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The Origins of ‘Big Data’: An Etymological Detective Story – NYTimes.com

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The Origins of ‘Big Data’: An Etymological Detective Story – NYTimes.com.

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SONIC is excited to look for data science interns to add to our team! If you are interested in advancing the social network theory through the development of cutting-edge techniques alongside a passionate team of individuals, check out the form below to see how to get involved!

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This past Monday, @noshir presented the lecture “Reimagining Theories and Methods to Understand and Enable the Algorithmically Infused Changing Nature of Work” in the International Scholars Seminar Series for BK21 FOUR at Seoul National University!

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A huge congratulations goes out to @dgzara for his PhD defense! The dissertation committee included SONIC’s own @noshir , as well as @dechurch and @hqz of @NorthwesternU , in addition to @stanfordmav of @Stanford

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SonicNUSONIC Research Group@SonicNU·
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Do you have to feel guilty about binge watching that new Netflix season this weekend? Good news - @NU_SoC professor @PabloBochon says no! Learn more about the abundance of information and media availability worldwide in this new @UTWthePodcast episode
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What we may think of as “information overload” might be better termed “information abundance,” according to @PabloBochon of @NU_Soc. Check out his ideas in our latest episode: https://bit.ly/37X8vW6

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20 Aug

Congratulations to SONIC Director @noshir for his honors both with the Fellows Book Award from @icahdq and with the Simmel Award from @SocNetAnalysts ! More on this in the following @NorthwesternEng article: https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/industrial/news-events/news/articles/2021/contractor-receives-honors-from-ica-insna.html

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