Predicting ethnicity with first names in online social media networks
Social scientists increasingly use (big) social media data to illuminate long-standing substantive questions in social science research. However, a key challenge of analyzing such data is their lower level of individual detail compared to highly detailed survey data. This limits the scope of substan...
Main Authors: | Bas Hofstra, Niek C de Schipper |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
SAGE Publishing
2018-03-01
|
Series: | Big Data & Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718761141 |
Similar Items
-
Name and sign: First name as a symbol of ethnic identity of Vojvodina Germans
by: Krel Aleksandar, et al.
Published: (2014-01-01) -
Ethnicity and population structure in personal naming networks.
by: Pablo Mateos, et al.
Published: (2011-01-01) -
Using First Name Information to Improve Race and Ethnicity Classification
by: Ioan Voicu
Published: (2018-01-01) -
User Identification Based on Display Names Across Online Social Networks
by: Yongjun Li, et al.
Published: (2017-01-01) -
Origin of ethnic name Buryat
by: Bulat R. Zoriktuev
Published: (2016-06-01)