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Learning Network Dynamics from Tumblr®: A Search for Influential Users

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Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling (SBP-BRiMS 2017)

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This work offers an original analysis of a unique data set gathered from the blogging website Tumblr by developing and applying a new data driven method for investigating network dynamics. To our knowledge, this is the first effort to analyze the spread of information on Tumblr on a such a large scale, and our method generally applies to networks where nodes have time-evolving states. We start by testing our method on simulated data, then we follow over 50,000 blogs on Tumblr over a year of activity to determine not only which blogs are influential, but more importantly, how these blogs spread their content.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 92092, USA

    Steven Munn

  2. HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA

    Kang-Yu Ni & Jiejun Xu

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  1. Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA

    Dongwon Lee

  2. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Yu-Ru Lin

  3. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Nathaniel Osgood

  4. United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, USA

    Robert Thomson

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Munn, S., Ni, KY., Xu, J. (2017). Learning Network Dynamics from Tumblr®: A Search for Influential Users. In: Lee, D., Lin, YR., Osgood, N., Thomson, R. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60240-0_24

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