October 2013 - Dm-meeting - mailman.cs.vt.edu

Thursday, Oct 31st @ 1pm
by yaozhang 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Hi guys, Just reminder that we will have the regular meeting next Thursday (Oct 31) 1pm at 3160a Torg. (conference room). Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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SDM and WWW papers for review
by B. Aditya Prakash 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

Hi everyone, Here are some SDM/WWW papers to review: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ppa41tmo6q57m8m/oVVWQKrart The WWW papers are marked with 'www....', the SDM papers are unmarked. There is one supplementary file for a SDM paper (it is not necessary for you to read the supplementary file completely unless you feel it is necessary). Please choose at least 2 papers each (one of you can select 3 as well, if you are interested), and mark them on this doodle link by *tonight 11pm*: http://doodle.com/ymv2insim7m8bx9m For each paper assigned to you, you can mail me back (A) a summary of the paper (B) 3 strengths and (C) 3 weaknesses of the paper by *Nov. 9 midnight*. Make sure there are no spelling mistakes, your review makes sense and it should be of reasonable length (i.e. not too short). Finally, as these are under submission, treat the papers as 'confidential'. cheers, - Aditya

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Meeting notes (Oct 18th, 2013)
by yaozhang 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Hi everyone, Today Shashi presented two papers: 1. "The Role of Information Diffusion in the Evolution of Social Networks": this paper talks about how information diffusion affects the creation of new links in social networks. 2. "Linking Named Entities in Tweets with Knowledge Base via User Interest Modeling": this paper talks about how to link the entities in tweets with knowledge base (e.g.: Wikipedia). Note that the next meet date is Oct 31st Thursday. Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Advice for Graduate School
by B. Aditya Prakash 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

Hi everyone, A great page for advice on how to navigate graduate school: http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/studentadvice/ <http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/%7Ebrian/studentadvice/> Especially read how to manage your time, and about reading technical papers. cheers, - Aditya

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Tomorrow, Oct 16th @ 1pm
by yaozhang 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Hi guys, Don't forget that we will have the regular meeting tomorrow 1pm at 3160a Torg. (conference room). Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Thursday, Oct 17th @ 1pm
by yaozhang 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Hi guys, Just kind reminder that we will have the regular meeting this Thursday 1pm at 3160a Torg. (conference room). Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Meeting notes (Oct 4th, 2013)
by yaozhang 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Hi guys, Yesterday Liangzhe presented three papers: 1. "One Theme in All Views: Modeling Consensus Topics in Multiple Contexts" kdd2013. this paper talked about the collaboration of different types of contexts. 2. "Towards Understanding Global Spread of Disease from Everyday Interpersonal Interactions" IJCAI 2013. This paper talked about predict the trend of flu using twitter data from airports. 3. "Predicting Disease Transmission from Geo-Tagged Micro-Blog Data" AAAI2012. This paper talked about predicting if and when an individual will fall ill with high precision and good recall on the basis of his social ties and co-locations with other people, as revealed by their Twitter posts. They used twitter social interaction data from NYC. Btw the next meet date is Oct 17 Thursday. Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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Thursday, Oct 3rd @ 1pm
by yaozhang 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Hi guys, Don't forget that we will have the regular meeting tomorrow 1pm at 3160a Torg. (conference room). Regards, Yao * Interested in giving a talk at the DM-Meeting? Send an email to yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu with a short description of the talk.

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