Friday, April 12 / 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM Lone Star H (Level 3)

Session 128
Using Social Media in Population Research

Chair: Pil H. Chung, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Tyler McCormick, University of Washington, Seattle

1. Correlated Impulses: Using Facebook Interests to Improve Predictions of Crime Rates in Urban AreasMasoomali Fatehkia, Northeastern University; Dan O'Brien, Northeastern University; Ingmar Weber , Qatar Computing Research Institute.

2. Predicting Gender Gaps in Internet Use Using Facebook and Google Advertising Audience EstimatesReham Al Tamime, University of Southampton; Ridhi Kashyap , University of Oxford; Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute; Masoomali Fatehkia, Northeastern University.

3. Segregation and Sentiment: Estimating Refugee Segregation and Its Effects Using Digital Trace DataNeal Marquez , University of Washington, Seattle; Kiran Garimella, Qatar Computing Research Institute; Ott Toomet, University of Tartu; Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute; Emilio Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

4. Combining the Annual Population Survey and Facebook Advertising Data for Estimating the European Migrant Population in the UKFrancesco Rampazzo , University of Southampton; Jakub Bijak, University of Southampton; Agnese Vitali, University of Southampton; Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute; Emilio Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

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