Agenda

Check-in (Datathon and Workshop participants)

Check-in (General Session participants)

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Training Workshop 1a: Jackie Milhans - Lead Computational Specialist, Northwestern University
          Computational Research Fundamentals

Training Workshop 1b: Stuart Shulman - Texifter, LLC
          Text Analytics for Social Data Using DiscoverText & Sifter

Datathon Working Session: Laura Norén - Center for Data Science, New York University

Lunch

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Training Workshop 2a: Lorien Jasny - National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland
          Social Network Analysis Using R

Training Workshop 2b: Brian Lange - Data Scientist, Datascope Analytics
          Natural Language Processing and Text Analysis in Python 

Datathon Working Session: Laura Norén - Center for Data Science, New York University

Break & Pizza (Workshop and Datathon participants)

Datathon Working Session: Laura Norén - Center for Data Science, New York University

Check-in

Exhibits: Poster Session, Art and Booths
(Poster Session Q & A scheduled for 10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.)

Breakfast

Opening remarks
Laura Nelson, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Laura Norén, Center for Data Science, New York University

Concurrent Sessions 1
a) New Tools for Collecting Data

• Michelle Birkett - Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
  NetCanvas: An Engaging Tool for Capturing Complex Network Data for Use in Clinical Research
  (with Joshua Melville, Bernie Hogan - University of Oxford, Gregory Phillips II, Patrick Janulis, Brian Mustanski, Noshir Contractor - Northwestern University)
• Jason Radford - Sociology, University of Chicago
  Conducting Massively Open Online Social Experiments with Volunteer Science
  (with David Lazer, Waleed Meleis, Brook Foucault Wells - Northeastern University, Brian Keegan - Harvard University, Jefferson Hoye - Independent)
• Darren Stevenson - Communication Studies, University of Michigan
  Using Online Advertising Networks to Study Human Behavior
  (with Joseph Bayer, University of Michigan) 
• Griffin Weber - Center for Biomedical Informatics at Countway, Harvard Medical School
  Analyzing Collaboration Across a University Using Profiles Research Networking Software

b) Politics and Social Movements

• Lucas da Silva Almeida - Complex Systems Modelling, University of São Paulo
  E-Fixing Government: Using Data to Solve Machiavellian Problems
  
• Jiawei Sophia Fu - Communications, Northwestern University
  A Longitudinal Examination of Environmental NGOs' Networks on Twitter
• Eunkyung Song - Sociology, Rutgers University
  The Fifteen Days: The Meaning of Mad Cow Disease in the 2008 Candlelight Protests, Korea
• Amanda Stevenson - Sociology & Population Research Center, University of Texas-Austin
  Emotions and Social Movement Ties Among Texas Abortion Activists

c) Jobs, Markets, and Organizations

• John Atwell - Sociology and Complex Systems, University of Michigan
  Markets as Sites of Constructive Processes
• Anamaria Berea - Krasnow Institute, George Mason University
  Social Media Drivers & Crowdfunding Success
  (with Brent Goldfarb, David Kirsch, William Rand - University of Maryland)
• Ágnes Horvát - Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University
  Market vs Network Relations: The Role of Friends in the Early Stages of Bidding in Crowdfunding
  (with Jay Uparna, Brian Uzzi - Northwestern University)
• Jerry Kim - Columbia Business School, Columbia University
  Incentives and Inequality: Evidence from Gamification in a Restaurant Chain
  (with Bruce Kogut - Columbia University, Ian Larkin - University of California-Los Angeles)
• Ming Leung - Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley
  For Love or Money? Gender Differences in How One Approaches Getting a Job
  (with Weiyi Ng - University of California-Berkeley)

d) Measuring Network Dynamics I

• Joshua Becker - Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
  Collective Decisions as Coordination Processes: The Influence of Hubs
• Forrest W. Crawford - Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health
  Reconstructing Hidden Social Networks from Partial Link-Tracing Data
• Bryan Daniels - Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Critical Behavior in a Small-Scale, Heterogeneous, Collective, Social System
  (with David Krakauer - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jessica Flack - Santa Fe Institute)
• Jake C. Fisher - Sociology, Duke University
  Social Space Diffusion
• Lorien Jasny - National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland
  Two-Mode Brokerage in Policy Networks (with Mark Lubell - University of California-Davis)

Coffee Break/Snacks

Concurrent Sessions 2
a) Thematic Panel: Network Science, Machine Learning, and Interactive Data Visualization: Tools to Study Cultural Production

• Noah Askin - INSEAD, Michael Mauskapf - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  Cultural Networks as a Means to Map the Emergence and Evolution of Genres
  (with Brian Uzzi - Northwestern University)
• Fernando Cucchietti - Scientific Visualization Team, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
  Visualizing Popularity and Influence in Popular Music
• Ágnes Horvát - Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University
  A Cookbook of Cinematic Delicacies that Do Not Expire
  (with Andreas Spitz - Heidelberg University)
• Bryan Pardo - McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
  Crowdsourcing Audio Production Interfaces

b) Computational Text Analytic Approaches to Political Sociology

• Jessica Burow - Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Police Prejudice Spread on Twitter: The Ferguson Verdict
  (with Soundararajan Rajendran - University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Joseph DiGrazia - Neukom Institute & Sociology, Dartmouth College
  The Social Determinants of Conspiratorial Ideation
• Alex Hanna - Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Developing a System for the Automated Coding of Protest Event Data
• Laura Nelson - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  On Targets and Tactics: The Transformation of the US Environmental Movement Between 1998 and 2014
  (with Brayden King - Northwestern University)
• Charles Sequin & Brandon Gorman - Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  Reporting the International System: Foreign Leaders in the US News Media

c) Collaborations, Networks, and Success I

• Sabine Brunswicker - Research Center for Open Digital Innovation, Purdue University
  Decomposing the ‘Architecture’ of Innovative Mobility Solutions developed by a Civic Innovation Crowd: A Network Perspective
  (with Chien-Yi Hsiang - Purdue University)
• Jingbo Meng - Communication, Michigan State University
  Your Health Buddies Matter: Preferential Selection and Social Influence on Weight Management in an Online Health Network
• João Moreira - McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
  Using the Discrete Lognormal Distribution to Quantify the Scientific Impact of Individual Researchers
  (with Xiao Han T. Zeng, Luís A. Nunes Amaral - Northwestern University)
• Satyam Mukherjee - Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University
  The Lens of Time: Linking Prior Knowledge and Future Impact in Science, Patenting and Law
  (with Daniel Romero - University of Michigan, Benjamin Jones, Brian Uzzi-Northwestern University)
• Li Yu - McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
  Collaborative Evaluation for Improving Group Decision Robust
  (with Haiyan Zhang, Zezhong Zhang - Renmin University of China, Beijing)

d) Re-imagining Methods

• Mark Fossett - Sociology, Texas A&M University
  Assessing Residential Segregation in Computational Models: Solutions to Problems of Measuring Segregation at Small Spatial Scales
• Sorin Adam Matei - Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University
  Stepwise Segmented Regression Analysis: An Iterative Statistical Algorithm to Detect and Quantify Evolutionary and Revolutionary Transformations in Longitudinal Data
  (with Brian Britt - South Dakota State University)
• Adam R. Pah - McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
  Longitudinal Analysis of Shooting Incidents at Schools in the USA
  (with Andrew Jennings, Luís A. Nunes Amaral - Northwestern University)
• Misha Teplitskiy - Sociology, University of Chicago
  How Film is Sociological Knowledge: Reanalysis of GSS Findings with Alternative Models and Out-of-Sample Data, 1972-2012
  (with James Evans - University of Chicago)
• Lawrence L. Wu - Sociology, New York University
  Enhancing Plausibility and Interpretability of Cause-Specific Models of Mortality
  (with Steven P. Martin - Urban Institute)

Lunch

Concurrent Sessions 3
a) Thematic Panel: Understanding and Overcoming Empirical Constraints in Computational Analysis of Online Trace Data

• Shane Greenstein - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Eszter Hargittai - School of Communication, Northwestern University
• Aaron Shaw - School of Communication, Northwestern University

b) Power and Politics Online

• Tyler A. Crabb & Erin Smith Crabb - Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park
  Strings Attached: The Sociology of Non-Human, Digital Personas
• Anne Groggel - Sociology, Indiana University
  A Gendered Public Sphere: Who’s Heard the Most in Twitter
  (with Peter Lista, Shirin Nilizadeh, Pranay Sogani, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia, Fabio Rojas - Indiana University)
• Sorin Adam Matei - Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University
  Leadership Resilience and Structural Differentiation in Social Media Spaces: A Socio-computational Analysis
  (with Wutao Wei, Chuanhai Liu, Michael Zhu, Elisa Bertino - Purdue University, Brian Britt - South Dakota State University)
• Harsh Taneja - Journalism, University of Missouri
  User-centric Ethnological Mapping on the WWW: A Network Analytic Approach
  (with Angela Xiao Wu - Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Ion Bogdan Vasi - Sociology and College of Business, University of Iowa
  'No Fracking Way!' Media Activism, Discursive Opportunities and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010-2013
  (with Edward Walker - University of California-Davis, John Johnson - Harmony Institute, Sarah Tan - Cornell)

c) Language, Culture, and Community

• Kenneth Joseph - Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  Culture, Networks, Twitter and Foursquare: Testing a Model of Cultural Conversion with Social Media Data
  (with Kathleen M. Carley - Carnegie Mellon University)
• Azadeh Nematzadeh - Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
  Where to Eat or What to Eat? Examining Urban Food Exploration through Yelp Reviews
  (with Soheil Jazayeri, Maitaporn Phanich, Peter Todd, Yong-Yeol Ahn - Indiana University)
• Sheela Pandey - Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD), Arizona State University
  Application of Natural Language Processing Capabilities in Computerized Textual Analysis: An Illustration Using the Organizational Culture Construct 
  (with Sanjay K. Pandey - George Washington University)
• Aleksandr Sinayev - Psychology, Ohio State University
  Assessing News Objectivity Using Movie Synopses and Reviews
• Sameer Srivastava - Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley
  Fitting In or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness
  (with Amir Goldberg, V. Govind Manian, William Monroe, Christopher Potts - Stanford University)

d) Social Media and Public Policy

• Aron Culotta - Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Identifying and Controlling for Demographic Confounders in Social Media Analysis
• Libby Hemphill - Communication and Information Studies, Illinois Institute of Technology
  The Measuring Partisanship Using Social Media Content
• Matthew Shapiro - Political Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Government Interference and Citizen-based Environmental NGOs in China

Datathon Judging & Award Presentation

Break

Keynote: David Ferrucci, Bridgewater Associates
"Artificial Intelligence: A Return To Meaning"
Please note that no livestream will be available for this keynote.

Reception

Poster Session & Exhibits

Breakfast

Concurrent Sessions 4
a) Making Sense of Big Data

• James Allen Evans - Sociology, University of Chicago
  Can We Agree on Science? Evidence from Amazon.com Co-Purchase Data
  (with Bill Shi - University of Chicago, Fedor Dokshin, Yongren Shi, Michael Macy - Cornell University)
• Brian Keegan - The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
  First Among Equals: The Emergence and Evolution of Wikipedia's Networked Policy Regime
• Stasa Milojevic - Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
  Quantifying the Knowledge Domain of Science
• Balazs Vedres, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University
  Creative Tensions and Success in the Network of Video Game Developers
  (with Mathijs DeVaan, David Stark - Columbia University)

b) Using Computational Methods to Improve Health Care

• Subrina Farah - Family Medicine Research Programs, University of Rochester
  Quantitative Assessment of Patient Satisfaction Survey: A Multivariate Approach
• Aditya S. Khanna - Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
  Identifying Peer Change Agents on a Large Social Network
• Ricky Leung - University of SUNY-Albany
  Building Mobile Apps for Underrepresented Mental Health Patients
  (with Julia Hastings, Keith Chan - SUNY-Albany, Robert Keefe - SUNY-Buffalo, Carol Brownstein-Evans - Nazareth College, Rosemary Mullick - SUNY-Polytechnic Institute)
• H. Andrew Schwartz - Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
  Predicting America’s Top Killers: Exploring Country-level Mortality Rates in the Language of Twitter
  (with Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Maarten Sap, Gregory Park, Raina Merchant, Lyle H. Ungar - University of Pennsylvania)
• Rebecca Jen-Hui Wang - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  Emergency Department Revisits and Patient Welfare: A Recommendation to Healthcare Providers on Analyzing Visit Data
  (with Vikram Kilambi, Sanjay Mehrotra - Northwestern University, Peter Pang - Indiana University)

c) Collaborations, Networks, and Success II

• Samantha Cohen - Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
  Speed-Networking: An Academic Equalizer for Underrepresented Individuals
  (with Peter M. Todd - Indiana University)
• Carla Fernandez-Corrales - College of Business, University of Illinois-Urbana 
  A Tree Induction Analysis of Exclusivity in Technology Licensing
  (with Deepak Somaya, Ramanath Subramanyam - University of Illinois-Urbana, Prasanna Karhade - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
• Alina Lungeanu - Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group, Northwestern University
  Team Assembly in New Scientific Fields: A Computational Modelling Approach
  (with Sophia Sullivan - Think Big, Noshir Contractor - Northwestern University)
• Michael J. Prietula - Goizueta Business School, Emory University
  The Hazards of Interaction: When Isolation and Inertia Benefit Performance
  (with Sheen Levine - University of Texas-Dallas)
• Xiaolin Zhuo & Robert Manduca - Sociology, Harvard University 
  Multi-Dimensional Diversity and Team Performance in a Cultural Market
  (with Kwan Woo Kim - Harvard University)

d) Measuring Network Dynamics II

• Brenda Berkelaar - Communication Studies, University of Texas-Austin
  How Network Structures Influence Career Metaphors and Agency 
• Hilla Brot - Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University
  Evolution through Bursts: Network Structure Develops through Localized Bursts in Time and Space
• Devin Gaffney - Network Science, Northeastern University
  Exploring the Role of Geographic Diffusion in Viral Cascades
• Varsha S. Kulkarni - Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
  Temporal Evolution of Social Innovation
• Hyojun A. Lee - McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
  Adoption of High-Cost Medical Innovations within Specialty Physician Groups
  (with Adam R. Pah, Luís A. Nunes Amaral - Northwestern University)

Lunch

Closing remarks
Noshir Contractor, School of Communication and SONIC, Northwestern University
Brian Uzzi, Kellogg School of Management and NICO, Northwestern University