How was your holiday travel? A recent New York Times article “Pumpkin Pie in Miami” shows flight pattern networks in the US over thanksgiving holiday, using search data from Google Flights revealing the movements of over 3.6 million Americans during the Thanksgiving holiday.… Read the rest
Lab Director Noshir Contractor presented his lecture “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” on Oct. 26, 2015 for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Team Science Talks at the University of Florida. His talk illustrated how comprehensive digital trace data provide an unprecedented exploratorium to model the socio-technical motivations for creating, maintaining, dissolving, and reconstituting into teams – arguing that Network Science is foundational in advancing our understanding of effective team emergence and that these insights are building a new generation of recommender systems that leverage our research insights on the socio-technical motivations for creating ties.… Read the rest
Lab Director Noshir Contractor presented a Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences & Humanities on September 24th, 2015 at Syracuse University. His talk, entitled “Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges” argues that computational social science is the foundation on which to unleash intellectual insights locked in big data, illustrating how these insights offer scientists and scholars an unprecedented opportunity to engage more actively in monitoring, anticipating, and designing interventions to address grand societal challenges.… Read the rest
The Northwestern Alumni Association chose to highlight former SONIC Research Assistant, Neel Kunjur, for his post-college achievements at SpaceX. In his profile, Neel reflects on how his undergraduate education in McCormick prepared him to work at the cutting edge of space technology.… Read the rest
Noshir Contractor was featured on School of Comm’s “Creative Buzz” after leading an all-day workshop with the entire cohort of MSLCE students on November 14th. Master’s student, Zach Hyman, remarked, “For us MSLCE students, who come from a variety of different educations and locations around the world, Professor Contractor’s lessons rang true.”
Full article available here: http://comm.soc.northwestern.edu/mslce-blog/2015/11/24/network-expert-teaches-mslce-students-about-social-connections/… Read the rest
SONIC Lab is proud to welcome Arno Scharl, who will present a talk on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015 at 10:00 AM in the SONIC Lab in the Frances Searle Building 1-459. All are welcome to attend. To schedule a one-on-one meeting with Dr.… Read the rest
Noshir Contractor gave a keynote talk at the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining on August 27th in Paris, France. The title of his speech was “Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges.”
To read more about the conference and it’s keynote speakers, including Contractor, click here.… Read the rest
SONIC Lab is proud to welcome Ludo Waltman, who will present a talk on Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 at 10:00 AM in the SONIC Lab in the Frances Searle Building 1-459. All are welcome to attend. To schedule a one-on-one meeting with Dr.… Read the rest