...worth a thousand words

Cómo ha cambiado la política en la era digital

November, 2020

Interview with Gonzalo Rivero at the ACOP podcast on political communication (in Spanish).

Tools of the trade for graduate students

April, 2020

A moodboard for students starting graduate school in Computer Science.

TwitterToddler (application)

October, 2016

A Twitter Historical Archive containing about 1.5 billion tweets from March, 2006 to July, 2009.

¿Qué influencia tienen las redes sociales en las campañas electorales?

June, 2016

“La Universidad responde” es una serie coproducida por una treintena de Universidades españolas donde se tratan multitud de temas científicos y divulgativos desde el punto de vista universitario. Son píldoras de dos minutos de duración y de fácil comprensión.

San Julián de los Prados (3D HD animation)

May, 2016

Virtual walkthrough around a pre-romanesque church reconstructed using Structured-from-Motion.

Big data y medios sociales

November, 2015

Talk delivered at the University of Oviedo during the XV Science Week

Peer review in a nutshell, a different twist

April, 2015

Comic strip about peer reviewing

Medios sociales, democracia y democratización

March, 2015

Talk delivered at TEDX OviedoUniversity 2015 (in Spanish).

Medios sociales, democracia y democratización

March, 2015

Slides for the talk delivered at TEDX OviedoUniversity 2015 (in Spanish).

El impacto del big data en la empresa

November, 2014

Lecture delivered at the University of the Balearic Islands as part of a seminar organized by Fundación Ramón Areces and Club Última Hora.

RNE - Informativo de Asturias

October, 2014

Radio interview (in Spanish) about social media.

"Directos al mediodía" (RTPA)

September, 2014

Interview in a regional TV program about the cloud, the "Celebgate" and privacy issues.

Big data, Twitter, opinión pública y mercados

July, 2014

Video for my lecture in the seminar on Big Data organized by Fundación Ramón Areces.

Big data, Twitter, opinión pública y mercados

July, 2014

Lecture about Big Data, Twitter and public opinion delivered during a seminar on Big Data organized by Fundación Ramón Areces.

Cursing in Spanish in Twitter (Jurando en español en Twitter)

February, 2014

Comic homage to the work by Wang et al. (2014) about cursing in English in Twitter. Data is real but the dataset is small and the analysis shallow to consider results to seriously. Enjoy!

Separating the wheat from the chaff in Twitter

November, 2012

Slides for a talk delivered at UC3M (Madrid) in the "Management of Multimedia Information on the Internet" masters course. Mostly based on work described in this paper.

IV Curso Ciencia de las Redes - No, no se pueden predecir elecciones con...

November, 2012

Video of my speech at the IV Curso Ciencia de las Redes organized at the UPM (Madrid).

IV Curso Ciencia de las Redes - No, no se pueden predecir elecciones con...

November, 2012

Slides used during my speech at the IV Curso Ciencia de las Redes organized at the UPM (Madrid).

No, no se pueden predecir elecciones con Twitter.

July, 2012

Slides used during my presentation in the I Congreso Internacional en Comunicación Política y Estrategias de Campaña. #ALICE12. It predated this book chapter.

A warning against converting Twitter into the next 'Literary Digest'

July, 2011

Slides used during a speech delivered at Yahoo! Research Barcelona. Based on the work described in this paper.

NO YOU CANNOT predict elections using Twitter

July, 2011

Cover for the poster at ICWSM 2011. It got a good amount of attention for the poster...

Limits of Electoral Predictions using Twitter

July, 2011

Poster presented at ICWSM 2011. It corresponds to this paper.

All Liaisons Are Dangerous When All Your Friends Are Known to Us

June, 2011

Slides used during the presentation of this paper at Hypertext 2011.

Conectar, comunicar, descubrir, filtrar, vigilar, manipular.

May, 2011

Slides that I prepared for an invited speech at Ciberciudadano.

Retibus socialibus et legibus momenti -- On social networks and the laws of...

December, 2010

Slides that I prepared to get on with this paper but never used to deliver a speech.

Overcoming Spammers in Twitter – A Tale of Five Algorithms

June 2010

Slides used during the presentation of this paper at the I Congreso Español de Recuperación de Información

Survey and evaluation of query intent detection methods

February, 2009

Video of my presentation of this paper at the Workshop on Web Search Click Data.

Survey and evaluation of query intent detection methods

February, 2009

Slides used during the presentation of this paper at the Workshop on Web Search Click Data.

sex, lies and query logs

July-August, 2008

Slides prepared while being a visiting scholar at the University of Plymouth. Based on work conducted for this paper.