Taha Yasseri

A large-scale analysis of Grokipedia, the world’s first AI-written encyclopedia, has found that while many Grokipedia articles closely resemble their Wikipedia counterparts, a substantial subset diverged markedly in style, sourcing, and political leaning.

Tomorrow marks 25 years of Wikipedia — a quarter-century of collective knowledge built by millions of volunteers across the globe.

A few months ago, I was invited to write a short response to a question submitted to the AI Helpdesk—a Dutch-language platform “where anyone can receive scientifically reliable and clear answers to questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI).”

Towards the end of each year, I gather statistics on the most viewed Wikipedia articles of the year.

A few years ago, one of our MSc students at the Oxford Internet Institute and I analysed some log data (aka big data) that Khan Academy had kindly shared with us.

This is going to be a short post!

In the months before the pandemic, I was involved in an extensive piece of research into the sex work industry in the UK.

Earlier this month our paper titled “Islamophobes are not all the same!

This Friday, Wikipedia turns 20 and I thought I should do something about it!

Museums and galleries in the UK are opening their doors to the public in July.

When Dominic Cummings made a public statement to explain why he drove 260 miles to stay with his parents during the coronavirus lockdown, the prime Minister’s chief adviser made an assertion that initially went largely unnoticed: For years, I have warned…

About a year ago, Sage Campus contacted me with an offer that I could not refuse!

Earlier this year I had the honour of being invited to give a TEDx talk in Thessaloniki.

In a recent work, we studied music listenership patterns of 1.3 million online users to measure the direct and indirect effects of live concerts on song plays.

Earlier this year, we finally published the results of our project on Everyday Sexism.

In a recent paper, we studied 40 stock markets from top GDP countries to analyse the correlations and connections between them.

Many think that corruption is a result of wealth or the lack of it.

Wikipedia is arguably the number one source of information online for the speakers of many languages.

I’m very happy that a favourite!!

About two months ago, a paper of ours with the above title appeared on Frontiers in Digital Humanities (Big Data).

About a month ago, we finished our 2-year long EC-Horizon2020 project on Human-Machine Networks (HUMANE).

We finished our project on Collective Memory in the Digital Age: Understanding “Forgetting” on the Internet last summer, but our last paper just came out on Science Advances last week.

Collaboration is among the most fundamental social behaviours.

The role of social media in shaping the new politics is undeniable.

Our new paper titled “Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia” has finally appeared on PLOS One.

I am very happy to announce our new series of seminars at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), called “The OII Colloquia (TOC)“.

I am very happy to see that our eBook titled “At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science” is finally out, and ready for free download.

Originally posted on HUMANE blog by Milena Tsvetkova.

This has become a common knowledge that certain lives matter more, when it comes to media coverage and public attention to natural or manmade disasters.

Jonathan and I recently published a paper titled “Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models“ in EPJ Data Science.

Since I launched this blog, I always wanted to write something about the dangers of big data!

I already have written about the Wikipedia-Shapps story.

Some have called the forthcoming UK general election a Social Media Election.

Citizen Science is research undertaken by professional scientists and members of the public collaboratively.

Will the real Grant Shapps please stand up?

… If the invention of telescopes provided us with the ability to understand how galaxies behave, and the microscope allowed us to find the cure of such a huge amount of diseases, this century we are going to understand much more about the social systems b…

The bitterness of the tragedy is the same, what has changed is the way that information spreads.

IMPORTANT NOTE: this post does not aim at predicting the results of any election.

What are the most controversial topics in Wikipedia?

Among all the interesting events taking place today, one is the Closing Ceremony of 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

“The Newtown School shooting is a school shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, Connecticut. 24 persons are reported to have been killed, including 17 children.”