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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congrats!! Though sad to see you leave the US.

Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jul 21

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download!

📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter

doi.org

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jul 17

We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details!

Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now live: “Declining information quality under new platform governance” by Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/decl...

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wrote a new blog post on my experience using Claude Code to do data analysis with lessons I learned. I think it's a paradigm shift. Link: open.substack.com/pub/yang3kc/...

Claude Code is secretly an excellent data analysis agent

How I vide code papers with it

open.substack.com

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jun 19

Great report on the worldwide news landscape 2025. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

Digital News Report 2025

The most comprehensive study of news consumption, covering 48 markets around the world.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · Jun 15

An astronomical theme is emerging for this great #ica25 session as I'm also looking forward to presenting one of the new tools from our own @internetobservatory.org.au. Please come and join us this afternoon as we chart the constellations of public communication 🔭🌠. Note this is in the GRAND Hyatt

Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jun 15

Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jun 15

Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jun 11

Attending #ICA this week. Let’s catch up 😀

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congratulations!!!

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jun 2

Congrats!!!

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jun 2

A command I found particularly useful in data analysis: data_frame.sample(10). Repeat it a few times, and you can get a sense of what's in your data frame.

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · Jun 1

Search Google AI model directly: google.com/search?q={qu... . Key is the "udm=50" part, not sure what it means.

Google Search

google.com

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kayo mimizuka @kmzkk.bsky.social · May 31

The age of mass data access is gone with the sunset of major social media APIs. DSA-mandated data access programs sparked optimism, but do they provide adequate data access? We conducted a survey (180) + interview (19) study & the preprint is available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 19

Thank you for the feedback!

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 19

Cool study!

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 19

We document the researchers' desired data access and provide recommendations for platforms, researchers, and policymakers.

Podcast: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d33...

With the amazing Kayo Mimizuka, @m-dot-brown.bsky.social, and @jolukito.bsky.social .

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Post-Post-API Age: Studying Digital Platforms in Scant Data Access Times

Over the past decade, data provided by digital platforms has informed substantial research in HCI to understand online human interaction and communication. Following the closure of major social media ...

arxiv.org

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 19

Specifically, we identify a number of obstacles researchers face 🔒:
- Lack of awareness/clarity
- Complex/burdensome application processes
- Arbitrary/opaque rejections
- Unreliable/low-quality infra and data
- Exclusion of non-academic and Global South researchers

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 19

[New WP] With the closure of major social media APIs and the new data access mandates under DSA, we enter what we call the "post-post-API" era. But have researchers obtained the data they need? Our recent survey (180) + interview (19) study suggests a stark reality.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 15

We will be at #WebSci2025 next Tuesday to give a thorough introduction to NIO. Come and check it out if you are interested!

David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · May 15

@pranavgoel.bsky.social & Kaicheng Yang

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 14

I'm releasing the v2.0 version of my guide on using LLM (mainly OpenAI models) for computational social science tasks. Major changes:
- Adopt the new Responses API.
- Better handling of the structured output.

Link: github.com/yang3kc/llm_...
Please star if you find it useful~

GitHub - yang3kc/llm_for_css: Guide on how to use LLMs for computational social science research

Guide on how to use LLMs for computational social science research - yang3kc/llm_for_css

github.com

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 7

Congrats to @baottruong.bsky.social and @matthewdeverna.com !!!

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · May 7

Congrats!!!

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 30

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.

We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars.

CSV of table:
Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value
Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075"
Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113"
Engineering,94,"$33,472,485"
Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740"
Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312"
Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738"
STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063"
"Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904"
"Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

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Ozgur Can Seckin @ozgurcanseckin.bsky.social · Apr 18

Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate Bluesky’s journey from an invitation only platform with a few thousands of users to reaching 30 million users in terms of user activity and network growth.

📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902
💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris...
💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...

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