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Measuring algorithmically infused societies

Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Alexandra Olteanu, Emre Kiciman, Noshir Contractor, Tina Eliassi-Rad

Nature | June 2021, Vol 595: pp. 197-204

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Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science

Jake Hofman, Duncan J Watts, Susan Athey, Filiz Garip, Thomas L Griffiths, Jon Kleinberg, Helen Margetts, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matthew J Salganik, Simine Vazire, Alessandro Vespignani, Tal Yarkoni

Nature | June 2021, Vol 595(7866): pp. 181-188

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Beyond Business: A Poster Contrasting CEO Activism on Social Media in India and the United States

Arshia Arya, Shehla Rashid Shora, Joyojeet Pal

The Compass | June 2021, pp. 432-436

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New Future of Work: Driving innovation via cross-company research with Jaime Teevan and Brent Hecht

June 24, 2021

In this episode of The New Future of Work series of the podcast, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht of the Experiences and Devices group in Microsoft share how an…

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American Politicians Diverge Systematically, Indian Politicians do so Chaotically: Text Embeddings as a Window into Party Polarization

Amar Budhiraja, Ankur Sharma, Rahul Agrawal, Monojit Choudhury, Joyojeet Pal

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | June 2021

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Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence

Analyses of text corpora over time can reveal trends in beliefs, interest, and sentiment about a topic. We focus on views expressed about artificial intelligence (AI) in the New York Times over a 30-year period.…

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