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by Anna Cunningham
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Join the VigLink team for a 1 hour talk by Dr. Andrew Fast on Link Analysis, Social Network Analysis and Relational Data Mining.
Overview
The rise of social media including blogs, microblogs, "folksonomies', forums, and photo sharing has led to unprecedented visibility into the social connections between the users of those systems. Data mining and other data modeling algorithms are a... [read more]
Join the VigLink team for a 1 hour talk by Dr. Andrew Fast on Link Analysis, Social Network Analysis and Relational Data Mining.
Overview
The rise of social media including blogs, microblogs, "folksonomies', forums, and photo sharing has led to unprecedented visibility into the social connections between the users of those systems. Data mining and other data modeling algorithms are a natural choice for those seeking to improve the experience of social media users. These algorithms, however, typically assume that the data are both independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.), assumptions that are both clearly violated in social network data. In this talk, Dr. Fast will highlight three methods for understanding and exploring network data:
visualization
disruptive modeling
predictive modeling
Using case studies drawn from national security and financial domains, he shows how to combine these methods to fully leverage available connections in the data--improving lift and predictive accuracy over traditional data mining algorithms.
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