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Activity Number: 154
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 10, 2015 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: SSC
Abstract #314307 View Presentation
Title: Modeling Dynamics in a Blog Network
Author(s): David Banks*
Companies: Duke University
Keywords: political blogs ; dynamic network ; topic model ; mixed-membership block model ; hierarchical Bayes
Abstract:

U.S. poltical blog posts form a dynamic network of documents, since blogs frequently link to other blogs in order to comment upon the opinions of others. This talk describes a novel model for the dynamics of this network, using data scraped from all U.S. political blog posts in 2012. Important features of the linkage behavior include identification of the topics being discussed, whether or not the bloggers have similar political views, whether or not there has been a recent link between the sites, and the relative prestige of the bloggers, as measured by Technorati.


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