Thursday, June 21, 2007

Presentation Information

Communities and Technologies 2007 is rapidly approaching, and we're excited by the level of interest shown in our workshop and the impressive lineup of panelists who have agreed to speak. We hope you will all get a chance to engage these panelists in conversation, and to share your own experience and expertise in this rapidly expanding area of research.

In order to get things going in each portion of the workshop, panelists will be asked to give a brief presentation. Here's a general outline of what to expect. A list of panelists, and selected abstracts of the talks, will be posted sometime next week.

Panelists will each give a 10-15 minute presentation which focuses on one or more of the following stages of data processing and analysis:

1. Data collection: scraping and saving raw data from online communities
2. Data management: parsing the data into a format that can be queried effectively
3. Dataset and sample construction: extracting subsets of the data which can be processed by analytical tools
4. Analysis: analyzing the data and producing results

Many of our panelists have chosen to present previously published work, where they focus in more detail on their methodological approaches.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Will the presentations and results from the workshop be posted somewhere? I'm interested in the presentations and discussion, however unfortunately I cannot attend the conference.

Thanks.