How to get a hot job in big data
By Dan Tynan, InfoWorld, March 19, 2012
Big data is reshaping business IT. The big data revolution is creating a new breed of business-IT jobs — and threatening to destabilize dyed-in-the-wool IT careers.
Claudia Wagner to present in the SONIC Speaker Series
Claudia Wagner will present as a part of the SONIC Speaker Series on Monday, April 2nd. The talk is titled “Extracting Semantics from User Generated Data” and will be from 2:00pm-3:00pm in Room 1441 of the Frances Searle Building on Northwestern’s Evanston Campus. Claudia is currently a research assistant and PhD student at Graz University in Austria.
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Extracting Semantics From User Generated Data
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SONIC Presence at the 32nd Sunbelt conference
Sunbelt is the annual conference organized by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). It is the leading conference for scholars in Social Network Analysis. This year (2012) the conference takes place in Redondo Beach, CA from March 13-18. A total of 10 members from the Sonic lab participate in the conference by giving paper presentations, participating in panels or giving workshops.
Below you find a list of all contributions and downloadable presentations.
- Alina Lungeanu, Yun Huang & Noshir Contractor (2012) A network perspective on success in collaboration: Stop citing me for your own good?
- Alina Lungeanu, Toshio Murase, Dorothy Carter and Noshir Contractor (2012) A Hypergraph Approach to Understanding the Assembly of Scientific Research Teams
- Mengxiao Zhu, Alina Lungeanu & Noshir Contractor (2012) Growth of New Scientific Fields: the Case of Oncofertility
- Yun Huang, Chuang Zhang, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Hugh Devlin, Alina Lungeanu, Stanley Wasserman & Noshir Contractor (2012) Comparing efficacy of link prediction models for expert recommender systems
- Curie Chang, Alina Lungeanu, Brian Keegan, Joe Gilborne & Noshir Contractor (2012) Multidimensional Networks in Crowdsourced Collaboration
- Anthony Vashevko, Curie Chang & Noshir Contractor (2012) Assembling teams for success: how research teams win funding
- Mengxiao Zhu, Amy Wax, Leslie Dechurch & Noshir Contractor (2012) Teamwork at the Hyper-Edge: Impact of Team Hyperedge Structures on Performance
- Brian Keegan (2012) Comparative Analysis of Coauthorship Networks on Wikipedia Breaking News Articles
- Ryan Whalen (2012) Reconceptualizing Precedent Depreciation: Using tree network growth to measure and compare court decisions
- Willem Pieterson, Zachary Johnson & Noshir Contractor (2012). Using the all new C-IKNOW to collect survey network data and explore these networks.
Dr. Tanya Menon to present in the SONIC Speaker Series
Dr. Tanya Menon will be presenting as part of the SONIC Speaker serieson Monday, March 19 at 11:00 am in Frances Searle, Room 1.483. Dr. Menon is a Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and previously, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Booth Business School. She studies knowledge transfers in organizations, focusing on crosscultural differences and organizational learning. In her upcoming talk, Dr. Menon will talk about The Social Structure of Dishonesty: the reciprocal relationship between dishonesty and network activation. This talk establishes the link between social structure and ethical norm violation empirically, and explores two causal processes that account for it.
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SONIC lab director quoted on the language of the internet
Noshir Contractor was quoted in an article in Medill Reports about the use of language on the Internet: http://news.medill.
Town-gown social network graph makes front page of Daily Northwestern
In Focus: Northwestern-Evanston ties thrive most at the top
Article by Marshall Cohen, graphic by Chelsea Corbin, Daily Northwestern
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Tim Hannigan to present in the SONIC speaker series
Tim Hannigan will be presenting a SONIC speaker series talk at 2:30pm on February 27th in room 1-421 of the Frances Searle Building. Tim is a Doctoral Candidate at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
In his upcoming talk, Tim will focus on his research on the evolution of product ontologies. As
cognitive representations packaging up product attributes, use-cases and buyer
characteristics, these knowledge structures become embedded as market categories.
This talk will show that the fuzzy-front end of a product market is marked by ambiguity
and uncertainty around definitions and concepts that appear in the form of rumour.
Using a computer-aided text analysis on discourse of “tech-bloggers”, Tim will show that
this uncertain knowledge is refracted by social media into semantic networks that
demonstrate the emergence of meaning structures.
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How Product Ontologies Evolve: Evidence From Recent History of the Tablet Computer
Contractor lectures at Indian Institute of Tech. and Tata
SONIC Lab director Noshir Contractor delivered lectures on Networks and Team Assembly at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay http://www.iitb.ac.in/ and at the Platinum Jubilee (75th Anniversary) celebration of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai http://platinum.tiss.edu/
Contractor Served on Organizational Science Conference Panel
SONIC Lab Director Noshir Contractor participated on a panel titled “Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities” at this year’s Organizational Science Winter Conference in Steamboats Springs, CO on Formal Organizations Meet Social Networking. http://www.informs.org/Pubs/
Calls of NetSci2012 in Evanston, IL
Call for Contributed Talks & Poster Abstracts
Bringing together leading researchers, practitioners, and teachers in network science (including analysts, modeling experts, visualization specialists, and others), NetSci fosters interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. The conference focuses on novel directions in networks research within the biological and environmental sciences, computer and information sciences, social sciences, finance and business.
Deadlines
February 29, 2012: Submission of Abstracts
April 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
June 1, 2012: Last Day for Submission of Revisions
Rules Governing Submission of Contributed Talks & Posters
1. A first author may present only one contributed abstract for the regular program. If a second abstract is submitted with the same first author, that abstract may be placed as a poster, at the discretion of the program committee.
2. Abstracts submitted after the abstract deadline may be placed in poster sessions or rejected at the discretion of the program organizers, who are under no obligation to schedule any contributed abstract that arrives after the close of business on the deadline date.
3. Preferences expressed by the author for oral or poster presentation, for presentation on a particular day, or for a particular order of presentation within a session, will be accommodated whenever possible, but at the discretion of the program organizers. Please note your preference at the end of your abstract: Contributed Only, Poster Only or Both.
4. Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair abstract submission link. Although .pdf submissions are accepted, you still MUST add the author’s and abstract in the spaces provided. For .pdf’s, font must be no less than 10pt, have 1 inch margins, single space formatting and cannot exceed 1 page.
Submission Link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netsci2012
5. Once the abstracts have been sorted by the program organizers, honoring requests for changes to abstracts will be limited to misspellings in authors’ names up until the program is published on the web. Therefore it is imperative that you proof your abstract prior to submission.
6. Upon notification of abstract placement in the program it is the responsibility of the authors to check the abstract on the web program immediately and notify the NetSci staff of any discrepancies.
7. Requests for withdrawals must come to the NetSci in writing by e-mail. Withdrawals received prior to the printing of the program Bulletin will be withdrawn from the Bulletin. Withdrawals received after the printing of the Bulletin, will be reflected in the program Corrigenda.
8. In general, the time allotted for the presentation of oral contributed abstracts is seventeen minutes for presentation and three minutes for questions.
9. Authors of abstracts assigned to poster sessions should be sure that the title and content of the poster correspond to the title and content of the abstract printed in the program Bulletin. The poster should be displayed so that a number of people can view the presentation at the same time. You may tack your poster up to the provided backing boards. When designing your poster, take into consideration that attendees may be viewing the material from a distance beyond 3′. The minimum poster size is 3′ high x 3.5′ wide (.92 x 1.07 meters) but no larger than 4′ high x 4′ wide (1.22 x 1.22 meters).
All questions regarding NetSci 2012 Contributed Talks/Posters should be directed to netsci2012@gmail.com. Please place in the subject heading – “Calls”.