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Measuring Personalization in Online Services

January 29, 2018

We are nowadays used to navigating the internet to answer many of our questions and to satisfy our needs, such as booking a hotel or buying a flight ticket. While we absorb information from the web, however, we are also leaving our fingerprints there. “Until 10 years ago, it was taken for granted that everybody saw the same content online,” points out Ancsa Hannak, a research associate at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a Visiting Professor at the Central European University.

“The more the closure, the more open one may become…” – A lecture by Professor David Stark

January 22, 2018
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David Stark, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Center on Organizational Innovation, recently visited CEU accepting the invitation of Balázs Vedres, Director of the Center for Network Science.

Ecological Networks – From Individuals to Ecosystems

January 15, 2018

How may network analysis help to understand what happens in biological and ecological systems? Ferenc Jordán, group leader and scientific adviser at the Danube Research Institute - MTA Center for Ecological Research in Budapest, explained in detail the potentialities of the use of a complex network approach in Biology.

Combined Effect of Content Quality and Social Ties on User Engagement: Research of Aesthetics Empowered by Algorithms

January 9, 2018

Rossano Schifanella, an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Turin, with experience in working in the industry (Yahoo Lab, Nokia Bell Labs) gave a talk about his research on social media data aiming at better understanding online as well as offline social behavior.

The Influence of Core-Periphery Relations on the Process of Canon-Formation

January 3, 2018

How does the network position of artists influence whether they become part of the community that shapes the artistic canon or one of those being tossed to the periphery of the art world?

How do influential actors in the art system shape, reconstruct and establish these relations?

Júlia Perczel, PhD candidate at the Center for Network Science investigates these questions among many others to map the cultural production practices of the art world.