Schedule
- 5 March 2014: Ashton Anderson, Dan Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec. Discovering Value from Community Activity on Focused Question Answering Sites: A Case Study of Stack Overflow, KDD'12. (Everyone.)
- 26 February 2014: talking about spring-term directions. (Everyone.)
- 12/19 February 2014: reviewing for ICWSM'14. (Everyone.)
- 29 January/5 February 2014: Extracting Diurnal Patterns of Real World Activity from Social Media. Nir Grinberg, Mor Naaman, Blake Shaw, Gilad Lotan, ICWSM 2013. (Adam and Katja.)
- 22 January 2014: A Machine Learning Approach to Twitter User Classi.cation. Marco Pennacchiotti and Ana-Maria Popescu, ICWSM 2011. (Jack and Meg.)
- 15 January 2014: #Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtag. Yu-Ru Lin, Drew Margolin, Brian Keegan, Andrea Baronchelli, David Lazer, ICWSM 2013. (Marielle and Matt.)
- 8 January 2014: Getting started. (DLN.)
- On reading/presenting: Michael Mitzenmacher. How to read a research paper; S. Keshav. How to read a paper, Computer Communication Review, 2007; Ian Parberry. How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students, 2000; Catherine McGeoch, Bernard Moret. How to present a paper on experimental work with algorithms, SIGACT News, 1999.
- Small worlds: Jon Kleinberg. Navigation in a small world. Nature, 2000 [off-campus link]. For more detail, also read: Jon Kleinberg. The small-world phenomenon: An algorithmic perspective, STOC 1999.
Participants
Adam Canady
Noah Carnahan
Katja Collier
Matt Cotter
Meg Crenshaw
Larkin Flodin
Marielle Foster
Jack Hessel
Joy Hill