated as a survey, they would follow a very peculiar methodology: participation is a time-varying, demographically biased sample of the population, participants are effectively continuously answering different…
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
One of the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in our daily lives is a simple, under-appreciated tool—one that has been available to us since childhood. Questioning—deeply, imaginatively, “beautifully”—can help us identify…
Big Dream Trailer #1
Big Dream is documentary film that follows the stories of seven young women in technology fields around the globe. Each story takes a look at these young women’s ambitions and how they overcome personal challenges…
