Benjamin Lind
Title: Data Visualization – From Complex Academic Projects to Primary Education
Bio: Benjamin is a former Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sociology, fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, and research associate with the Applied Network Research Laboratory at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics. Though currently focusing on primary and secondary education, Ben continues to stay involved with academia as an author and reviewer for high impact journals. His research emphasizes data analysis and visualization in the areas of social movements and political sociology, social network analysis, quantitative methods, labor organizations, as well as comparative and historical methods. He earned his Masters and PhD from University of California, Irvine. His PhD dissertation analyzed the growth of labor contention in the United States during the late nineteenth century, questioning how some local events escalated into large-scale social upheaval. Ben’s work was awarded the Best Article Award by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association, and has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the International Journal of Emergency Management, the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, and elsewhere.
Noemi Alexa
Assistant Professor at CEU Business School, Board Member of Transparency International
Title: Visualizing Corruption
Eszter Somos
Junior Data Scientist at Liligo.com. Part of the winner team of the Magyar Telekom Leading Data Hackathon 2016 in Data Visualization.
Title: Visualizing Travel
Mihaly Minko
Data Visualization Team Lead at Starschema
Title: Visualizing Business Management and Progress
Michael Szell
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Network Science, Researcher in residence at moovel Group
Title: Visualizing Collective Human Behavior
Viktor Lagutov
Assistant Professor at CEU, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Head of Environmental Systems Laboratory
Title: Visualizing Geospatial Data
Fosca Giannotti
Bio: Professor Fosca Giannotti is a senior researcher at the Information Science and Technology Institute of the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy, where she leads the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory. KDD Lab is a joint research initiative with the University of Pisa, founded in 1995 - one of the earliest European research groups specifically targeted at data mining and knowledge discovery.
She is going to be teaching a short course on data visualization at CEU this year, at the Center for Network Science.
Dino Pedreschi
Bio: Dino Pedreschi is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, and a pioneering scientist in mobility data mining, social network mining and privacy-preserving data mining. He co-leads the Pisa KDD Lab with Prof. Giannotti. He is a founder of the Business Informatics MSc program at Univ. Pisa, a course targeted at the education of interdisciplinary data scientists.
Professor Pedreschi will also be teaching the short data visualization course at CNS.