oh man that would be cool! i didn't link any specific informations on the videos due to a lot of them being small accounts and trying to preserve what privacy is possible for them, but would love to see this idea with another video dataset!
initial version of growing mesh cellular automata (based on @nervousjesse.bsky.social's differential growth system but with a cellular automata defining growth regions rather than heat equation style diffusion)
TikTok is uniquely blocking research access in Canada for no apparent reason. We're in the dark when it comes to online harms.
open.substack.com/pub/bensteel...
datamap here: bendavidsteel.github.io/moltbook_top... and scraper here: github.com/bendavidstee...
couldn't help but scrape some moltbook data and make a datamap, I like that Qwen vibe-matches topic names to the writing style as it did for my Douyin datamap. made with toponymy and datamapplot. link to datamap and scraper below
Just uploaded the metadata of 1.1m Douyin posts here, if anyone wants to use it!: huggingface.co/datasets/ben...
Mapping the winds of online attitude change
Big thanks to @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social, Derek Ruths, and @miriamschirmer.bsky.social for all your help
Very happy to announce that our paper 'Just Another Hour on TikTok: ID sampling to obtain a complete slice of TikTok' was just published in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media!
Check it out here: journalqd.org/article/view...
I've been developing an open-source library for stance detection: github.com/bendavidstee...
My hope is to make stance detection much easier to apply, opening it up for more social scientists to use. If you're interested in attitudes and text data, take a look!
Our work was featured in The Economist!
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Deutschlandfunk radio covering our work TikTok (in German):
www.deutschlandfunk.de/social-media...
Link here: bendavidsteel.github.io/fullscreen/v...
Some pretty interesting topics hidden away in there. Let me know what you find!
Ever wanted to pan through the latent🌌 space of TikTok videos? Made using the amazing toponymy and datamapplot from @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social
and data from mine and @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social
's first complete TikTok slice. link below
Instantiations of extended particle life, exploring using CLIP
Cyclical lenia
Choropleth of the amount of AI generated content different countries produce on TikTok
Upswing in content tagged as AI related to the canadian election as it draws closer
Have you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort!
w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
