Research report 2011 - Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

Human dynamics in online discussion groups

Authors
Altmann, Eduardo G.
Departments
Otto-Hahn Nachwuchsgruppe – Dynamische Systeme und soziale Dynamik
Summary
The access to internet data allows for unprecedented quantitative investigations of human activities.  An investigation of the communication between thousands of users across more than a decade will be reported here. The statistical analysis of word frequencies provides insights on the interests of the users and also on how language is used and changes.

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