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This work offers an original analysis of a unique data set gathered from the blogging website Tumblr by developing and applying a new data driven method for investigating network dynamics. To our knowledge, this is the first effort to analyze the spread of information on Tumblr on a such a large scale, and our method generally applies to networks where nodes have time-evolving states. We start by testing our method on simulated data, then we follow over 50,000 blogs on Tumblr over a year of activity to determine not only which blogs are influential, but more importantly, how these blogs spread their content.
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Munn, S., Ni, KY., Xu, J. (2017). Learning Network Dynamics from Tumblr®: A Search for Influential Users. In: Lee, D., Lin, YR., Osgood, N., Thomson, R. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60240-0_24
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