I’m attending the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Modeling Social Network Data on January 28th and 29th, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA.
Some of the content may be more on the data modeling level - but I’ve found that I can take in the basic points well enough and I’m keen to learn if there’s a way of organizing social network data that I might be able to tap into via the Analytics accessible to me - or just finding a new way to look at information.
On another level, I’ve been to several conferences this year, though I’m not going to SES Chicago or LeWeb3 08 (wish I could but fact of the matter, LeWeb3 is all out of pocket and last year, as a member of the Press, I was treated OK, but would have liked more access to events surrounding LeWeb, and that didn’t happen - for me to go now I’d need to know it’s really worth it - given the Global Recession and all - and I got the impression from what I’m seeing around me, this is not the time to take trips that don’t yield a definite return - and Paris would just be a repeat of Museum visits to the Louvre - but I’m not sure I need to go back just for that - just now), so I might as well attend a conference that is somewhat different and fairly close by - therefore, inexpensive for me.
Here’s the information about the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Modeling Social Network Data :
Please note, registrants must be invited to the event and students are admitted only through special arrangement. Space is limited.
This conference will be the first to convene leading experts from industry and academia to help define, build mathematical models for, and provide ways to better utilize data arising from social networks. More specifically, we will focus on:
(i) leading-edge methods for building, comparing, and evaluating models for analyzing data,
(ii) discussing approaches for the subsequent monetization via improved prediction and resource allocation, and
(iii) helping practitioners develop best practices to explore network value and establish standards. The conference will be comprised of presentations of new research papers by top scholars, as well as panel discussions featuring leading practitioners.
Join this esteemed group of speakers as we dig deep into the meaning of data generated by this global phenomenon.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Asim Ansari, Columbia
Michael Braun, MIT
David Godes, Harvard
Wes Hartmann, Stanford
Raghu Iyengar, Wharton
Dina Mayzlin, Yale
Vishal Singh, NYU
Andrew Stephen, Columbia
Olivier Toubia, Columbia
Catherine Tucker, MIT
Russ Winer, NYU
In addition to the live presentations we will build a repository of research papers in multi-media formats.
I hardly make it over to Philadelphia - last year I stopped by for a few hours on my way back to NYC from Washington, to see a friend - yet Philadelphia is pretty close to NYC, relatively speaking.
I’ll also be going to see The Barnes Foundation sometime in December - haven’t been over to The Barnes in a long time and it’s time to go again, for a visit to Marion, PA.
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