Tag: social networks

Can You Tell Someone’s Gender Based on Tweets?

Peng Wang

Predicting someone’s demographic attributes based on limited amount of information available is always a hot topic. It is common to use people’s name, ethnicity, location, and pictures for training models that can tell gender. Can you actually guess someone’s gender only based on what they share on Twitter? We will explore this using NLP techniques in this article.

At the end we conclude that it is quite a challenge to predict someone’s gender only using a single tweet. However, by combining prediction results from many tweets of the same person (similar to ensemble techniques like bagging), we may reach much better performance.

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Who Are the Top HR Analytics Influencers on Twitter

Social Network
Peng Wang
Visualizing Twitter social network of HRanalytics

Everyday people use social media such as Twitter to share thoughts and ideas. People with similar interests come together and interact on the online platform by re-sharing or replying posts they like. By studying how people interact on social networks, it will help us understand how information is distributed and identify who are the most prominent figures.

In our last post, we did a topic modeling study using Twitter feeds #HRTechConf and trained a model to learn the topics of all the tweets. In this article, we will analyze Twitter user interactions and visualize it in an interactive graph. 

Social Network is a network of social interactions and personal relationships. 

Oxford Dictionary
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Organizational network analysis – an experimental study

Organizational network. Credit: Wellesley Institute
Peng Wang

In every organization, people build and rely on informally-built networks seeking for information, advice, and collaborations. Often the invisible people networks are different from the formal organization hierarchy. Uncovering the informal but effective networks and understanding how information in the organization flows become crucial and enormously valuable to organization leaders.

In this article, we will briefly explain what Organization Network Analysis (ONA) is about and how to effectively measure. A small sample dataset is used to demonstrate our ONA experiment and network graph.

This post is part of a series of people analytics experiments:

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