Research ideas

The first research ideas are starting to appear and I haven't even yet talked to the people in the lab. But the presentations yesterday and today were good to show me some indication if what can be done.

Now I'm going home to do a bit more work there.

Talk at CS Department

I just came back from a talk from David Lazer from Harvard. He gave the talk at the CS department here at NEU. The talk was very interesting and was about Computational Social Sciences. It relates to how computer science is helping social sciences people do a better job understanding human behavior. This is done via the concept of networks and the analysis of their characteristics. I spoke to him after the talk and I hope he can help me with some questions I have related to the research we're doing with the Enron email dataset. 

If you'd like to watch his talk, Google video has a copy of (almost) the same talk he gave here. The link is here.

(Sarah he looks a lot like Marcos André!!! lol)

Slow today

It's kind of slow today. I'm leaving to a talk in the CS department.
Maybe after that I'll fell like writing the paper I started. It's due
on the 16th. Currently I'm struggling trying to find the concept of
clans in Networks. I know what is a clique but "clans" I've never
heard of. Do you know? :-)

Brazil

Called my father-in-law and he is felling well. That's good news! Told me he might go home this weekend.

A bit late

My idea to work until 1:30 and then wake up today at 7:30 did not go so well. I got up at 8:30 instead. Then I had my shower and ate my cereal bar. I wanted to get out of the house soon to see if I could find a key ring. Yes, I'm still looking... The local dollar store had none but at least I got a mug to drink coffee at work. I'm kind of giving up on this key ring.

Now I'm again on the T going to work. I still have 35 minutes before I get there.