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• Improving Restaurants by Extracting Subtopics from Yelp Reviews 

  Huang, James; Rogers, Stephanie; Joo, Eunkwang (iSchools, 2014-04-04)

  In this paper, we describe latent subtopics discovered from Yelp restaurant reviews by running an online Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm. The goal is to point out demand of customers from a large amount of ...

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• Community Systems, Sensor Monitoring, and the Internet of Things: A Case Study about Feed Denton Community Compost 

  Pasquini, Laura A.; Miller, Andrew J.; Moynihan, Fiachra E.; McLeod, Patrick (iSchools, 2014-04-04)

  This case study provides on the Feed Denton Community Compost Project. This ethnographic research will review how the collecting of social data and implementation of information communication technologies can provide a ...

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• Local Vocal: Where Design Thinking Meets Social Media and Creates Civic Engagement and Social Entrepreneurship 

  Nance, Kinyetta L.; Langston, William K.; Nixon, Christopher (iSchools, 2014-04-04)

  Local Vocal is a web application that uses design thinking and social media to foster collaborative civic engagement and social entrepreneurship to build stronger local communities. Local Vocal provides a platform for ...

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• SentiNets: User Classification Based on Sentiment for Social Causes within a Twitter Network 

  Agarwal, Sneha; Guo, Jinlong; Mishra, Shubhanshu; Phelps, Kirstin; Picco, Johna (iSchools, 2014-04-04)

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• iAnon: Leveraging Social Network Big Data to Mitigate Behavioral Symptoms of Cyberbullying 

  Ashktorab, Zahra; Kumar, Srijan; De, Soham; Golbeck, Jennifer (iSchools, 2014-04-04)

  Because of the widespread use of social networks, it is difficult for victims of cyberbullying to seek refuge from this torment of bullying. Some social networking sites, like ask.fm, enable abusive behavior by allowing ...

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