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Friday, June 1, 2012

Koret-Taube Conference Room in the SIEPR Gunn Building

Welcom​e, Coffee & Bagels  (8:45-9:15 am)

Session 1  (9:15-10:30 am)

Large Scale Discoveries in Text, Sound, and Digital Records

         The Rise of Machines and Molecules: Language Change in Academe,  Daniel McFarland, Associate Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology and Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business

         Computational Extraction of Social Meaning from Speed Dates,  Dan Jurafsky, Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science

        Culture mining in user-generated data: examples from music and financial investment,  Amir Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business and, by courtesy, of Sociology

Break  (10:30-10:45 am)

Session 2  (10:45-12 noon)

Methods for Discovery, Measurement, and Causal Inference in Big Data

          Mapping the Ideological Marketplace,  Adam Bonica, Assistant Professor of Political Science

          A Bayesian Semi-parametric Duration Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity,  Matthew C Harding, Assistant Professor of Economics

          Peers and Network Growth,  Sharique Hasan, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business 

Lunch  (12:00-1:30 pm)

Session 3  (1:30-2:45 pm)

Visualization of Space: Physical and Genetic

          Mapping the Historical Distribution of Income:  Working with Late 19th C. Maps and Census Data,  Karen L. Jusko, Assistant Professor of Political Science

          The Road to Division: Interstate Highways and Geographic Polarization,  Clayton Nall, Assistant Professor of Political Science

          Biodemography and quantitative genetics of human life histories in an historical population,  James Holland Jones, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment 

Break  (2:45-3:00 pm)

Session 4  (3:00-4:15 pm)

Networks

          GraphPrism: Compact Visualization of Large Networks,  Sanjay Kairam, Graduate Student in Computer Science

          Trust and Mistrust in Social Networks,  Ashish Goel, Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science

          Computational Perspectives on the Structure and Information Flows in On-Line Networks,  Jure Leskovec, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Reception  (4:15-5:00 pm)

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