Presentation given at HBKU Colloquium on Big Data and the Law (https://hbku.edu.qa/en/academic-events/digital-humanities-big-data-law). Joint research with Emilio Zagheni and others on monitoring international migration using Facebook advertising data.
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Estimating Migration and Quantifying Migrant Assimilation Using Internet Advertising Data
1. Estimating Migration and
Quantifying Migrant Assimilation
Using Internet Advertising Data
Ingmar Weber
@ingmarweber
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Digital Humanities, Big Data, and the Law Symposium
9. Bias Reduction via Model-Fitting
Mean out-of-sample absolute percentage error 37%,
down from 56% without origin-age bias correction
Adjusted R^2 = .70
Does not use GDP, language, internet penetration,
z = age-gender group
i = country of birth
j = US state of residence
11. Do Refugees Share German Interests?
What interests to consider? Everybody likes Music and Technology.
How to interpret the score? High/low compared to European migrants?
Germans in DEU
FB Interests:
Football (90%)
Max Planck (70%)
Sauerkraut (40%)
Arabs in MENA
FB Interests:
Quran (80%)
Ibn Al-Haytham (60%)
Falafel (60%)
Arabs in DEU
FB Interests:
?