Events

Farshad Kooti presents "Friendship Paradox Redux: Your Friends Are More Interesting Than You"

We will show that the friendship paradox exists on Twitter and applies to other user attributes. The paradox also introduces information overload.

Muhammad Anis Uddin Nasir presents "Load Balancing in Stream Processing Systems"

The talk focuses on the load balancing problem in stream processing engines that exists due to the the presence of data skewness.

Pranay Anchuri presents "Algorithms for Mining Approximate Graph Patterns"

We discuss efficient algorithms for finding approximate frequent subgraph patterns from large graphs.

Bud Mishra presents "On Type-Level Probabilistic Causality"

We describe the Causality research at Courant, NYU, its historical roots in logic and probability, and applications to biology and social sciences.

Mike Thelwall presents "Fast Sentiment Strength Detection for the Social Web"

The talk will describe SentiStrength for fast unsupervised sentiment strength detection in short informal text with human-level accuracy in many cases.

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