Understanding a global network: research at Facebook

A rare opportunity co-hosted by Cornell's Survey Research Institute's (SRI), Information Sciences, and Statistical Sciences.
Thomas Lento
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Understanding a global network: research at Facebook

With over 800 million users connected by more than 100 billion edges, Facebook represents one of the largest social network data sets in the world. This talk uses research published by the Facebook Data Team to highlight some of the opportunities and challenges of using such large scale data, including technical challenges and problems with contextualizing aggregated results. The talk will focus on how such behavioral analysis both complements and compares with survey-based approaches, and concludes with a case study of published research that combines the two methods.

His talk is scheduled for Friday April 6, 2012 from 1:30-3:00 pm on the Cornell Ithaca campus. More information will be forthcoming. Please share this notice with your colleagues and students.

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