Ingmar Weber is the research director of the Social Computing Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). His interdisciplinary research looks at what online user-generated data can tell us about the offline world and society at large. Particular topics of interest include (i) monitoring international migration, (ii) tracking digital gender gaps, and (iii) mapping poverty.

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  • Qatar Computing Research Institute

    Research Institute, Doha, Qatar
    Research Director

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Segregation and Sentiment: Estimating Refugee Segregation and Its Effects Using Digital Trace Data

Authors Neal Marquez, Kiran Garimella, Ott Toomet, ...
Year 2019
Book Title Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios
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1 Book Chapter

Diversity in Online Advertising: A Case Study of 69 Brands on Social Media

Authors Jisun An, Ingmar Weber
Year 2018
Book Title Social Informatics
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2 Book Chapter

Estimating Group Properties in Online Social Networks with a Classifier

Authors George Berry, Antonio Sirianni, Nathan High, ...
Year 2018
Book Title Social Informatics
3 Book Chapter

Persistent Sharing of Fitness App Status on Twitter

Authors Kunwoo Park, Ingmar Weber, Meeyoung Cha, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing - CSCW '16
4 Journal Article

Quote RTs on Twitter

Authors Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Munmun De Choudhury
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science - WebSci '16
5 Journal Article

A Large-Scale Study of Online Shopping Behavior

Authors Soroosh Nalchigar, Ingmar Weber, Parisa Lak, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the 20th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium on - IDEAS '16
6 Journal Article

Quantified Self Meets Social Media

Authors Yafei Wang, Ingmar Weber, Prasenjit Mitra
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Health Conference - DH '16
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7 Journal Article

The Mesh of Civilizations in the Global Network of Digital Communication

Authors Bogdan State, Patrick S. Park, Michael W. Macy, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 17
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8 Journal Article

Demographic research with non-representative internet data

Authors Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber
Year 2015
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
9 Journal Article

#FoodPorn

Authors Yelena Mejova, Hamed Haddadi, Anastasios Noulas, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Health 2015 - DH '15
10 Journal Article

"I like ISIS, but I want to watch Chris Nolan's new movie"

Authors Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ingmar Weber
Year 2015
Journal Name Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media - HT '15
11 Journal Article

Quantifying Politics Using Online Data

Authors Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber
Year 2014
Journal Name Social Science Computer Review
12 Journal Article

Web Search Queries Can Predict Stock Market Volumes

Authors Ilaria Bordino, Ingmar Weber, Stefano Battiston, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 89
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13 Journal Article

Lifestyle Disease Surveillance Using Population Search Behavior: Feasibility Study

Authors Shahan Ali Memon, Saquib Razak, Ingmar Weber
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Medical Internet Research
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14 Journal Article

Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Before Seeking Information on 12-Step Addiction Treatment Programs: A Web-Search Log Analysis

Authors George Nitzburg, Ingmar Weber, Elad Yom-Tov
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Medical Internet Research
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15 Journal Article

Online Health Monitoring using Facebook Advertisement Audience Estimates in the United States: Evaluation Study

Authors Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber, Luis Fernandez-Luque
Year 2018
Journal Name JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
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16 Journal Article

Characterizing Awareness of Schizophrenia Among Facebook Users by Leveraging Facebook Advertisement Estimates

Authors Koustuv Saha, Ingmar Weber, Michael L Birnbaum, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Medical Internet Research
17 Journal Article

Estimating Group Properties in Online Social Networks with a Classifier

Authors George Berry, Antonio Sirianni, Nathan High, ...
18 Journal Article

Lifestyle Disease Surveillance Using Population Search Behavior: Feasibility Study (Preprint)

Authors Shahan Ali Memon, Saquib Razak, Ingmar Weber
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19 Journal Article

Going beyond accuracy: estimating homophily in social networks using predictions

Authors George Berry, Antonio Sirianni, Ingmar Weber, ...
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20 Journal Article

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