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May 8, 2010

A new home for Facebook data team publications

Brendan (who will be joining us this summer, natch!) pointed out yesterday that we don’t have a repository for the papers we’ve published here at Facebook. We moved fast. Now you can find them by clicking on the “Papers” tab of the Facebook Data page. Happy reading everyone!

May 7, 2010

Oh god, now there’s another video of me online

Recently I got to participate on a panel / give a talk as a part of the NAE Seattle Grand Challenges Summit. Let me thank Ed Lazowska for putting together such a great panel — Alon Halevy, Larry Smarr and Catharine van Ingen. I think I got a contact high just from being around such [...]

April 28, 2010

Slides from some recent talks

Recently I had the honor of being invited to give a couple of talks in the Boston area. One at NESCAI and one at NESS. I had a great time and the feedback from the audiences was awesome. A shout out to Jeff of search engine cafe is in order. I also want to especially [...]

March 31, 2010

Using jjplot to explore tipping behavior

In this post, I’ll show off some recent changes to jjplot that we think are really cool. To help motivate these changes, I’ll walk through them using the tips dataset included with the reshape package. Improved faceting along multiple dimensions. This shows a scatter plot of how much males and females tip on each day [...]

March 22, 2010

ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks

is the name of the paper I wrote with Lars, Itamar, and Cameron. It will appear at this year’s ICWSM. You may commence bating those breaths.