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Sentiment in New York City: A High Resolution Spatial and Temporal View Karla Z. Bertrand, Maya Bialik, Kawandeep Virdee, Andreas Gros, Yaneer Bar-Yam http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5010v1 ( link to PDF full text ) Measuring public sentiment is a key task for researchers and policymakers alike. The explosion of available social media data allows for a more time-sensitive and geographically specific analysis than ever before. In this paper we analyze data from the micro-blogging site Twitter and generate a sentiment map of New York City. We develop a classifier specifically tuned for...

A recent introductory talk on the problem that consciousness and qualia presents to physicalism by Frank C. Jackson.

Welcome to wonderland: the influence of the size and shape of a virtual hand on the perceived size and shape of virtual objects. PLoS One . 2013;8(7):e68594 Authors: Linkenauger SA, Leyrer...

Using avatars to model weight loss behaviors: participant attitudes and technology development. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2013;7(4):1057-65 Authors: Napolitano MA, Hayes S, Russo G, Muresu...

What Color is My Arm? Changes in Skin Color of an Embodied Virtual Arm Modulates Pain Threshold. Front Hum Neurosci. 2013;7:438 Authors: Martini M, Perez-Marcos D, Sanchez-Vives MV It...