Research and Publications
Comments written for the Channel News Asia, with inputs based on primary research from Dr. Saifuddin Ahmed Parts of the riot were planned online on Facebook etc - why wasn't anything done? This time the call for rioting came from the man himself, from a video posted to social media, so it's not necessary to... Continue Reading →
(by Sean Fischer, Kokil Jaidka, and Yphtach Lelkes) Portland, OR became the object of national attention in July as the standoff between federal agents and protesters reached its climax. National attention to the conflict in Portland was awakened by the New York Times on July 17. Search interest for the topic peaked on July 20th.... Continue Reading →
Post coming soon. Inspired by Dr. Amy J Ko and her work: https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/studying-programming-language-learning-a-3-year-recap-bda469e5be04
We made a cool poster so of course, that deserves a new blogpost š Collaborative creativity. If I wasn't organizing the workshop, I'd love to explore the CL-Aff Diplomacy dataset and try out some ideas. But you don't have to worry about organizing it. So why don't you sign up! Full CFP is somewhere here:... Continue Reading →
written for Channel News Asia in October 2020 , with inputs and primary research results provided by Dr. Saifuddin Ahmed How would you describe President Trump's use of social media, has it done more harm than good? Social media is the core communication tool for Trump and the Trump White House. In fact, even since... Continue Reading →
This was one of most interesting and challenging datasets I explored. The original dataset was collected by a brilliant team of researchers over at CMU. If you want to see how awesome they are, check out their video describing the data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVAAhIUtf9U&ab_channel=JordanBoyd-Graber Here's the description provided by Jordan Boyd-Graber: Machine learning techniques to detect deception... Continue Reading →
This paper is out! Data collection was intense... four laptops/PCs connected to VPN, nearly three hundred thousand queries, and millions of search results. And, after Sean's expert dplyr munging, we have a Nature Human Behavior paper. Worth it, I say! š Data collection! Picture taken in April of 2019 The paper is at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00954-0 Fischer,... Continue Reading →
My recommended reading for students looking to explore disclosure on social media and its relationship with well-being. Created this for a student today, but could be helpful for others. Image from The Washington Post Iād say read the first item under each heading, and go to the second one only if it further interests you.... Continue Reading →
I was helping a friend of mine figure out how Wikipedia works, and I made this self-learning tutorial. It compares stuff you can do with the source editing and the visual editing mode, and when you'd want to prefer the former over the latter (usually when you want to reuse one of the popular templates,... Continue Reading →
Jaidka, K., Giorgi, S., Schwartz, H. A., Kern, M. L., Ungar, L. H., & Eichstaedt, J. C. (2020). Estimating geographic subjective well-being from twitter: a comparison of dictionary and data-driven language methods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the COVID-19 era that we are living in today, social media posts can help us... Continue Reading →
