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