This paper describes initial efforts to use open-source data to capture knowledge about forced migration in Iraq. Our goal is to understand the connection between open-source data and possible leading indicators of forced ...

Twitter is becoming an important tool in medicine, but there is little information on Twitter metrics. In order to recommend best practices for information dissemination and diffusion, it is important to first study and ...

Animal tool use is of inherent interest given its relationship to intelligence, innovation and cultural behaviour. Here we investigate whether Shark Bay bottlenose dolphins that use marine sponges as hunting tools (spongers) ...

The enormous data sharing and data availability on the Internet provides opportunities for new services tailored to extract, search, aggregate, and mine data in meaningful ways, At the same time, it poses challenges with ...

As we become a more 'connected' society, a greater need exists to understand complex network structures. While many in the field of data mining analyze network data, most models of networks are straightforward-focusing on ...

Community structure is ubiquitous in biological networks. There has been an increased interest in unraveling the community structure of biological systems as it may provide important insights into a system’s functional ...

Visualizations can potentially misrepresent information if they ignore or hide the uncertainty that are usually present in the data. While various techniques and tools exist for visualizing uncertainty in scientific ...

To help users better understand the potential risks associated with publishing data publicly, as well as the quantity and sensitivity of information that can be obtained by combining data from various online sources, ...

Most networks contain embedded communities or groups that impact the overall gathering and dissemination of ideas and information. These groups consist of important or prominent individuals who actively participate in ...

This paper investigates information quality as it pertains to observational scientific data. Specifically, we focus on presenting a case study for initial efforts related to data cleansing and data transformation of 20 ...