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Women’s disadvantage: because of who they are, or what they do?
Photo by Christina Morillo from Pexels This is post was originally published on the SpringerOpen blog. Women are marginalized in the high-tech sector, and there are no visible trends of improvement. As women speak up against injustice, it is becoming clearer that the roots of their disadvantage might be deeper than categorical discrimination against them: it…
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What can we learn from billions of food purchases derived from fidelity cards?
This is blog post was originally published in Medium. For your health, what you eat is more important than what you earn. This result comes from our latest project “Poor but Healthy”, which was published in EPJ Data Science, and comes with a @tobi_vierzwo’s stunningly beautiful map of London I invite all of you to explore. Why are we interested in…
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Twitter’s tampered samples: Limitations of big data sampling in social media
Photo by Con Karampelas on Unsplash This blog has been cross-posted from the SpringerOpen blog Despite the many scandals surrounding social media companies and their practices of data sharing, they are still central platforms of opinion formation and public discourse. Therefore, social media data is widely analyzed in academic and applied social research. Twitter has…
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Controlling epidemics using mobile phone data
This blog was crossposted form the SpingerOpen blog. Epidemics represent an important healthcare challenge worldwide. In a world that is so densely populated and more interconnected than ever, it makes increasingly easier for pathogens to propagate. Approaches that can rapidly target subpopulations for surveillance and control are critical for enhancing containment and mitigation processes. The…