Congratulations to the Winter 2016 Data Science Interns! Thanks for your hard work this quarter and for your thoughtful final presentations. We look forward to seeing many of you again next quarter and wish you all the very best in your future endeavors!… Read the rest
Data Science Intern, Rachel Li was awarded a grant by the Northwestern University Office of Undergraduate Research to help conduct research on behalf of SONIC Lab through the Network Sciences Collaborative Technology Alliance at the United States Military Academy this spring.… Read the rest
Rafi Letzter of Tech Insider reports that Facebook Messenger has a feature capable of sending information about when other users are online to your computer in plain text. Soren Louv-Jansen used this to write a program that checked Facebook every ten minutes and recorded these timestamps.… Read the rest
Lab Director, Noshir Contractor, co-organized the Designing Online Experiments: Citizen Science Approaches to Research Workshop at the 19th Annual Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Conference in San Francisco on February 27th, 2016
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Co-organizer, Designing Online Experiments: Citizen Science Approaches to Research Workshop at the 19th Annual Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) Conference, February 27, 2016, San Francisco, CA.… Read the rest
Lab Director, Noshir Contractor, presented on a panel titled Issues of Social Media and Social Networks for the Communication of Science Related to Contentious Societal Issues at the National Academies of Science’s Committee on the Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda in Washington DC on February 24th, 2016.… Read the rest
Lab Director, Noshir Contractor delivered a talk entitled “Team Science for the 21st Century” as an invited speaker at the 3rd Kavli Symposium on Science Journalism in Washington DC on February 15th, 2016.
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Contractor, N. (February 15, 2016). Team Science for the 21st Century.… Read the rest
Lab Director, Noshir Contractor delivered a talk entitled “Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges” as an invited member of the Lambda Pi Eta Choice Scholar Lecture Series at the University of California Santa Barbara on March 4th, 2016.… Read the rest
31212D Charles M. Macal, (GSS) Director, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Sys
On February 23r, 2016, Charles “Chick” Macal visited SONIC Lab to present “Simulating Chicago (and Everyone in It)” as part of the SONIC Speaker Series. Dr. Macal’s full abstract and presentation can be viewed below.
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chiSIM, the Chicago Social Interaction Model, is an agent-based model of people and places in Chicago along with the daily activities in which residents engage.… Read the rest
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Emily DeMarco of Inside Science reports that researchers from the the University of Delaware are fitting Delaware Bay tiger sharks with devices to track them during their southward migration. These researchers are interested in, not just where they go, but how the sharks interact with each other and other animals during their long swim.
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Adam Pearce and Dorothy Gambrell of Bloomberg Buisiness scanned data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey to maps the most common professional pairings across 3.5 million households. Their interactive highlights the five most common occupation/relationship matchups as well as the top male-male and female-female job matchups for each occupation within 435 professional silos.… Read the rest