Network Science for kids!

One of my favorite activities is to teach my field or research (network science) to high-schoolers. We (together with my colleague Cristina Brändle) have been doing that from our university to the local high schools in Madrid. Since they know concepts like equations, probability or geometry, it is somehow easy to show them concepts like what is a network, small world, friendship paradox or centrality. We usually have transparencies and allow them to work on Excel to perform some calculations which works well to understand the basic concepts of networks. ...

#Twitter #Human Behavior

Twitter Session Analytics: Profiling Users’ Short-Term Behavioral Changes

Authors: Farshad Kooti, Esteban Moro, and Kristina Lerman Journal: Proceedings of SocInfo 2016 LINK Abstract: Human behavior shows strong daily, weekly, and monthly patterns. In this work, we demonstrate online behavioral changes that occur on a much smaller time scale: minutes, rather than days or weeks. Specifically, we study how people distribute their effort over different tasks during periods of activity on the Twitter social platform. We demonstrate that later in a session on Twitter, people prefer to per- form simpler tasks, such as replying and retweeting others’ posts, rather than composing original messages, and they also tend to post shorter messages. ...

#Twitter #Social Networks

El romance entre Twitter y la ciencia

Nice article (in Spanish) in Yorokobu magazine about the use of Twitter in science, highlighting our work on the use of social media for rapid assessment of natural disaster management El romance entre Twitter y la ciencia «Twitter y las otras redes sociales están entre los más grandes archivos de actividad humana existentes y, al contrario que con las encuestas, ahora tenemos la posibilidad de analizar millones de mensajes, opiniones e interacciones de personas en diferentes contextos como la política, economía o el ocio», explica el matemático Esteban Moro, investigador en la Carlos III de Madrid. ...

#2016

2016 pictures

Some pictures of different activities during this year 2016 I was invited to give a tutorial about temporal networs at the Workshop on Complex Network Mining and Analysis in Workclaw. Here we are hanging out with some of the other speakers (Bruno Goncalves and Marton Karsai) Just arrived to Boston, I gave a talk at Netsi about our work on Temporal Networks at Netsci, Northeastern University. Working at the Medialab I got the opportunity to talk about our work in other groups, like Scalable Cooperation here. ...