A Guide to Using Social Media as a Geospatial Lens for Studying Public Opinion and Behavior

This silver document aggregates five recent arXiv papers. Key security-relevant contributions: (1) “How segmented is my network?” defines a statistically principled scalar metric (segmentedness = fraction of disallowed node-pair communications) for measuring network segmentation, derives a normalized estimator with confidence intervals, and shows that M=97 uniformly sampled node-pairs suffices for a 95% CI with ±0.1 margin; applications include baseline tracking, zero-trust assessment, and merger integration. (2) “From Debate to Decision: Conformal Social Choice” proposes a post-hoc conformal‑