Flu seasons are unpredictable, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we are in for a bad flu year indicated by the early climb in flu activity. In fact, this is the soonest the flu season has taken off in almost a decade (since the 2003-2004 flu season). Fortunately, the current circulating …
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Dec 18 2012
TOWARD A MULTILEVEL MODEL OF MEME DIFFUSION (M3D)
Click to see the full size image. One of the ongoing problems of tethering information in cyberspace to activity in realspace is the lack of any conceptual model to integrate these domains that tend to scale in very different ways. In an attempt to provide a heuristic and flexible approach to integrating cyberspace with realspace, …
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Nov 06 2012
Can Social Media (Twitter) Predict the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election? Yes, But Not Today!
(by Ming Tsou, November 05, 2012, 11:59pm). mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu, Professor of Geography, San Diego State University) Tomorrow is the election day for the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. Who will win the election? That’s probably the most expensive answer now on the Earth. Hundreds of different “predictions” and “analysis” are available on TVs, Radios, Newspapers, and …
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