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Eric Sun
Researcher at Facebook
Publications - 12
Citations - 1461
Eric Sun is an academic researcher from Facebook. The author has contributed to research in topics: Object (computer science) & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 12 publications receiving 1436 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric Sun include Stanford University & Cameron International.
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Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
TL;DR: Using user-supplied address data and the network of associations between members of the Facebook social network, an algorithm is introduced that predicts the location of an individual from a sparse set of located users with performance that exceeds IP-based geolocation.
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Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed
TL;DR: An analysis of Facebook diffusion chains using zero-inflated negative binomial regressions shows that after controlling for distribution effects, there is no meaningful evidence that a start node’s maximum diffusion chain length can be predicted with the user's demographics or Facebook usage characteristics.
Patent
Automatically Generating Nodes and Edges in an Integrated Social Graph
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a data store of nodes and edges for each of one or more users: scanning items of content associated with the corresponding user node, identifying a candidate item of content; searching for matches between the candidate item and existing nodes; determining whether or not a match between the item and an existing node exists; and when it is determined that at least one match exists, generating an edge from the user node to the existing node for which the best match is determined.
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Location3: How Users Share and Respond to Location-Based Data on Social
Jonathan Chang,Eric Sun +1 more
TL;DR: A model to predict friendship based on check-in count is constructed and it is shown that cocheck-ins has a statistically significant effect on friendship.
Patent
Searching topics by highest ranked page in a social networking system
Robert William Cathcart,Rafael Linden Sagula,Cameron Alexander Marlow,Jonathan Chang,Siddharth Kar,Eric Sun +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, similar concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system, and aggregated social information is presented to users viewing a page associated with the metapages.