Computational socioeconomics

J Gao, YC Zhang, T Zhou - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

Universal patterns of long-distance commuting and social assortativity in cities

E Bokányi, S Juhász, M Karsai, B Lengyel - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Millions commute to work every day in cities and interact with colleagues, partners, friends,
and strangers. Commuting facilitates the mixing of people from distant and diverse …

What does investors' online divergence of opinion tell us about stock returns and trading volume?

A Al-Nasseri, FM Ali - Journal of Business Research, 2018 - Elsevier
We analyse 289,443 online tweets from StockTwits and construct a divergence of opinion
(disagreement) indicator for investigating the impact of disagreement on stock returns and …

Assessing socioeconomic status of Twitter users: A survey

D Ghazouani, L Lancieri, H Ounelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Every day, the emotion and opinion of different people across the world are reflected in the
form of short messages using microblogging platforms. Despite the existence of enormous …

Fairness in vulnerable attribute prediction on social media

MG Beiró, K Kalimeri - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022 - Springer
Historically, policymakers and practitioners relied exclusively on survey and census data to
design and plan for assistive interventions; now, social media offer a timely and cost …

A multimodal approach for regional GDP prediction using social media activity and historical information

J Ortega-Bastida, AJ Gallego, JR Rico-Juan… - Applied Soft …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work proposes a multimodal approach with which to predict the regional Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) by combining historical GDP values with the embodied information …

Income-related spatial concentration of individual social capital in cities

ÁJ Kovács, S Juhász, E Bokányi… - … and Planning B …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social connections that span across diverse urban neighborhoods can support prosperity by
mobilizing social capital. However, there is limited evidence on the spatial structure of …

Studying unemployment effects on mental health: social media versus the traditional approach

S Ahmed, AE Rajput, A Sarirete, A Aljaberi… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Social media, traditionally reserved for social exchanges on the Internet, has been
increasingly used by researchers to gain insight into different facets of human life …

Nowcasting unemployment rate during the COVID-19 pandemic using Twitter data: the case of South Africa

ZM Nia, A Asgary, N Bragazzi, B Mellado… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The global economy has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries are
experiencing a severe and destructive recession. A significant number of firms and …

Using machine learning for prediction of factors affecting crimes in Saudi Arabia

A Alsaqabi, F Aldhubayi, S Albahli - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Crime rates are expected to increase in the whole world as the growth of many complex
factors like: unemployment, poverty, weather, violent ideologies and religion and etc …