Koustav Rudra presented his work on “Identifying Sub-events and Summarizing Disaster-Related Information from Microblogs” in The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. The conference was held at Ann Arbor, Michigan from 8th to 12th July, 2018.
Multidimensional Understanding of Tie Strength
An article “The weakness of tie strength” in the current issue of Social Networks unpacked three elements related to the strength of ties: capacity, frequency, and redundancy. The case with an email network shows that the three elements are not highly correlated and are likely to reflect different dimensions of ties. This multidimensional view may explain some unexpected empirical findings. For example, Garg and Telang (forthcoming in Management Science) found that strong ties in online social networks play a significant role in job search and weak ties are ineffective. Weak ties may generate some job information, but only strong ties lead to actions such as referrals.
Kyosuke Tanaka and Diego Gómez-Zará attend SICSS Chicago 2018
The SONIC Ph.D. students, Kyouske Tanaka and Diego Gómez-Zará, participated at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, in Chicago. The purpose of the Summer Institute was to bring together graduate students and early career researchers in both social science and data science. Content included live-streamed lectures from the main site at Duke University as well as guest speakers who presented on cutting-edge computational research and methods. Topics covered include text analysis, digital data collection, experimental design, non-probability sampling, agent-based modeling, and ethics.
Noshir Contractor’s paper accepted at ASONAM 2018
Noshir Contractor co-authored a paper titled, “Generative Modeling of Human Behavior and Social Interactions Using Abductive Analysis”, with Yihui Ren, Vanessa Cedeno-Mieles, Zhihao Hu, Xinwei Deng, Abhjijin Adiga, Christopher Barrett, Saliya Ekanayake, Joshua Epstein, Brian Goode, Gizem Korkmaz, Christopher Kuhlman, Dustin Machi, Michael Macy, Madhav Marathe, Naren Ramakrishnan, Sekharipuram Ravi, Parang Saraf and Nathan Self.
The paper was accepted at EEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2018), held in Barcelona, Spain.
Noshir Contractor presents at a NetSci 2018 satellite workshop in Paris
Noshir Contractor’s presentation, titled “Deep Space Collaboration: Impact of Social Networks on Task Switching in Collaborative Work”, was co-authored with Alina Lungeanu, Patrick Park, and Leslie A. DeChurch. This was presented at a NetSci 2018 satellite workshop in Paris, France on June 12, 2018. The paper can be found here.
Using networks to analyze soccer
Engineering professor Luís Amaral has investigated complex social and structural networks in areas ranging from healthcare and biology to gender discrimination and gun violence. His diverse research interests and innate curiosity eventually led him to study soccer — his favorite sport.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/may/using-big-data-to-analyze-soccer/
Social Media for Opioid Addiction Epidemiology: Automatic Detection of Opioid Addicts from Twitter and Case Studies
A recent research from West Virginia University shows how to detect opioid addicted people from large structured heterogeneous networks using transductive learning. Check out the paper: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3132857
Noshir Contractor presents at ICA 2018
Noshir Contractor presents a paper (co-authored with Michael Schultz and Leslie DeChurch) titled “Communicating through space and over time” at ICA 2018, in Prague, Czech Republic.
Schultz, M., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2018, May). Communicating through space and over time. Paper to be presented at the 68th Annual ICA conference, “Voices,” Prague, Czech Republic.
Noshir Contractor and Kyosuke Tanaka presented their research at #ICA2018
Noshir Contractor and Kyosuke Tanaka presented their research at the 68th Annual Conference of International Communication Association in Prague, the Czech Republic:
- Tanaka, K., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2018, May). Origins of omission and commission errors in perceptions of group communication networks. Paper to be presented at the 68th Annual ICA conference, “Voices,” Prague, Czech Republic.
- Schultz, M., DeChurch, L., & Contractor, N. (2018, May). Communicating through space and over time. Paper to be presented at the 68th Annual ICA conference, “Voices,” Prague, Czech Republic.
Noshir Contractor presents at the Computational Social Science Luncheon
Noshir Contractor’s presentation at the Computational Social Science Luncheon at Northwestern University on May 21, 2018 was titled “Some Assembly Required: Teaming in the 21st Century”.