Online Hackathon/mini-Workshop on Network Analysis

Mon, March 23, 2020 8:00 AM - Mon, March 23, 2020 12:00 PM at Zoom

These are anxious times, and we need to connect with our various communities even as we also take precautions against COVID-19.  The data analytics community is forging right along, and CBSA is excited to be a part of the Network Analysis Workshop on Monday, March 23, from 8am until noon.  This workshop was originally going to be in-person, but now will be conducted online using Zoom (connection details below).

Professor Ken Frank has brought together an engaged group of scholars to discuss intermediate to advanced network analysis topics as they apply to the spread of COVID-19 and the spread of information and human response to COVID-19.  Several of us will be giving talks about different dimensions of this.  There will be some quick and dirty network analysis hacking, framed around a set of questions.  The goal is to develop those research questions and flesh out responses to them.  There is interest in the possibility of developing the outcome of the workshop into one or more proposals, perhaps to NSF.

There are a couple of presentations planned, if you are interested more in hearing those than in the research question hackathon; below are the tentative times for different aspects of this event:

• 08:00-08:15 Overview [Ken Frank]
• 08:15-08:40 Background on coronavirus, social aspects [Nigel Paneth] https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/03/03/one-way-to-predict-the-spread-of-covid-19-follow-the-memes/
• 08:40-08:50 Set up SNA [Ken Frank]
  Quick ideas (being developed for NSF RAPID proposals)
• 08:50-09:10 How will teams work virtually? [Sinem Mollaoglu]
• 09:15-09:35 How will people seek resources on Pinterest? [Kaitlin Torphy]
• 09:35-10:00 Break, side conversations
• 10:00-10:20 Spatial aspect [Ashton Shortridge]
• 10:20-10:40 Structure for hackathon [Ken Frank]
  Motivating Questions:
  Q1) How will individuals react? What systemic structures (patterns in networks) will emerge?            Polarization? Politics?
  Q2) How will spread and reaction to virus affect other behaviors and systems?
  Q3) Other?
  Q4) Outside the corona virus?
• 10:30-end Hackathon
  Break-out “rooms” by research questions

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