economics, psychology, policy

Full download available from the arXiv.org website: "I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper...

A story on China Daily USA came to my attention this evening: about Zhong Lin, a graduate of Tsinghua University; and Zhao Siqi, from Hong ...

Is there anything that we cannot learn from Twitter? It seems from a study of 509 million posts (wonder what p-value they used for the tes...

Some data related stories in the news recently: Central Statistics Office investigates early release of data on Twitter Opening our processe...

Using Twitter for macro-level analysis has been discussed on the blog before: (i) Sample Selection, Twitter's Public Timeline, TweetSca...

The Analytic Bridge blog describes an exercise conducted by Life Analytics where 10000 tweets containing the word economy were collected wi...

will largely be used to distribute information about upcoming GI events. link here

more or less converted but this is an interim assessment. some potentially useful aspects - many major organisations now message about semin...

Tyler Cowen started an interesting discussion on the potential utility of Twitter. I am sceptical enough about it's utility for people ...

Does Facebook hurt your grades ? This may be the question that parents everywhere will soon be asking their children. There is the argument ...