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Abdullah Almaatouq
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 18
Citations - 475
Abdullah Almaatouq is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social influence & Unemployment. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 16 publications receiving 331 citations. Previous affiliations of Abdullah Almaatouq include King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration.
Matthew J. Salganik,Ian Lundberg,Alexander T. Kindel,Caitlin Ahearn,Khaled AlGhoneim,Abdullah Almaatouq,Drew Altschul,Jennie E. Brand,Nicole Bohme Carnegie,Ryan James Compton,Debanjan Datta,Thomas Davidson,Anna Filippova,Connor Gilroy,Brian J. Goode,Eaman Jahani,Ridhi Kashyap,Antje Kirchner,Stephen McKay,Allison C. Morgan,Alex Pentland,Kivan Polimis,Louis Raes,Daniel E Rigobon,Claudia V. Roberts,Diana Stanescu,Yoshihiko Suhara,Adaner Usmani,Erik H. Wang,Muna Adem,Abdulla Alhajri,Bedoor K. AlShebli,Redwane Amin,Ryan Amos,Lisa P. Argyle,Livia Baer-Bositis,Moritz Büchi,Bo-Ryehn Chung,William Eggert,Gregory Faletto,Zhilin Fan,Jeremy Freese,Tejomay Gadgil,Josh Gagné,Yue Gao,Andrew Halpern-Manners,Sonia P Hashim,Sonia Hausen,Guanhua He,Kimberly Higuera,Bernie Hogan,Ilana M. Horwitz,Lisa M Hummel,Naman Jain,Kun Jin,David Jurgens,Patrick Kaminski,Areg Karapetyan,Areg Karapetyan,E H Kim,Ben Leizman,Naijia Liu,Malte Möser,Andrew E Mack,Mayank Mahajan,Noah Mandell,Helge Marahrens,Diana Mercado-Garcia,Viola Mocz,Katariina Mueller-Gastell,Ahmed Musse,Qiankun Niu,William Nowak,Hamidreza Omidvar,Andrew Or,Karen Ouyang,Katy M. Pinto,Ethan Porter,Kristin E. Porter,Crystal Qian,Tamkinat Rauf,Anahit Sargsyan,Thomas Schaffner,Landon Schnabel,Bryan Schonfeld,Ben Sender,Jonathan D Tang,Emma Tsurkov,Austin van Loon,Onur Varol,Onur Varol,Xiafei Wang,Zhi Wang,Julia Wang,Flora Wang,Samantha Weissman,Kirstie Whitaker,Kirstie Whitaker,Maria Wolters,Wei Lee Woon,James M. Wu,Catherine Wu,Kengran Yang,Jingwen Yin,Bingyu Zhao,Chenyun Zhu,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Barbara E. Engelhardt,Moritz Hardt,Dean Knox,Karen Levy,Arvind Narayanan,Brandon M. Stewart,Duncan J. Watts,Sara McLanahan +114 more
TL;DR: Practical limits to the predictability of life outcomes in some settings are suggested and the value of mass collaborations in the social sciences is illustrated.
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Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
Abdullah Almaatouq,Alejandro Noriega-Campero,Abdulrahman Alotaibi,Peter M. Krafft,Mehdi Moussaïd,Alex Pentland +5 more
TL;DR: The results reveal that, in the presence of plasticity and feedback, social networks can adapt to biased and changing information environments and produce collective estimates that are more accurate than their best-performing member.
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If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts
Abdullah Almaatouq,Erez Shmueli,Mariam Nouh,Ahmad Alabdulkareem,Vivek K. Singh,Mansour Alsaleh,Abdulrahman Alarifi,Anas Alfaris,Alex Pentland +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that there exist two behaviorally distinct categories of spammers and that they employ different spamming strategies, and the detectability of spam accounts with respect to three categories of features, namely content attributes, social interactions, and profile properties.
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Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change
TL;DR: It is found that people are typically poor at perceiving the directionality of their friendship ties and that this can significantly limit their ability to engage in cooperative arrangements, and strategies to overcome this limitation are suggested.
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Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam
Abdullah Almaatouq,Ahmad Alabdulkareem,Mariam Nouh,Erez Shmueli,Mansour Alsaleh,Vivek K. Singh,Abdulrahman Alarifi,Anas Alfaris,Alex Pentland +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that there exist two behaviorally distinct categories of twitter spammers and that they employ different spamming strategies, and the users in these two categories demonstrate different individual properties as well as social interaction patterns.