Association between volume and momentum of online searches and real-world collective unrest

Qi, Hong; Manrique, Pedro D.; Johnson, Daniela; Restrepo, Elvira María; Johnson, Neil F.

doi:10.1016/j.rinp.2016.07.008

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“…In each case, they find that the combination of the volume and momentum of searches from Google Trends surrounding pairs of simple keywords, tailored for the specific cultural setting, provide useful indicators of periods of civil unrest. Qi et al [228] study online search activity from Google Trends surrounding the topics of social unrest over several countries in Latin America from 2011 to 2014. They find that the volume and momentum of searches surrounding mass protest language, can detect-and may even pre-empt-the macroscopic on-street activity.…”

Section: Web Search Queriesmentioning

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Measuring objective and subjective well-being: dimensions and data sources

Voukelatou

Gabrielli

Miliou

et al. 2020

Int J Data Sci Anal

174

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Well-being is an important value for people’s lives, and it could be considered as an index of societal progress. Researchers have suggested two main approaches for the overall measurement of well-being, the objective and the subjective well-being. Both approaches, as well as their relevant dimensions, have been traditionally captured with surveys. During the last decades, new data sources have been suggested as an alternative or complement to traditional data. This paper aims to present the theoretical background of well-being, by distinguishing between objective and subjective approaches, their relevant dimensions, the new data sources used for their measurement and relevant studies. We also intend to shed light on still barely unexplored dimensions and data sources that could potentially contribute as a key for public policing and social development.

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Section: Web Search Queriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring objective and subjective well-being: dimensions and data sources

Voukelatou

Gabrielli

Miliou

et al. 2020

Int J Data Sci Anal

174

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“…Additionally, the volume and momentum of web search queries, such as Google Trends, provide useful indicators of periods of civil unrest over several countries [59,60], and contribute to capturing a decline in domestic violence calls per capita when immigration enforcement awareness increases [61].…”

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Understanding peace through the world news

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Peace is a principal dimension of well-being and is the way out of inequity and violence. Thus, its measurement has drawn the attention of researchers, policymakers, and peacekeepers. During the last years, novel digital data streams have drastically changed the research in this field. The current study exploits information extracted from a new digital database called Global Data on Events, Location, and Tone (GDELT) to capture peace through the Global Peace Index (GPI). Applying predictive machine learning models, we demonstrate that news media attention from GDELT can be used as a proxy for measuring GPI at a monthly level. Additionally, we use explainable AI techniques to obtain the most important variables that drive the predictions. This analysis highlights each country’s profile and provides explanations for the predictions, and particularly for the errors and the events that drive these errors. We believe that digital data exploited by researchers, policymakers, and peacekeepers, with data science tools as powerful as machine learning, could contribute to maximizing the societal benefits and minimizing the risks to peace.

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“…In addition, researchers, combine social media data with mobile phone records to infer human migration and evaluate migration events [18,75] and use GPS data, combined with subjective and objective data, to study perceived safety [21]. Additionally, the volume and momentum of web search queries, such as Google Trends, provide useful indicators of periods of civil unrest over several countries [63,64], and contribute in capturing a decline in domestic violence calls per capita when immigration enforcement awareness increases [54]. Moreover, crowdsourced data are used to map violence against women [45], for police-involved killings [59], and for analyzing the international crisis between India and Pakistan for the dispute over Kashmir [60].…”

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Understanding peacefulness through the world news

Voukelatou¹,

Miliou²,

Giannotti³

et al. 2021

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Peacefulness is a principal dimension of wellbeing for all humankind and is the way out of inequity and every single form of violence. Thus, its measurement has lately drawn the attention of researchers and policymakers. During the last years, novel digital data streams have drastically changed the research in this field. In the current study, we exploit information extracted from Global Data on Events, Location, and Tone (GDELT) digital news database, to capture peacefulness through the Global Peace Index (GPI). Applying predictive machine learning models, we demonstrate that news media attention from GDELT can be used as a proxy for measuring GPI at a monthly level. Additionally, we use the SHAP methodology to obtain the most important variables that drive the predictions. This analysis highlights each country's profile and provides explanations for the predictions overall, and particularly for the errors and the events that drive these errors. We believe that digital data exploited by Social Good researchers, policy-makers, and peace-builders, with data science tools as powerful as machine learning, could contribute to maximize the societal benefits and minimize the risks to peacefulness.

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Association between volume and momentum of online searches and real-world collective unrest

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Measuring objective and subjective well-being: dimensions and data sources

Measuring objective and subjective well-being: dimensions and data sources

Understanding peace through the world news

Understanding peacefulness through the world news

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