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ArticlePloS one2021

Upscaling human activity data: A statistical ecology approach.

Anna Tovo, Samuele Stivanello, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis, Stefano Favaro, Marco Formentin

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Anna TovoDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei", Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3834-3749
Samuele StivanelloDipartimento di Matematica "Tullio Levi-Civita", Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy.
Amos MaritanDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei", Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy.
Samir SuweisDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei", Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy.
Stefano FavaroDipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche", Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Marco FormentinDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei", Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Big data require new techniques to handle the information they come with. Here we consider four datasets (email communication, Twitter posts, Wikipedia articles and Gutenberg books) and propose a novel statistical framework to predict global statistics from random samples. More precisely, we infer the number of senders, hashtags and words of the whole dataset and how their abundances (i.e. the popularity of a hashtag) change through scales from a small sample of sent emails per sender, posts per hashtag and word occurrences. Our approach is grounded on statistical ecology as we map inference of human activities into the unseen species problem in biodiversity. Our findings may have applications to resource management in emails, collective attention monitoring in Twitter and language learning process in word databases.

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Big DataDatasets as TopicComputer Communication NetworksElectronic MailHumansSocial Media

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PMID34197484
PMCPMC8248688

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