Date: Friday, November 21, 2014--- TODAY!!!
Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Speakers: Aaron Adcock and Shankar Kalyanaraman (Facebook)
Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm; talk, 1:00pm
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Talk 1: Tree-like Structure in Social and Information Networks
Presenter: Aaron Adcock
It is often noted that social and information networks exhibit tree-like structure and
properties. In the past few years several tools have been developed to more closely
quantify this structure. I will discuss some of the results of applying these tools to
real-world social and information networks. In particular, I will discuss two
alternatives for measuring this structure: Gromov hyperbolicity and tree-width.
Talk 2: Data-mining for development
Presenter: Shankar Kalyanaraman
Over the last few years, we have witnessed innovative uses of big data to model and
predict complex human behavior and patterns. Google's use of search query data to
accurately forecast flu incidence and Ushahidi's crowdsourced crisis maps following
the Haiti earthquake in 2010 for quicker and more effective deployment of humanitarian aid
are two leading examples in this domain. My research interests draw inspiration from these
examples; and in this talk, I will showcase some previous work I have done in disease
surveillance and post-conflict violence prevention.
In the end, time-permitting, we’ll briefly chat about data science at Facebook.
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