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Naim Bro
@NaimBroKhomasi
Postdoctoral researcher @IMFDChile & Cambridge University PhD. A cyclist interested in historical sociology + elites + computational social science.
Jul 25, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
🚨Paper alert!🚨 #HistoricalSociology #SocialNetworkAnalysis

How do new groups assume positions of political power? Theories of conflict focus on between-group conflict; I propose a model where conflict starts within groups.

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🧵 1/15 ImageImage In the spirit of Padgett & Ansell's "Rise of the Medici", I built the kinship relations among all ~1500 Chilean parliamentarians in 1828-1894.

This was a *very* cohesive elite, with more than 1000 parliamentarians falling into the network's giant component.

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Sep 3, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A thread explaining new pub with the great @mmendozarocha:

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Node embeddings are compressed forms for representing the position of graph vertices in relation to each other.

1/ We use node embeddings to measure the vicinity between surnames in Santiago, Chile. Two surnames will be closer in the embedding space if they co-occur more than expected in people's last name combinations in the Hispanic naming system.

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