Agenda: 2nd CSS Conference

January 11, 2013

Justin Grimmer

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, STANFORD

The Impression of Influence: How Legislator Communication and Government Spending Cultivate a Personal Vote

Chris Potts

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LINGUISTICS

Cravin' That Straight Talk: The Latent Affective Meaning of Demonstratives

Jeff Heer

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Interpretation and Trust: Visual Analysis of Large Text Collections

Paolo Parigi

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, STANFORD

The Impact of Risk on Tie Strength: Results from an Online Case Study

Guido Imbens

PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, STANFORD

Large Sample Results for Network Data

Deborah Gordon

PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, STANFORD

The Regulation of Foraging in Harvester Ants and Internet Congestion Control

Hal Varian

CHIEF ECONOMIST AT GOOGLE

Predicting the Present with Search Engine Data

Daniel Tunkelang

DIRECTOR OF DATA SCIENCE AT LINKEDIN

Information, Attention, and Trust: A Hierarchy of Needs

Lada Adamic

FACEBOOK AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF INFORMATION, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Social Networks as Information Filters

Dan Ho

PROFESSOR OF LAW, STANFORD

Fudging the Nudge: Information Disclosure and Restaurant Grading

Jon Levin

PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, STANFORD

Learning from Experiments in Online Markets

Brian Knutson

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, STANFORD

Predicting Choice with Brain Activity