A minor extension of the logistic equation for growth of word counts on online media: Parametric description of diversity of growth phenomena in society
Hayafumi Watanabe

TL;DR
This study extends the logistic growth model to better describe the diverse patterns of new vocabulary emergence on online media, revealing various growth dynamics and their relation to societal phenomena across multiple languages.
Contribution
Introduced an extended logistic equation with an additional parameter to accurately model diverse vocabulary growth patterns in online media.
Findings
The model reproduces logistic, linear, and finite-time divergence growth curves.
Most growth patterns start exponentially and approach a power function asymptotically.
The model applies to Google Trends data across multiple languages.
Abstract
To understand the growing phenomena of new vocabulary on nationwide online social media, we analyzed monthly word count time series extracted from approximately 1 billion Japanese blog articles from 2007 to 2019. In particular, we first introduced the extended logistic equation by adding one parameter to the original equation and showed that the model can consistently reproduce various patterns of actual growth curves, such as the logistic function, linear growth, and finite-time divergence. Second, by analyzing the model parameters, we found that the typical growth pattern is not only a logistic function, which often appears in various complex systems, but also a nontrivial growth curve that starts with an exponential function and asymptotically approaches a power function without a steady state. Furthermore, we observed a connection between the functional form of growth and the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsComplex Network Analysis Techniques · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
