Agenda: 1st CSS Conference
June 1, 2012
8:15am - Large Scale Discoveries in Text, Sound, and Digital Records
Dan McFarland
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, STANFORD
The Rise of Machines and Molecules: Language Change in Academe
Dan Jurafsky
LINGUISTICS, STANFORD
Computational Extraction of Social Meaning from Speed Dates
Amir Goldberg
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, STANFORD
Culture mining in user-generated data: examples from music and financial investment
10:30am - Methods for Discovery, Measurement, and Casual Inference in Big Data
Adam Bonica
POLITICAL SCIENCE, STANFORD
Mapping the Ideological Marketplace
Matthew Harding
ECONOMICS, STANFORD
A Bayesian Semi-parametric Duration Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity
Sharique Hasan
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, STANFORD
Peers and Network Growth
2:30pm - Visualization of Space: Physical and Genetic
Karen Jusko
POLITICAL SCIENCE, STANFORD
Mapping the Historical Distribution of Income: Working with Late 19th C. Maps and Census Data
Clayton Nall
POLITICAL SCIENCE, STANFORD
The Road to Division: Interstate Highways and Geographic Polarization
James Holland Jones
ANTHROPOLOGY, STANFORD
Biodemography and quantitative genetics of human life histories in an historical population
3:45pm - Networks
Sanjay Kairam
GRADUATE STUDENT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, STANFORD
GraphPrism: Compact Visualization of Large Networks
Ashish Goel
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, STANFORD
Trust and Mistrust in Social Networks
Jure Leskovec
COMPUTER SCIENCE, STANFORD
Computational Perspectives on the Structure and Information Flows in On-Line Network