ingmarweber · Research Director for Social Computing · ✭✭

In a lot of our work, we're using social media data as a feature to predict something else such as internet access gender gaps, or poverty rates, or migration rates. As such, we're often ok with &quo… (View Post)

The only role I can think of that hasn't been mentioned yet are patient advocacy groups or other representatives of the actual groups who will hopefully benefit. (View Post)

@Kathleen_Hamrick - Using data from the advertising platforms partly solves some of these issues, as long as no individual level data is required. For platforms with a real name policy (e.g. Facebook… (View Post)

I'm flagging other work by Munmun De Choudhury (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z9Pfp6UAAAAJ) and will invite her to this forum. She's one of the authors on the study you mentioned and an e… (View Post)

@Shashi What is easy to collect is gender-disaggregated data on where Facebook [and/or Instagram] users are (not) interested in certain topics, such as mental health. That can be done with global cov… (View Post)