social network analysis

Assessing Target Audiences of Digital Public Health Campaigns: A Computational Approach

As a larger proportion of society participates in social media, public health organizations are increasingly using digital campaigns to engage and educate their target audiences. Computational methods such as social network analysis and machine …

Turning Narrative Descriptions of Individual Behavior into Network Visualization and Analysis: Example of Terrorist Group Dynamics

Social networks play a critical role in the formation of criminal and radical groups. However, understanding of these formations relies on difficult to collect data. We present an approach where narrative data from the trial of the 1995 Paris Metro …

Patterns of Twitter behavior among networks of cannabis dispensaries in California

Twitter represents a social media platform through which medical cannabis dispensaries can rapidly promote and advertise a multitude of retail products. Yet, to date, no studies have systematically evaluated Twitter behavior among dispensaries and …