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Maximilian Schich
Maximilian Schich Associate Professor UT Dallas Arts & Technology @schichmax                       Talk "From Warburg to Deep Learning" WATCH @ YOUTUBE Biography Maximilian Schich is an associate professor for arts and technology at the University of Texas at Dallas and a founding member of the Edith...
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Michael Macy
Michael Macy Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology Director of the Social Dynamics Laboratory Cornell University   Biography Michael Macy left the farm in Tennessee where he grew up to attend Harvard, where he received his B.A. and later Ph.D, along with an M.A. from Stanford. He is currently Goldwin Smith Professor...
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Emilio Ferrara

     

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Nicola Perra
Nicola Perra Senior Lecturer in Network Science Greenwich University @net_science     Biography Nicola Perra is currently Senior Lecturer in Network Science in the Business School of University of Greenwich. He joined the University in August 2015. From 2014 to 2015 he was Associate Research Scientist at Northeastern University, Boston USA. From 2011 to 2014...
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Claudia Wagner

         

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Sandra González-Bailón
Sandra González-Bailón Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania @sgonzalezbailon                     Title of Talk The Visibility of News Sources across Media Channels WATCH @ YOUTUBE Abstract How do people consume news and political information across different media channels? The answer to this...
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Yelena Mejova
Yelena Mejova Research Leader ISI Foundation @yelenamejova                       Title of Talk Social Media for Lifestyle Health WATCH @ YOUTUBE Abstract As social media captures an increasing portion of our lives, it is becoming an invaluable resource for understanding lifestyle diseases such as obesity and diabetes....
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Mauro Martino
Mauro Martino Founder and Director of the Visual AI Lab IBM Research AI Professor of Practice Northeastern University @martino_design         Title of Talk Data Exploration Through Artificial Intelligence and Dataviz WATCH @ YOUTUBE Biography Mauro Martino is the founder and director of the Visual Artificial Intelligence Lab at IBM Research, with offices...
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Jackelyn Hwang
Jackelyn Hwang Assistant Professor Stanford University                     Title of Talk “Seeing” Spatial Contexts at Scale in Urban Sociology WATCH @ YOUTUBE Abstract Since the birth of American sociology, scholars have long been interested in the systematic observation of urban spaces. In addition to documenting population and...
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Luca Maria Aiello
Luca Maria Aiello Senior Research Scientist Nokia Bell Labs @lajello                     Title of Talk The Spirit of the City: Capturing Intangible Properties of the Urban Space WATCH @ YOUTUBE Abstract We present a number of techniques that can be used to mine geo-referenced and crowd-generated data...
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