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David: How about predicting epidemics?Sarah: Only if we knew the location of Twitter users!
David: How about predicting the location of Twitter users?Sarah: Yes, Let’s do that. Let’s exploit language!
bludger means someone really lazy.
Language is geographically biased. If a Twitter user uses“bludger”, she is probably from Sydney.
Sonny: What else can we do with language?Skippy: We can measure distant classroom engagement!
Student’s language
classroom’s average language
converging diverging
something bad happened here
People’s language becomes biased toward their communitiesgradually.
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