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Published on: November 21, 2019
The detection and effect of social events on Wikipedia data-set for studying human preferences
Julien Assuied1, Yérali Gandica2,3
1CY-Tech Cergy Paris Université, Cergy, France.
Abstract:
Several studies have used Wikipedia (WP) data-set to analyse worldwide human preferences by languages. However, those studies could suffer from bias related to exceptional social circumstances. Any massive event promoting exceptional editions of WP can be defined as a source of bias. In this article, we follow a procedure for detecting outliers. Our study is based on 12 languages and 13 different categories. Our methodology defines a parameter, which is language-dependent instead of being externally fixed. We also study the presence of human cyclic behavior to evaluate apparent outliers. After our analysis, we found that the outliers in our data-set do not significantly affect the analysis of preferences by categories among different WP languages. While investigating the possibility of bias related to exceptional social circumstances is always a safe measure before doing any analysis on Big Data, we found that in the case of the first ten years of the Wikipedia data-set, outliers do not significantly affect using Wikipedia data-set as a digital footprint to analyse worldwide human preferences.
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