Networks, Data, and Society (NERDS)

NERDS @ Techfest: The Future of Social Media Data Research
2019-09-07 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Rysensteen, Flæsketorvet 60, 1711 København, Flæsketorvet 60, , København, 1711, Denmark
We’re participating at Techfest 2019 a 3-day festival in Copenhagen with 200+ events on humans and technology.
We will coordinate a session about The Future of Social Media Data Research: Let’s Do It Right When it Comes to Data, Privacy and Public-Interest
Session presentation:
Social media has become a central data source for the study of individual as well as societal issues. The unprecedented scale and granularity of this type of data allow researchers to observe social dynamics as they unfold and hold high potential. Nevertheless, recent scandals and data-breaches such as in the case of Cambridge Analytica, and the social media platforms’ reaction, have shown the potential contradictions underlying this kind of research. Who holds the right to do public-interest research on this data? How to make it freely available for researchers? Who should be hold accountable?
This session will discuss these questions that will play a central role in shaping the future of research in many fields.

Roberta @ Metascience Conference 2019
2019-09-04 - 2019-09-08 | Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Roberta will give an invited talk at the Metascience Conference 2019, hosted at Stanford University, in Palo Alto.

This is the topic of the conference:
During this decade, we have witnessed the emergence of a new discipline called metascience, metaresearch, or the science of science. Most exciting is the fact that this is emerging as a truly interdisciplinary enterprise with contributors from every domain of research. This symposium serves as a formative meeting for metascience as a discipline. The meeting will bring together leading scholars that are investigating questions related to themes such as:

How do scientists generate ideas?
How are our statistics, methods, and measurement practices affecting our capacity to identify robust findings?
Does the distinction between exploratory and confirmatory research matter?
What is replication and its impact and its value?
How do scientists interpret and treat evidence?
What are the cultures and norms of science?

Cambridge Network Day, University of Cambridge
2019-08-29 | Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Roberta gave an invited talk at Cambridge Network Day, the yearly conference of the Cambridge Networks Network, at the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Networks Day 2019 is the sixth of our annual meetings on the topic of complex networks. It is an occasion for the research community to exchange ideas and expertise, intended to spark interdisciplinary collaborations. The day will include a diverse set of talks by invited speakers highlighting interest- ing new directions in the field of complex networks, as well as a poster session. We hope the day’s events will strengthen the interdisciplinary links between researchers and promote communication within the community.

ASONAM 2019 (4 Talks)
2019-08-27 - 2019-08-30
Presenting:
– Benchmarking API Systems for Social Media Data Collection
– Discovering Communities of Community Discovery
– The Impact of Projection and Backboning on Network Analysis
– Investigating Community Discovery Similarity Measures’ Behaviors

NERDS at Lipari Complex Networks workshop
2019-07-13 - 2019-07-19
NERDS Michele Coscia, Roberta Sinatra, and Michael Szell were invited to present their research at the workshop “Complex networks: from socio-economic systems to biology and brain” from the 13th to the 19th of July in Lipari.

Talk Michael Szell at Data Beers Copenhagen
2019-05-23 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | Byens Lys, Fabriksområdet 99, Copenhagen, 1440
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”.

Luca Rossi public talk: @Demokratisk disruption 2018/2019
2019-05-21 | Bornholm
In the context of MandagMorgen’s talks series on the future of Democracy NERDS member Luca Rossi will give a keynote about Social Media echo-chambers and the risk for democracy. The event will be organized on the Danish island of Bornholm: more details here.

Invited talk Dominique Boullier
2019-05-16 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | ITU, 3A08, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, København, 2300, Denmark
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”

Roundtable talk Roberta Sinatra at Monte Carlo Prix Femme de l’année
2019-05-04 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
NERDS member Roberta Sinatra will give a keynote roundtable talk on May 4th in Monaco on her research on the Science of Success, at the Monte Carlo Prix Femme de l’année.
Attendants include Princess Charlene of Monaco.
