Ceren Budak

Teaching

I teach two courses at UMSI: SI 608 - Networks and SI 618 - Data Manipulation and Analysis.

SI 608 - Networks

This course covers topics in network analysis, from social networks to applications in information networks such as the internet. We introduce basic concepts in network theory, discuss metric and models, use software analysis tools to experiment with a wide variety of real-world network data, and study applications to areas such as information retrieval.

SI 618 - Data Manipulation and Analysis

This course aims to help students get started with their own data harvesting, processing, aggregation, and analysis. We cover a wide variety of topics such as using APIs to collect data, SQL, Spark through Python. We use R to perform exploratory data analysis. We use DataCamp for lab assignments for this part of the class so that our students can learn R in an interactive way.

Invited Talks

  • Quantifying Pluralism and Solidarity in Social Movements: A Case Study of Gezi Park Uprising in Turkey

    The Center for Middle East Studies Distinguished Lecture Series, University of California Santa Barbara, November 2014

  • Fair and Balanced? Quantifying U.S. News Media Bias through Crowdsourced Content Analysis

    Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, November 2014

  • Quantifying Political Slant and Selection Bias of U.S. News Media

    COSN Committee Members Workshop, Microsoft Research Mountain View, July 2014

  • Understanding and Managing the Diffusion of Information in Online Social Networks

    NEC Japan, March, 2014 Understanding and Managing the Diffusion of Information in Online Social Networks. Kyoto University, March, 2014

  • Big Data in Online Social Networks: User Interaction Analysis to Model User Behavior in Social Networks

    Keynote Speaker, 9th Annual Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, March, 2014

  • The Future of Social Science Research: A Computational Social Science Perspective

    Womensphere 5th Annual Emerging Leaders Global Summit, January, 2014

  • Navigating Through the Vast Space of Online Social Networks Research

    Technicolor Labs, Palo Alto, CA, 2012

  • Use of Online Social Networks in Business: A Case for Viral Marketing and Redefining Influentials

    Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011

  • Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks - Exploring the Vast Problem Space

    Istanbul Sehir University, Istanbul Turkey, 2011

  • Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks - Exploring the Vast Problem Space

    Koc University, Istanbul Turkey, 2011

  • Information Diffusion in Social Networks: Observing and Influencing Societal Interests

    Tutorial presentation with Profs. Divyakant Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi in VLDB (International Conference on Very Large Databases), 2011

  • Information Diffusion in Social Networks: Observing and Affecting What Society Cares About

    Tutorial presented single-handedly in CIKM (Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), 2011

Service

  • Registration chair for COSN (ACM Conference on Online Social Networks) 2015

  • Program Committee Member for:

    • WWW (International Conference on World Wide Web) 2015, 2016
    • ICWSM (International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media) 2015, 2016
    • WebSci (ACM Web Science Conference) 2016
    • AAAI (AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence) 2016
    • HCOMP (Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing) 2015
    • WSDM(InternationalACMConferenceonWebSearchandDataMining)2014, 2015
    • COSN (ACM Conference on Online Social Networks) 2014, 2015
    • ICDM (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) 2014
    • SIGMOD (ACM Special Interest Group On Management of Data Conference) 2013

  • Organizer for MSR NYC Data Science Seminar Series

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  • Instructor for Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School

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