Matías Piqueras
@matiaspiqueras.bsky.social
PhD student in Computer Science at Uppsala University working on developing computer vision models and methods relevant to the study of politics and society.
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#computationalsocialscience Our work on using VLLMs for semantic visual clustering is out on SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.
There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#computationalsocialscience Our work on using VLLMs for semantic visual clustering is out on SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.
There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.
Reposted by Matías Piqueras
7/ Kernel Approximation Ideal Point Poisson Factorization - scalable Bayesian ideological estimation from billions of observations, applied to 134 million TikTok comments to map ideology on the platform. @matiaspiqueras.bsky.social
Matías Piqueras (@matiaspiqueras.bsky.social)
PhD student in Computer Science at Uppsala University working on developing computer vision models and methods relevant to the study of politics and society.
matiaspiqueras.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
7/ Kernel Approximation Ideal Point Poisson Factorization - scalable Bayesian ideological estimation from billions of observations, applied to 134 million TikTok comments to map ideology on the platform. @matiaspiqueras.bsky.social
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Sophie Mainz has been awarded the John Sullivan Award for the best paper by a graduate student presented at any of the panels organized by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section at last year’s APSA conference. Congratulations to @sophiemainz.bsky.social !
June 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Sophie Mainz has been awarded the John Sullivan Award for the best paper by a graduate student presented at any of the panels organized by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section at last year’s APSA conference. Congratulations to @sophiemainz.bsky.social !
Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with @mansmag.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004
April 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with @mansmag.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004