2015 year in review
2015 has been an amazing year both on the professional and personal grounds. Here are some of the main things that happened this year: 2015 class of Master in Data Science and Big Data at AFI Escuela I...
View ArticleMore people, more fun: The scaling of events in cities
This is a recent article publish in Medium.com by David Martín-Corral, Manuel Cebrián and myself in which we analyze the super-scaling of touristic attraction (number of events) with population....
View ArticleSearching for someone
From the “Small World Experiment” to the “Red Balloon Challenge,” and beyond We live in a small world, right? But the cost and fragility of navigating it could harm any potential strategy to leverage...
View ArticleRapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity
Yury Kryvasheyeu1, Haohui Chen, Nick Obradovich, Esteban Moro, Pascal Van Hentenryck, James Fowler and Manuel Cebrian, Science Advances 11 Mar 2016: Vol. 2, no. 3, e1500779 [LINK] Summary: Could...
View ArticleNetwork Science for kids!
One of my favorite activities is to teach my field or research network science to high-schoolers. We (together with my colleague Cristina Brändle) have been doing that from our university to the local...
View ArticleTemporal patterns behind the strength of persistent ties
Henry Navarro, Giovanna Miritello, Arturo Canales, Esteban Moro ArXiV 1706.06188, 2017 [LINK] Summary: Could social media data aid in disaster response and damage assessment? Countries face both an...
View ArticleImportant relationships are not bursty
What are the properties of a long-lasting relationship? This important question as intrigued the social scientists during the last decades and has triggered numerous publications, surveys and...
View ArticleMemeSequencer: Sparse Matching for Embedding Image Macros
Abhimanyu Dubey, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan WWW’18 Proceedings of the Web Conference 2018 [LINK] Abstract: The analysis of the creation, mutation, and propagation of social media content...
View ArticleWeather impacts expressed sentiment
Abhimanyu Dubey, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan PLoS ONE 13(4): e0195750 (2018) [LINK] Abstract: We conduct the largest ever investigation into the relationship between meteorological con-...
View ArticleAnalyzing gender inequality through large-scale Facebook advertising data
David Garcia, Yonas Mitike Kassa, Angel Cuevas, Manuel Cebrian, Esteban Moro, Iyad Rahwan, and Ruben Cuevas PNAS June 19, 2018. 201717781 [LINK] Abstract: Online social media are information resources...
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