OII | The Strange Way Aircraft Crashes Attract Human Attention on the Web

Published on
7 Jul 2016

Traffic to Wikipedia pages about aircraft crashes varies in unexpected ways, say Ruth García-Gavilanes, Milena Tsvetkova, and Taha Yasseri.

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Dr Taha Yasseri

Former Senior Research Fellow

Taha Yasseri analyses large-scale transactional data to understand human dynamics, collective behaviour, collective intelligence and machine intelligence.

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