Social Catalysts: Characterizing People Who Spark Conversations Among Others

Martin Saveski, Farshad Kooti, Sylvia Morelli Vitousek, Carlos Diuk, Bryce Bartlett, and Lada Adamic.

This repository contains replication code for the paper, "Social Catalysts: Characterizing People Who Spark Conversations Among Others" published in CSCW'21.

List of files

• post_matching.ipynb - code for matching catalyst to non-catalyst posts posted by users with the same number of friends.
• user_matching.ipynb - code for matching catalyst to non-catalyst users who posted the same number of posts and the closest number of friends.
• analysis.ipynb - code to replicate all figures in the paper.

Cite as

@article{saveski2021catalysts,
    author = {Saveski, Martin and Kooti, Farshad and Morelli Vitousek, Sylvia and Diuk, Carlos and Bartlett, Bryce and Adamic, Lada},
    title = {Social Catalysts: Characterizing People Who Spark Conversations Among Others},
    journal = {Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.},
    year = {2021},
    volume = {5},
    number = {CSCW2},
    articleno = {292},
    doi = {10.1145/3476023},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}    
}

License

This analysis code is licensed under the MIT license found in the LICENSE file.