Capturing Data, Modeling Patterns, Predicting Behavior. Capturing Data, Modeling Patterns, Predicting Behavior - Based on collecting more than 20 million blog posts and news media articles per day, Professor Jure Leskovec discusses how to mine such data to capture and model temporal patterns in the news over a daily time-scale --in particular, the succession of story lines that evolve and compete for attention. He discusses models to quantify the influence of individual media sites on the popularity of news stories and algorithms for inferring hidden networks of information flow.
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