Title: Sensing and Modeling Human Behavior Using Social Media and Mobile Data,
Abstract: In the past years we have witnessed the emergence of the new discipline of
computational social science, which promotes a new data-driven and
computation-based approach to social sciences. In this article we discuss how
the availability of new technologies such as online social media and mobile
smartphones has allowed researchers to passively collect human behavioral data
at a scale and a level of granularity that were just unthinkable some years
ago. We also discuss how these digital traces can then be used to prove (or
disprove) existing theories and develop new models of human behavior.