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Big Data Jobs

2012-03-21 No Comments

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

2012-03-19 No Comments

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

2012-03-15 No Comments

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.

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Dr. Tanya Menon to present in the SONIC Speaker Series

2012-03-12 No Comments

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.