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#UMTweetCon2019

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A Conference on the Use of Twitter Data for Research and Analytics

 

#UMTweetCon2019 will connect U-M scholars across a diverse set of disciplines in an interdisciplinary exchange about common challenges and lessons learned. We further seek to facilitate new connections to help U-M scholars create opportunities for future joint research, collaborative grant writing, training and other activities. Conference attendance will be open to anyone interested in learning about the wide array of Twitter data applications in current research at the University. The conference is sponsored by the Social Science and Social Media Collaborative, the Michigan Institute for Data Science, the #Parenting Rackham Interdisciplinary Group, and coordinated by the Center for Political Studies and the Institute for Social Research.

Call for Abstracts

Do you use Twitter data in your research? Then, you are invited to submit an abstract for the first

 university wide conference at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint) on the use of Twitter data in research and analytics. #UMTweetCon2019 will connect U-M scholars across a diverse set of disciplines in an interdisciplinary exchange about common challenges and lessons learned. We further seek to facilitate new connections to help U-M scholars create opportunities for future joint research, collaborative grant writing, training and other activities. Conference attendance will be open to anyone interested in learning about the wide array of Twitter data applications in current research at the University.

To reflect the wide range of ongoing research across disciplines, we invite submissions that 1) directly examine dynamics of Tweet behavior and Twitter networks, 2) explore the representativeness and validity of Twitter data for making scientific inference, 3) develop new computational methodology for obtaining, processing, or archiving Twitter data, or 4) present applications of Twitter data for studying diverse social phenomena. During the 2-day conference, research presentations will be complemented with participatory sessions to provide participants with an opportunity to plan future activities and help create a regular user community across campuses (e.g., seminar series, computational training sessions, hackathons, regular coding meetups, etc.)

Interested U-M researchers are asked to use the form linked here to submit a short abstract of 200-300 words in length that describes their research project, along with information about participating co-authors. Submissions are due by Friday April 12, 2019.

Click here to submit an abstract for a panel or poster presentation.

Attending #UMTweetCon2019 will require a small, non-refundable registration fee from presenters and attendees alike (students/post-docs: $15 pre-conference online, $20 on-site; faculty/staff/other: $30 pre-conference online, $40 on-site). Presenters and attendees from Dearborn and Flint campuses will receive a registration discount (students/post-docs: $15, faculty/staff/other: $20). We will use the revenue from registration fees to fund best paper awards.

MIDAS researchers’ papers accepted at ACM KDD data science conference in London

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Several U-M faculty affiliated with MIDAS will participate in the KDD2018 Conference in London in August. The meeting is held by the Associate for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).

U-M researchers had the following papers accepted:

Learning Adversarial Networks for Semi-Supervised Text Classification via Policy Gradient
Yan Li (U-M); Jieping Ye (U-M)

TINET: Learning Invariant Networks via Knowledge Transfer
Chen Luo (Rice University); Zhengzhang Chen (NEC Laboratories America); Lu-An Tang (NEC Laboratories America); Anshumali Shrivastava (Rice University); Zhichun Li (NEC Laboratories America); Haifeng Chen (NEC Laboratories America); Jieping Ye (U-M)

Modeling Task Relationships in Multi-task Learning with Multi-gate Mixture-of-Experts
Jiaqi Ma(U-M); Zhe Zhao (Google); Xinyang Yi (Google); Jilin Chen (Google); Lichan Hong (Google); Ed Chi (Google)

Learning Credible Models
Jiaxuan Wang (U-M); Jeeheh Oh (U-M); Haozhu Wang (U-M); Jenna Wiens (U-M)

Deep Multi-Output Forecasting: Learning to Accurately Predict Blood Glucose Trajectories
Ian Fox (U-M); Lynn Ang (U-M); Mamta Jaiswal (U-M); Rodica Pop-Busui (U-M); Jenna Wiens (U-M)

ActiveRemediation: The Search for Lead Pipes in Flint, Michigan
Jacob Abernethy (Georgia Institute of Technology); Alex Chojnacki (U-M); Arya Farahi (U-M); Eric Schwartz (U-M); Jared Webb (Brigham Young University)

Career Transitions and Trajectories: A Case Study in Computing
Tara Safavi (U-M); Maryam Davoodi (Purdue University); Danai Koutra (U-M)

In addition, U-M Professor Jieping Ye will present at the event’s Artificial Intelligence in Transportation tutorial, and U-M Assistant Professor Qiaozhu Mei will speak as part of Deep Learning Day.

MIDAS Learning Analytics Challenge Symposium

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Learning analytics is one of the research focus areas that MIDAS supports with its Challenge Awards.  Our long-term goal is to support this research area more broadly, using the Challenge Award projects as the starting point to build a critical mass.  This symposium offers a platform for all participants to explore collaboration opportunities and aims to attract more researchers to our hub.  It will feature in-depth presentations from two Challenge Award teams, and all participants are encouraged to submit posters on research related to Learning Analytics.

Agenda

9 am to 11:30 am: Welcome and Challenge Award presentations

11:30 am to 1 pm: Lunch, Poster Session, Networking [poster dimensions: up to 6ft wide X 4ft height]

1 to 2 pm: Panel discussion: The Future of Data Science for Learning Analytics at U-M

Panelists:

  • Steve DesJardins, Education, Public Policy
  • Cynthia Finelli, Engineering Education Research Program
  • Al Hero (Moderator), MIDAS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Rada Mihalcea, Computer Science Engineering
  • Stephanie Teasley, Information

 

Please register online.  Please submit poster abstracts (< 300 words).  Submission Deadline: May 15.

For questions: midas-research@umich.edu.

Recommended Visitor Parking:  Palmer Parking StructurePalmer Drive, Ann Arbor

ASA Symposium on Data Science & Statistics

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SAVE THE DATE FOR SDSS 2018!

Beyond Big Data: Leading the Way

The ASA’s newest conference, the Symposium on Data Science & Statistics, will take place in Reston, Virginia, May 16-19, 2018. The symposium is designed for data scientistscomputer scientists, and statisticians analyzing and visualizing complex data.

The annual SDSS will combine data science and statistical machine learning with the historical strengths of the Interface Foundation of North America (IFNA) in computational statistics, computing science, and data visualization. It will continue the IFNA’s tradition of excellence by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and establish new collaborations.

Offering sessions centered on the following six topic areas:
Data Science                                            Data Visualization
Machine Learning                                  Computing Science
Computational Statistics                      Applications

Key Dates:
December 5, 2017 – Contributed and E-Poster Online Abstract Submission Opens
January 18, 2018 – Contributed and E-Poster Online Abstract Submission Closes
February 1, 2018 – Conference Registration Opens

ASA Conference: Women in Statistics and Data Science, La Jolla, California

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The American Statistical Association invites you to join us at the 2017 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference in La Jolla, California—the only conference for the field tailored specifically for women!

Join us to “share WISDOM (Women in Statistics, Data science, and -OMics).”

WSDS will gather professionals and students from academia, industry, and the government working in statistics and data science. Find unique opportunities to grow your influence, your community, and your knowledge.

Whether you are a student, early-career professional, or an experienced statistician or data scientist, this conference will deliver new knowledge and connections in an intimate and comfortable setting.

Learn More!

Women in Data Science

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In partnership with Stanford University, MIDAS will participate in the 2017 Women in Data Science conference, with faculty presentations on campus and a simulcast of the conference proceedings from Stanford.

Speakers at U-M are:

  • Amy Cohn, Associate Professor, Industrial and Operational Engineering, Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, U-M
  • Stephanie Teasley, Research Professor, School of Information, Learning Education and Design Lab, U-M
  • Yi Lu Murphey, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U-M Dearborn
  • Emily Mower-Provost, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U-M
  • Mingyan Liu, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U-M
  • Yao Xie, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, U-M
  • Moderator: Anna Gilbert, Professor, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U-M

Women in Data Science Conference — Feb. 3, Michigan League

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In partnership with Stanford University, MIDAS will participate in the 2017 Women in Data Science Conference, with live speakers on campus and a simulcast of the conference proceedings from Stanford.

Speakers at the U-M event include Amy Cohn (COE), Stephanie Teasley (SI), Yi Lu Murphey (ECE-Dearborn), and Yao Xie (Georgia Institute of Technology).

For more information, including registration, visit the U-M WIDS page.