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Some press about our work
Last press mentions by Googl news
.
Some of the older media articles:
Using Algorithms to Determine Character
New York Times. July 2015.
Proactive policing.
The Economist. April 2015.
Algorithm ‘identifies future trolls from just five posts’
. The Guardian. April 2015.
Researchers Develop a Troll-Hunting Algorithm
. Popular Science. April 2015.
How a Troll-Spotting Algorithm Learned Its Anti-antisocial Trade
. Technology Review. April 2015.
Science Says You Should Ignore Internet Trolls
. Time. April 2015.
Scientists have figured out how to tell when someone is an online troll
. The Washington Post. April 2015.
‘Troll hunting’ algorithm could make web a better place
. Wired. April 2015.
Study of MOOCs Suggests Dropping the Label ‘Dropout’
by The Chronicle of Higher Education (Jun 2014).
Why you'll share this article (or not)
by San Francisco Chronicle (Apr 2014).
The Curious Nature of Sharing Cascades on Facebook
by MIT Technology Review (Apr 2014).
How to Succeed on Reddit
by Time (Sep 2013)
How to craft the perfect Reddit posting
by Forbes (Sep 2013)
Beer Experts Say These Are The 20 Best Beers In The World
by Business Insider. (Sep 2013)
What Reddit likes: Things that make a meme explode
by New Scientist. (Jul 2013)
Big questions for big data: Stanford’s Jure Leskovec
by Stanford University School of Engineering. (Apr 2013)
Interview about my research
by a blogger and technical evangelist
Robert Scoble
. (Jan 2013)
MIT Technology review
on
Algorithm predicts circles of friends using contacts data
. (Nov 2012)
Wired UK
on
Algorithm can know your friendship circles better than you do
. (Nov 2012)
The Wall Street Journal
on
Decoding Our Chatter
. (Sept 2011)
Spark on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
on
Jure Leskovec on predictive social network analysis
. (Sept 2011)
New York Times
on the
Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don't
. (Feb 2011)
MIT Technology Review
on the
Patterns of Temporal Variation in Online Media
. (Jan 2011)
New York Times
on the
MemeTracker
project that builds maps of what the Web is talking about. (Jul 2009)
The
Pew Foundation
used the
MemeTracker
methodology in their analysis of the press coverage of the Great Depression.
Washington Post
(we made it to the
front page
!) on our study of the small world phenomenon and the six degrees of separation using Microsoft Instant Messenger.
Follow ups by
MSNBC
,
Guardian
,
BBC
,
Nature News
,
The Wall Street Journal
, and many others.
MSNBC
on ranking blogs and detecting outbreaks in networks.
MIT Technology Review
on the dynamics of viral marketing.
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