New Conference Paper: “WhatsApp, Doc? A First Look at WhatsApp Public Group Data”

Here’s a new paper/dataset that has been accepted at the 12th International AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM2018) that is scheduled to take place in California in June.
Title
WhatsApp, Doc? A First Look at WhatsApp Public Group Data
Authors
Kiran Garimella
EPFL, Switzerland
Gareth Tyson
Queen Mary University, London
Source
via arXiv
Abstract

In this dataset paper we describe our work on the collection analysis is of public WhatsApp group data. Our primary goal is to explore the feasibility of collecting and using What-App data for social science research. We therefore present a generalisable data collection methodology, and a publicly available dataset for use by other researchers. To provide con-text, we perform statistical exploration to allow researchers to understand what public WhatsApp group data can be collected and how this data can be used. Given the widespread use of WhatsApp, our techniques to obtain public data and potential applications are important for the community.

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8 pages; PDF.
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Media Coverage
WhatsApp Public Groups Can Leave User Data Vulnerable to Scraping (via Venture Beat)

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