DIMACS Workshop on Building Communities for Transforming Social Media Research Through New Approaches for Collecting, Analyzing, and Exploring Social Media Data
April 10 - 11, 2014
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers:
- Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, chirags at rutgers.edu
- Mor Naaman, Cornell Tech, mor. naaman at cornell.edu
- Winter Mason, Stevens Institute, winter.mason at stevens.edu
Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Focus
on Information Sharing and Dynamic Data Analysis.
Workshop Program:
Thursday, April 10, 2014
12:00 - 1:20 Registration and Lunch, Introductions
1:20 - 1:30 Director's Welcome
Rebecca Wright, Director of DIMACS
1:30 - 5:00 Short Talks (3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break)
terasaur: Gigabytes to Terabytes
Paul Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Is it an Epidemic of GIGOitis?
Leonard Hirsch, Smithsonian Institute
Wiki Surveys: Open and Quantifiable Social Data Collection
Matthew J. Salganik, Microsoft Research and Princeton University
Coding the Twitter Sphere: Humans and Machines Learning Together
Stuart Shulman, Texifter
Sensing, Understanding, and Shaping Human Behavior
Vivek Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Wordcount Approach to Assessing the Moral Color of Old & New Media
John Voiklis, Brown University and Harmony Institute
Automated Discovery and Visualization of Communication Networks from Social Media
Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, Canada
Collecting and Connecting On and Offline Political Network Data
Libby Hemphill, Illinois Institute of Technology
Is Content Really King? An Objective Analysis of the Public's Response to Medical Videos on YouTube
Tejas Desai, East Carolina University
Searching for Information in Online Health Communities
Yan Zhang, University of Texas at Austin
Text-mining Social Media to Study Mental and Physical Health
Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania
Taming the Long Tail: Identifying Filtering in Social Media
Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University
5:00 - 6:30 Reception with light refreshments (Dinner on your own)
Friday, April 11, 2014
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Demo of SOCRATES
9:15 - 10:30 Session on Collection (tools, storage)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session on Analysis (research methods, evaluation)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Session on Exploration (linking, visualization)
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break
3:30 - 4:30 Open session
4:30 - 5:00 Wrap-up
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