As more and more of our day-to-day activities have moved online, we have begun to leave digital traces of decisions and preferences — moods, friendships, preferences among potential dates — that had previously been all but invisible. Join Professor David Liben-Nowell as he presents: “Tie game: Making connections with social networks”. He will describe a few highlights of the emerging research area of computational social science and talk briefly about how current students are exploring this topic in the Carleton curriculum.
This program took place on Wednesday, April 18, 2012