Prof. Dominique Boullier from EPFL will visit ITU on May 16th. You're invited to attend his lunchtime talk "Digital Propagations and Memetics as a New Opportunity for Quantification in Social Sciences, with the Help of Data Science"
The first edition of Data Beers Copenhagen will feature five talks, one of them given by NERDS member Michael Szell on "Understanding wasted mobility space with crowdsourced urban data".
Prof. Carlos Gershenson from IINAS::UNAM will visit ITU on Sep 12th. You're invited to attend his lunchtime talk "Heterogeneity extends criticality".
NERDS members Roberta and Michael co-organize the second DataBeers event.
Abstract: Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the use of mobile apps on smartphones and tablets. With over 2.7 billion smartphone users across the world checking their phones over 80 times a day, smartphone data offer a unique opportunity to understand main aspects of human behaviors, e.g., mobility, sleep patterns, and mobile app […]
Abstract: The analysis of complex online information requires the availability of rich data representation models and data analysis algorithms, for example multilayer networks and multilayer network clustering methods. At the same time, data analysis processes often require the ability to store raw data not yet prepared to perform a specific type of analysis, the possibility […]
The first and newest postdoc of NERDS, Tiago Oliveira Cunha, will introduce and discuss his work in a lunch seminar on Friday, Jan 24th, 12:15-13:00 in the 4E wing. Are All Successful Communities Alike? Characterizing and Predicting the Success of Online Communities The proliferation of online communities has created exciting opportunities to study the mechanisms […]