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David JP O'Sullivan

@davidjpos.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Analytics at the University of Limerick

David JP O'Sullivan @davidjpos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Built from Wikidata, DBpedia and five editions of Wikipedia. Vincent ended up learning the rugby positions in Japanese kanji to scrape the Japanese one. Data (CSV, SQL, SQLite): doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Code: github.com/CompNet/Rugb...

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RugbyScope: a Transfer-Oriented Rugby Union Database

RugbyScope is a database aiming at describing rugby union players, teams, and stints. It is based on the combination of data coming from of 7 sources: Wikidata: a knowledge base manually populated by ...

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David JP O'Sullivan @davidjpos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper in Data in Brief with Vincent Labatut (Avignon University). RugbyScope: open database of men's rugby union, 1867-2026. 24,364 players, 7,888 teams and 96,573 career stints. Vincent did a huge amount of the heavy lifting. doi.org/10.1016/j.di... #rugby #opendata #networkscience #sportsdata

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Leah Keating @leahkeating.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Delighted to share our new preprint “An Approximate-Master-Equation Formulation of the Watts Threshold Model on Hypergraphs” in collaboration with Kwang-Il Goh and Mason Porter. arxiv.org/abs/2503.04020

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An Approximate-Master-Equation Formulation of the Watts Threshold Model on Hypergraphs

In traditional models of behavioral or opinion dynamics on social networks, researchers suppose that all interactions occur between pairs of individuals. However, in reality, social interactions also ...

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Modeling diffusion in networks with communities: A multitype branching process approach link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

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Modeling diffusion in networks with communities: A multitype branching process approach

The dynamics of diffusion in complex networks are widely studied to understand how entities, such as information, diseases, or behaviors, spread in an interconnected environment. Complex networks ofte...

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