- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/social-media-mining/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:16:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Agarwal co-edits book on social network and social media analysis /news-archive/2017/04/14/agarwal-book-social-network-social-media-analysis/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:16:26 +0000 /news/?p=66815 ... Agarwal co-edits book on social network and social media analysis]]> Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy chair and professor of information science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has co-edited a book on social media mining and social network analysis.聽 The Springer-published book, 鈥淧rediction and Inference from Social Networks and Social Media,鈥 is part of the publisher鈥檚 prestigious Lecture Notes in Social Networks book series. Dr. Jalal Kawash, senior instructor of computer science at the University of Calgary in Canada, and Dr. Tansel 脰zyer, associate professor of computer engineering at TOBB University in Turkey, also were co-editors. This book addresses the challenges of social network and social media analysis in terms of prediction and inference. Its creators tackle these issues by proposing new analysis approaches and by examining methods to mine the vast amount of social content. 鈥淭he book looks at data we get from social media environments and how we can predict behaviors and make inferences in a more accurate way as to avoid the fallacies of big data,鈥 Agarwal said. 鈥淭he chapters also explore how we can develop predictive models that look at the data yet are grounded in theory.鈥 Agarwal, who also is the director of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Center of Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS), is highly respected for his social media research. His recent work included studying how governments and groups such as ISIS use social media to spread deviant messages and affect opinions, behavior, and media coverage. The book is available on and. ]]>