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Massively Empowered Classroom: Enhancing Technical Education in India

Ed Cutrell, Srinath Bala, Chetan Bansal, Andrew Cross, Naren Datha, Aldo John, Rahul Kumar, Madhusudan Parthasarathy, Siddharth Prakash, Sriram Rajamani, Bill Thies

MSR-TR-2013-127 | December 2013

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Prominent Features of Rumor Propagation in Online Social Media

Sejeong Kwon, Meeyoung Cha, Kyomin Jung, Wei Chen, Yajun Wang

In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’2013), Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., Dec. 2013. | December 2013

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Tweet Entity Linking Data: IE-driven and IR-driven sets

In this dataset, we release the labeled data for people to evaluate and compare entity linking systems on tweets.

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Understanding jugaad: ICTD and the tensions of appropriation, innovation and utility

Nimmi Rangaswamy, Melissa Densmore

Proceedings of ICTD 2013, the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Cape Town, South Africa | December 2013

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Computational social science and social computing

Winter Mason, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach

Mach Learn | November 2013, Vol 95: pp. 257-260

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The First-Order Approach to Merger Analysis

Sonia Jaffe, E. Glen Weyl

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | November 2013

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Nature of Information, People, and Relationships in Digital Social Networks

Rakesh Agrawal

MSR-TR-2013-115 | November 2013

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The use of Melodic Scales in Bollywood Music: An Empirical Study

Hindi film music, which is commonly referred to as Bollywood music, is one of the most popular forms of music in the world today. One of the reasons for its popularity has been the willingness…

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Facebook in the university workplace

Aurora Francois, Aparna Hebbani, Sean Rintel

Media International Australia | November 2013

Francois, A., Hebbani, A. & Rintel, S. (2013). Facebook in the university workplace. Media International Australia, 149, 15-27.

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Estimating the Relative Utility of Networks for Predicting User Activities

Nina Mishra, Daniel M. Romero, Panayiotis Tsaparas

CIKM | October 2013