Estimating demographics from internet activity

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I'm looking for research papers on estimating demographic information (age, wealth, location, gender etc.) out of internet activities (preferably social network activity or browser history).

Where would be a good place to look for?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '12 at 17:32

Last summer, Kaggle ran a competition to predict a users psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Narcissism etc. using only Twitter data. You can see the competition and results here:

I recall there was a published paper on the psychopathy prediction, here: http://www.onlineprivacyfoundation.org/research_/Sumner_Predicting_Dark_Triad_Traits_from_Twitter_Usage_V5.pdf

Enno Shioji · Answer 2 · 2012-12-22T14:23:21.877

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Stuff that I found so far:
Demographic Prediction Based on User’s Browsing Behavior
A Machine Learning Approach to Twitter User Classification
Classifying Latent User Attributes in Twitter

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answered Dec 21 '12 at 13:06

Enno Shioji

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