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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220922T160000
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SUMMARY:Invited talk Ane\, Anastassia\, Michael at University of Liverpool\, Geographic Data Science Lab
DESCRIPTION:Note 3PM BST is 4PM Copenhagen time.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/invited-talk-ane-anastassia-michael-at-university-of-liverpool-geographic-data-science-lab/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221006T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221006T120000
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SUMMARY:Ane Rahbek Vierø at CRBAM 2022
DESCRIPTION:Reproducible Quality Assessment of OSM Data for Cycling\nApplications
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/ane-rahbek-viero-at-crbam-2022/
LOCATION:University of Amsterdam\, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221006T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221006T143000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20221005T094014Z
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SUMMARY:Anastassia Vybornova at CRBAM 2022
DESCRIPTION:The Cycle Node Network Planner: A data-driven decision support tool
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/anastassia-vybornova-at-crbam-2022/
LOCATION:University of Amsterdam\, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221011T090000
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SUMMARY:Keynote by Luca Aiello at International Conference on Discovery Science 2022
DESCRIPTION:Coloring Social Relationships\nSocial relationships are the key determinant of crucial societal outcomes\, including diffusion of innovation\, productivity\, happiness\, and life expectancy. To better attain such outcomes at scale\, it is therefore paramount to have technologies that can effectively capture the type of social relationships from digital data. NLP researchers have tried to do so from conversational text but mostly focusing on sentiment or topic mining\, techniques that fall short on either conciseness or exhaustiveness. We propose a theoretical model of 10 dimensions (colors) of social relationships that is backed by decades of research in social sciences and that captures most of the common relationship types. We trained a deep-learning model to classify text along these ten dimensions\, and we reached performance up to 0.98 AUC. By applying this tool on large-scale conversational data\, we show that the combination of the predicted dimensions suggests both the types of relationships people entertain and the types of real-world communities they shape.  \nWe believe that the ability of capturing interpretable social dimensions from language using AI will help closing the gap between the oversimplified social constructs that existing social network analysis methods can measure and the multifaceted understanding of social dynamics that has been developed by decades of theoretical research.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/keynote-by-luca-aiello-at-international-conference-on-discovery-science-2022/
LOCATION:Campus St Priest\, 161 Rue Ada\, 34095\, Montpellier\, France
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221018T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221018T183000
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CREATED:20221005T092926Z
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SUMMARY:Roberta Sinatra at Women in Network Science Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Pathways in Network Science – A seminar with Roberta Sinatra
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-at-women-in-network-science-seminar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221019T170000
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SUMMARY:Michele Coscia at DINS Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Quantifying Political Polarization on a Network Using Generalized Euclidean Distance
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/michele-coscia-at-dins-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221022T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221022T110000
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CREATED:20221021T073740Z
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SUMMARY:Roberta Sinatra at Danish Data Science Academy / Pioneer Centre for AI
DESCRIPTION:Keynote to: Science of Science for Data Scientists
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-sinatra-at-danish-data-science-academy-pioneer-centre-for-ai/
LOCATION:Frederiksdal Sinatur Hotel\, Frederiksdalsvej 360\, Frederiksdal\, Denmark
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221025T143000
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SUMMARY:Luca Rossi chairing and moderating NLP\, Fake News and Social Media @ Digital Tech Summit
DESCRIPTION:Program:\nWelcoming talk: The many faces of Fake News\, by session chair\, Luca Rossi \nNLP\, Fake News and Social Media\nScientific Talk: NLP and social media\, Marina Charquero Ballestar\, Postdoc\, AU \nScientific Talk: Editorial media and social media platforms: it’s complicated\, Aske Kammer\, RUC \nBusiness Talk: Daniel Hanse\, tjekdet.dk \nBusiness Talk: Complexities of tacking the challenge of misinformation at scale: tools and possibilities for researchers\, Nicole Lyon\, Meta \nDebate:\nWill be announced \nChair: Luca Rossi\, Associate Professor\, ITU \nModerator: Luca Rossi\, Associate Professor\, ITU \nSession coordinator: Nikolaj Oppermann\, Network\, Innovation & Collaboration manager\, ITU
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/luca-rossi-chairing-and-moderating-nlp-fake-news-and-social-media-digital-tech-summit/
LOCATION:Bella Center\, Center Blvd. 5\, København\, 2300\, Denmark
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221102T160000
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CREATED:20221021T170422Z
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SUMMARY:Roberta Sinatra at Aarhus University\, The Science Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Quantifying biases and inequalities in science\nEvery day our life is made easier by efficient algorithms that search and rank scientific information. Yet\, these algorithms have an issue: they are trained on citation data that is ingrained with human biases. Therefore the output is inherently biased too\, creating inequalities\, raising concerns of discrimination\, and harming economic growth. In this talk\, I focus on recent quantitative efforts in science studies to (1) uncover bias mechanisms in science\, (2) use this knowledge about biases to uncover inequalities in the scientific enterprise\, and (3) create fair metrics and algorithms.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-sinatra-at-aarhus-university-the-science-studies-colloquium/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221107T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221107T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20221005T094527Z
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UID:1330-1667827800-1667838600@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Michele Coscia holds a tutorial at Complex Networks
DESCRIPTION:Node Vector Distances: Methods and Applications\nMichele is an associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen since 2020. He mainly works on algorithms for the analysis of complex networks\, with methods spanning from Computer Science to physics\, and on applying the extracted knowledge to a variety of problems\, including economic development\, human mobility\, and the analysis of ideological polarization. His background is in Digital Humanities\, connecting new technologies with a classical education. He has a PhD in CS\, obtained in 2012 at the University of Pisa. In the past\, he visited Barabasi’s CCNR at Northeastern University\, and worked with Ricardo Hausmann for 6 years at the Center for International Development\, Harvard University. \n– \nHow quickly is a disease spreading through a social network? How diversified is a country in a network of related exported products? How polarized is the online discourse on social media? These seemingly unrelated questions can be answered with a common toolbox: they all require to compare different types of node attributes. In this workshop\, you will learn how to apply Node Vector Distance techniques: given two node attributes — represented as vectors — how far the two are on a network structure? Are they correlated when we take into account not only the value of a node itself\, but also the values of its neighbors? Or simply: how spread out in the network is an attribute? The workshop will make you familiar with ways to translate concepts such as Euclidean distance\, Pearson correlation\, and variance\, when the vectors do not live in an Euclidean space\, but on the complex landscape that is the topology of a network.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/michele-coscia-holds-a-tutorial-at-complex-networks/
LOCATION:University of Palermo\, Viale delle Scienze Building 19\, Palermo\, Italy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221108T114500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221108T120000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20221005T113313Z
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UID:1333-1667907900-1667908800@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Marilena Hohmann at Complex Networks 2022
DESCRIPTION:Estimating Affective Polarization on a Social Network\nwith Michele Coscia
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/marilena-hohmann-at-complex-networks-2022/
LOCATION:University of Palermo\, Viale delle Scienze Building 19\, Palermo\, Italy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221125T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221125T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20221014T125634Z
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UID:1355-1669363200-1669395600@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Roberta Sinatra at ANETLab Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-sinatra-at-anetlab-seminar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221208T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20221126T114752Z
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UID:1431-1670527800-1670533200@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Roberta Sinatra at Northwestern University Panel on “Inequalities in Scientific Production”
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URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-sinatra-at-northwestern-university-panel-on-inequalities-in-scientific-production/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221214T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221214T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20221014T125851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T133227Z
UID:1359-1671033600-1671037200@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Michael and Ane at CASA UCL Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Bicycle networks: From data quality assessment to computational analysis\nCycling is marginalized despite being a promising solution towards sustainable transport. In parallel\, cycling data and cycling research are also marginalized\, posing many opportunities for improvement and open questions. Here\, we first present our cycling data quality tool which enables intrinsic and extrinsic assessment and reporting of data quality in cycling infrastructure data sets\, focusing on the structural network perspective. Then\, we explore how such data enable the development of computational methods for automated bicycle network analysis and planning.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/michael-and-ane-at-casa-ucl-seminar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230404T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230404T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230328T084804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T084804Z
UID:1564-1680620400-1680624000@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Michael at CSH\, Vienna
DESCRIPTION:Bicycle infrastructure data and networks: Opportunities and limitations\nIn this talk\, we will explore the opportunities and limitations of bicycle infrastructure data\, models and networks. With the increasing popularity of cycling as a mode of transportation\, the need for accurate and reliable data on bicycle infrastructure has become crucial for planners\, engineers\, and policymakers.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/michael-at-csh-vienna/
LOCATION:csh\, Josefstaedter Strasse 39\, Vienna\, 1800\, Austria
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230414T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230414T121500
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230226T165754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230226T165843Z
UID:1535-1681462800-1681474500@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:CSH Vienna workshop: Sustainable mobility
DESCRIPTION:We are organizing a workhop in Vienna! \nSustainable Mobility: Data\, Networks\, and Complexity\n \nWhy are politicians so reluctant to invest into bicycle infrastructure and pedestrianization given it is the most efficient investment towards sustainable and livable cities? What are the technical and political bottlenecks that keep society in the stranglehold of car dependency\, and what are the implications of sustained delay? Which data are we missing\, how should we grow network infrastructure\, and how to speed up the sluggish political process? The climate crisis demands pressing answers\, which we explore here with state-of-the-art insights in Data/Network/Complexity Science and Urban Planning. \nThis workshop brings together researchers and policymakers from Vienna and Copenhagen who work on understanding the best pathways towards sustainable mobility with focus on cycling\, or who are developing tools/methods supporting that aim. Our speakers will cover: Mobility and infrastructure data quality\, bicycle network planning\, politics & activism\, systemic complexity approaches.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/csh-vienna-workshop-sustainable-mobility/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230420T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230420T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230308T161856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T131348Z
UID:1551-1682015400-1682020800@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Michael at Eurosolar Austria\, Vienna
DESCRIPTION:Wie man optimale Radweg-Netze plant\nEurosolar Austria
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/michael-at-agenda-21-vienna/
LOCATION:Plutzerbrau\, Schrankgasse 2\, Vienna\, 1070\, Austria
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230509T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230509T120000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230508T083859Z
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UID:1594-1683630000-1683633600@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Ane at Velo-City 2023
DESCRIPTION:Examining Bicycle Network Data: A reproducible workflow for evaluating data quality\nSession: The potential of open data for better infrastructure
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/ane-at-velo-city-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230530T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230530T110000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230529T173103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230529T173103Z
UID:1605-1685440800-1685444400@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Roberta at Nordic Science of Science workshop\, Odense
DESCRIPTION:Academic mentees succeed in big groups\, but thrive in small groups
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-at-nordic-science-of-science-workshop-odense/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230601T154500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230601T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230529T150703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230529T150703Z
UID:1602-1685634300-1685637000@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Luca Aiello at FRCCS 2023
DESCRIPTION:Coloring Social Relationships\nSocial relationships are the key determinant of crucial societal outcomes\, including diffusion of innovation\, productivity\, happiness\, and life expectancy. To better attain such outcomes at scale\, it is therefore paramount to have technologies that can effectively capture the type of social relationships from digital data. NLP researchers have tried to do so from conversational text but mostly focusing on sentiment or topic mining\, techniques that fall short on either conciseness or exhaustiveness. We propose a theoretical model of 10 dimensions (colors) of social relationships that is backed by decades of research in social sciences and that captures most of the common relationship types. We trained a deep-learning model to accurately classify text along these ten dimensions. By applying this tool on large-scale conversational data\, we show that the combination of the predicted dimensions suggests both the types of relationships people entertain and the types of real-world communities they shape. We believe that the ability of capturing interpretable social dimensions from language using AI will help closing the gap between the oversimplified social constructs that existing social network analysis methods can measure and the multifaceted understanding of social dynamics that has been developed by decades of theoretical research.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/luca-aiello-at-frccs-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230612T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230612T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230425T131833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T131833Z
UID:1588-1686571200-1686574800@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Roberta at Reykjavik University
DESCRIPTION:Quantitative understanding of success and inequality through network science\nThe unprecedented availability of large-scale datasets on human activities and interactions has enabled us to quantitatively understand how networks shape success and drive inequalities in various fields. In this talk\, I will highlight the crucial role of network science in comprehending social phenomena\, particularly in the realms of art and science. Specifically\, I will present a series of findings on the evolution of careers in the arts\, utilizing a random walk model that successfully predicts artists’ success even twenty years into the future. I will then shift my focus to the COVID-19 pandemic and the advent of Large Language models\, discussing how they have amplified network inequalities in science. Through these examples\, I will demonstrate the importance of network science in measuring\, predicting\, and designing algorithms for social phenomena.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-at-reykjavik-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230613T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230613T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230425T132133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T132133Z
UID:1590-1686657600-1686661200@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Michael at Reykjavik University
DESCRIPTION:Computational\, evidence-based approaches to bicycle network planning\n  \nIn this talk\, I explore the opportunities and limitations of network and data science for bicycle infrastructure planning. With the increasing popularity of cycling as a mode of transportation\, and the necessity to invest into sustainable transport\, more accurate and reliable data and computational methods on bicycle infrastructure analysis are becoming a crucial support for planners\, engineers\, and policymakers. In particular\, I will introduce our new bicycle infrastructure data and network quality assessment tool BikeDNA\, and discuss various graph-based algorithms for assisting in bicycle network analysis and planning.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/michael-at-reykjavik-university/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230626T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230626T140000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230625T204820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T204820Z
UID:1622-1687784400-1687788000@nerds.itu.dk
SUMMARY:Roberta at ICSSI
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Gender Bias and Collaborative Dynamics in Science: Lessons from natural and controlled experiments
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-at-icssi/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230628T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20230628T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T111343
CREATED:20230609T095935Z
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SUMMARY:Anastassia at FOSS4G
DESCRIPTION:https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2023/talk/RPVTPU/ \nBikeDNA: A tool for Bicycle Infrastructure Data & Network Assessment\n2023-06-28\, 16:00–16:30 (Europe/Tirane)\, UBT C / N110 – Second Floor\n\n\nAccess to high-quality data on existing bicycle infrastructure is a requirement for evidence-based bicycle network planning\, which can support a green transition of human mobility. However\, this requirement is rarely met: Data from governmental agencies or crowdsourced projects like OpenStreetMap often suffer from unknown\, heterogeneous\, or low quality. Currently available tools for road network data quality assessment often fail to account for network topology\, spatial heterogeneity\, and bicycle-specific data characteristics. \nTo fill these gaps\, we introduce BikeDNA\, an open-source tool for reproducible quality assessment tailored to bicycle infrastructure data. BikeDNA performs either a standalone analysis of one data set or a comparative analysis between OpenStreetMap and a reference data set\, including feature matching. Data quality metrics are considered both globally for the entire study area and locally on grid cell\, thus exposing spatial variation in data quality with a focus on network structure and connectivity. Interactive maps and HTML/PDF reports are generated to facilitate the visual exploration and communication of results. \nBikeDNA is based on open-source python libraries and Jupyter notebooks\, requires minimal programming knowledge\, and supports data quality assessments for a wide range of applications – from urban planning to OpenStreetMap data improvement or transportation network research. In this talk we will introduce how to use BikeDNA to evaluate and improve local data sets on bicycle infrastructure\, examine what BikeDNA can teach us on the current state of data for active mobility\, and discuss the importance of local quality assessments to support increased uptake of open and crowd-sourced data.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/anastassia-at-foss4g/
CATEGORIES:NERDS away
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SUMMARY:Roberta at ISSI 2023
DESCRIPTION:Quantifying biases and inequalities in science\nEvery day our life is made easier by efficient measures and algorithms that quantify\, search\, and rank scientific information. Yet\, these measures and algorithms have an issue: they are trained on citations\, which are ingrained with human biases. Therefore the output is inherently biased too\, creating inequalities\, raising concerns of discrimination\, even harming growth. In this talk\, I focus on recent quantitative efforts in science studies to (1) uncover bias mechanisms in science\, (2) use this knowledge about biases to uncover inequalities in the scientific enterprise\, and (3) create fair metrics and algorithms. \nRoberta Sinatra is Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Copenhagen (KU)\, and holds visiting positions at IT University of Copenhagen (ITU)\, ISI Foundation (Turin\, Italy) and Complexity Science Hub (Vienna\, Austria). She co-founded the NEtwoRks\, Data\, and Society (NERDS) Research group at ITU\, which she led in 2019-2022\, and is a co-lead of the pioneer centre for AI in Copenhagen. Her research is at the forefront of network science\, data science\, and computational social science. Roberta did her BSc\, MSc and PhD in Physics at the University of Catania\, Italy. Her research has been published in top-tier venues like Nature and Science\, and has been featured in The New York Times\, Forbes\, The Economist\, The Guardian\, The Washington Post\, among other major media outlets. Her research has been awarded the Complex Systems Society Junior prize\, the DPG Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics\, and a Villum Young Investigator grant. \n 
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-at-issi-2023/
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SUMMARY:Anastassia at NetSci 2023
DESCRIPTION:https://easychair.org/smart-program/NetSci2023/2023-07-12.html#talk:224079 \nLuca Maria Aiello\, Sándor Juhász\, Anastassia Vybornova\, Eszter Bokányi and Michael Szell\nHighways are barriers to urban social connections\nPRESENTER: Anastassia Vybornova\n\nABSTRACT. Geographic distances influence social connections inside cities – even in our digital age [1\,2]. Both the perception of physical distance and the likelihood of forming social ties across locations are influenced by infrastructural elements\, as previous studies showed: public transport increases social connectivity along routes [3]; barriers to physical mobility influence the creation of social connections [4]. To directly investigate the impact of highways on social connections\, we analyse how the spatial configurations of a city’s social and infrastructural networks are correlated. We use a highly granular\, georeferenced social network of mutual follower relationships between Twitter users in the top 50 US metropolitan areas [5]. For each of these cities\, we create a gravity-law inspired configurational null model [6] that reflects the population density and distance distribution of users’ home locations. We then overlay the spatial network of social connections with the network of highways from OpenStreetMap\, and measure the average number of highways crossed by social network ties. We find that the probability of an edge crossing at least one highway is significantly lower for real social connections than for the null model\, and validate these findings by several multivariate regression models. Our results confirm that urban highways\, apart from causing spatial segregation patterns\, also have a directly measurable negative correlation with the density of social connections\, and unveil the importance of infrastructure to the study of increasing inequalities and social network fragmentation in urban areas.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/anastassia-at-netsci-2023/
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SUMMARY:Ane at Kortdage
DESCRIPTION:Kvalitetsanalyser af de danske cykelstidata\nAne Rahbek Vierø\n\nDanmark kaldes ofte for en “cykelnation“\, men afspejler det sig også i vores cykeldata? Mange ønsker i dag at arbejde mere strategisk med udbygningen af cykelinfrastruktur – herunder at gøre brug af GIS-analyser af de nuværende cykelforhold – men de tilgængelige data er ofte af varierende eller ukendt kvalitet\, hvilket sår tvivl om anvendeligheden af data og analyser. \nIndlægget vil præsentere highlights fra en landsdækkende analyse af kvaliteten af cykelinfrastruktur byggende på GeoDanmark- og OpenStreetMap-data. Analysen er baseret på en nyt open-source værktøj udviklet til formålet. I præsentation vil vi give eksempler på\, hvordan man kan bruge kvalitetsanalyser til at forstå muligheder og begrænsninger i egne cykeldata\, og komme med ideer til\, hvordan kvalitetsanalyser kan understøtte anvendelsen af crowdsourcede datasæt. \nGodkendte Abstracts
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/ane-at-kortdage/
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SUMMARY:Arianna at Complex Networks 2023
DESCRIPTION:The 12th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications\, Menton (French Riviera)\, 28-30 November 2023 \nExtended abstract 1 (poster): Tell Me Who You Are and I Will Predict Your Vulnerability to Political Persuasion Techniques w. Lucio La Cava and Alessia Antelmi\nGiven the evolving role of social media in political communication and the strategic use of these platforms by politicians to shape public opinion\, research has commonly focused on investigating computational propaganda as a means for automated information diffusion. Focusing on a less explored yet promising line\, we aim to assess political persuasion in digital contexts by introducing a computational framework that combines Natural Language Processing and Network Science methods to investigate the linkage between persuasion techniques on social media and personality traits of online political audiences. Our final goal is to enhance public awareness of political tactics and encourage critical thinking in response to the online spread of political information. \nExtended abstract 2 (lighting talk\, awarded as Best Lightning Talk): Finding Hidden Swingers in the 2022 Italian Elections Twitter Discourse w. Lucio La Cava and Alessia Antelmi\nThe volume of the Italian online political discourse on social media has recently increased\, but the coverage level does not compare with other Countries such as the US. Nonetheless\, researchers focused on studying polarization and homophily concerning political debates or investigating the role of populism in online engagement. In this research landscape\, the analysis of political preference shifts through social media remains to be explored. We aim to bridge this gap by examining the Twitter discourse during the 2022 Italian general elections\, with a specific emphasis on political “swingers”. In particular\, our findings indicate a stable political discourse in Italy\, yet they also uncover a growing presence of political swingers willing to shift their support to significantly different factions.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/arianna-at-complex-networks-2023/
CATEGORIES:NERDS away
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20231207T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20231207T123000
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SUMMARY:Roberta's Keynote at the CHR 2023
DESCRIPTION:Roberta gave a keynote talk at the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023 (CHR 2023). The conference is held in Paris\, 6-8 December 2023. Roberta’s gave an online keynote talk\, entitled “Quantifying the dynamics of impact in science and art”.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/robertas-keynote-at-the-chr-2023/
LOCATION:ÉCOLE POUR L’INFORMATIQUE ET LES TECHNIQUES AVANCÉES\, Paris\, France
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SUMMARY:Arianna at NetSciX24
DESCRIPTION:NetSciX24\, Venice (Italy)\, 22-25 January 2024 https://netscix2024.netscisociety.org/ \nExtended abstract (regular talk): The Storm Within: Hurricanes and Socio-Political Leaning in Climate Change Group Behavior w. Luca Maria Aiello\nClimate change is a pressing global crisis marked by a surge in extreme weather events\, requiring societal responses and mitigation efforts. Focusing on the significant events of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane season\, we scrutinize their impact on climate change-related group behavior on Reddit. By investigating topical discussion groups\, categorizing them based on socio-political leaning\, and analyzing their responses to climate change discourse\, our study aims to illuminate how extreme climate events influence engagement across diverse socio-political spectra. This examination contributes valuable insights into the dynamic interplay between climate crises and online discourse\, offering a nuanced perspective for effective climate communication and intervention strategies.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/arianna-at-netscix24/
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