Well-being is an important value for people's lives, and it could be considered as an index of
societal progress. Researchers have suggested two main approaches for the overall …

Text mining in big data analytics is emerging as a powerful tool for harnessing the power of
unstructured textual data by analyzing it to extract new knowledge and to identify significant …

The development of IoT technologies and the massive admiration and acceptance of social
media tools and applications, new doors of opportunity have been opened for using data …

The widespread use of the Internet and the constant increase in users of social media
platforms has made a large amount of textual data available. This represents a valuable …

This article examines restaurant customers' online activity following visits to restaurants.
Differences in customers' opinions based on gender and location are discussed. Sentiment …

Measuring and forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is a long-standing
goal of big-data analytics. Despite the large amount of work addressing this question, there …

Automated sentiment scoring offers relevant empirical information for many political science
applications. However, apart from English language resources, validated dictionaries are …

The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well
established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and …

While periods of war have always seen cultural heritage placed at risk, the recent rise of ISIS
has involved the deliberate targeting of heritage sites as part of a broader strategy towards …

This article addresses the potential role played by social media analysis in promoting
interaction between politicians, bureaucrats, and citizens. We show that in a “Big Data” …