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This is Part III of my series of posts about how to setup you blog with RStudio and blogdown. The other parts are: Part I about to setup the blog using Hugo, RStudio and blogdown Part II explains my workflow of creating new posts. Part III on how to modify the theme. Workflow In Part I of this series of post we setup our new blog using blogdown and Hugo. ...

Last month I migrated my blog from Wordpress to Hugo and blogdown. Now I can post from RStudio using R/markdown, which allow me to create interactive posts including R code. It has been such a good experience that I decide to write down how to do it with three posts to help others. This one about to setup the blog. Part II explains my workflow of creating new posts. and Part III on how to modify the theme. ...

Another edition of Netmob is happening this year 2019. NetMob is the primary conference in the analysis of mobile phone datasets in social, urban, societal and industrial problems. Previous editions in Boston and Milano brought together more than 250 researchers, practitioners and decision-makers from more 140 institutions and 30 countries. I had the pleasure to organize the 2015 edition and it was a blast to put together so much interesting talks, people, projects. ...

Some pictures of different activities during this year 2018 A group of us from Scallable Cooperation group at MediaLab visited Riyad, Abu Dhabi and Dubai to talk about Future of Work. Complenet happenned in Boston this year. Here I am talking about how do you met your best friend? I was an invited speaker at NERCCS 2018 conference to talk about our work on the dynamics of strong ties A bunch of network scientist close to the Netsci 2018 venue ...

Authors: Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Abhimanyu Dubey, Peter Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex `Sandy' Pentland Journal: Preprint (2018). arXiv Abstract: In this empirical paper, we investigate how learning agents can be arranged in more efficient communication topologies for improved learning. This is an important problem because a common technique to improve speed and robustness of learning in deep reinforcement learning and many other machine learning algorithms is to run multiple learning agents in parallel. ...

I started using Twitter more than 10 years ago (!). I open an account in this social network in 2008 and although I was not using it too much for the first year, I become a frequent user after that. It has helped me to get news, information both for my personal and professional interests. But not only that, Twitter has been also the data source for our research, that helped us to investigate the relationship between human behavior in the social platform and paramount problems in our society as information propagation, unemployment, disaster damage, political opinion. ...