Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

Early prediction of seasonal epidemics such as influenza may reduce their impact in daily
lives. Nowadays, the web can be used for surveillance of diseases. Search engines and …

A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

A growing social science literature has used Twitter and Facebook to study political and
social phenomena including for election forecasting and tracking political conversations …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

The extensive adoption of business analytics (BA) has brought financial gains and
increased efficiencies. However, these advances have simultaneously drawn attention to …

The widespread popularity of Pokémon GO presents the first opportunity to observe the
geographic effects of location-based gaming at scale. This paper reports the results of a …

Who is responsible for protest mobilization? Models of disease and information diffusion
suggest that those central to a social network (the core) should have a greater ability to …

Timely understanding of affected areas during disasters is essential for the implementation
of emergency response activities. As one of the low-cost and information-rich volunteer …

While there is an extensive literature regarding the benefits of natural environments within
urban settings, there is relatively little statistical research on the correlation of well-being with …