DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar
Date: September, 22, 2020, 14h30m
Speaker: Pedro Ribeiro
Title: “A gentle introduction to the world of network science”
Abstract: We will start by introducing the field of network science as an emerging pivotal interdisciplinary research topic. We will talk about the ubiquity of complex networks and how the huge increase of the available data contributed to the appearance of this field as a separate entity. We will give a brief historical perspective and revise some common terminology, along with the main associated tasks. We will then proceed with an hands-on experience on graph visualization, walking the audience through the steps needed to go from a confusing ‘hairball’ to a more polished and organized graph visual able to convey a message. We will showcase several graph filters, statistics, layouts, ranking and partition mechanisms, while interacting with the data in real time in an exploratory fashion. Finally we will give an overview of some of the work our group has done in this are, focusing on the subgraph patterns and their applicability.
Short Bio: Pedro Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, Computer Science Department and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems. He holds a PhD from the University of Porto in the field of Network Science, with a thesis centered around efficient and scalable detection of network motifs. His main research topics are in the fields of advanced algorithms and data structures, graph mining, network analysis and parallel and distributed computing. He has organized several network science related events, such as the Porto Winter School on Graph Analytics and Applications or the Porto Winter School on Network Science.
ZOOM link :
videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/3372995632