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2021-02-25: Computation + Journalism 2021 Trip Report
One year ago, I was eagerly anticipating a trip to Boston in mid-March to attend the Computation + Journalism (C+J) Symposium 2020 hosted by Northeastern University. Our PhD student Alexander Nwala...
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2021-03-31: Examining the News Media's Treatment of COVID-19 Death Milestones
.tabular { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; } .center { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } A tweet on September 20, 2020 suggested that the news media was normalizing death not treating...
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2021-03-31: NeuroPype Custom Node Tutorial
If you have not already heard of it, NeuroPype is a great tool for developing pipelines to perform sensor data acquisition, processing, analysis, and/or display. Its Pipeline Designer, based on the...
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2021-04-05: Data Visualization Fall 2020 Projects
(Previous semester Information Visualization highlights posts: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring/Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011)Fall 2020 was the second offering of...
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2021-04-13: Trip report: 1st International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge:...
The 1st International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge (Sci-K) was co-located with the 2021 Web Conference. This is a one-day workshop on April 13, 2021. Because of Covid-19, the workshop was held...
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2021-04-24: 2021 WS-DL Research Expo
On April 14, the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group held our 2021 Research Expo. The occasion was that we had two students who needed to give their MS project presentations,...
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2021-05-03: Automated Filtering of Eye Movements Using Dynamic Areas of...
Fig. 1: The Workflow of Object Detection and Segmentation for Dynamic AOI Filtering and Eye Movement Processing.Most of the eye-tracking experiments involve areas of interests (AOIs) for the analysis...
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2021-05-10: Chronicling the life-cycle of top new stories with StoryGraphBot
Fig. 1: Fig. 1 (Click on image to expand): Story Attention Dynamics chart illustrating the life-cycle of two top news stories from May 18, 2018 -- May 19, 2018. Each line (red or blue) represents a top...
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2021-06-04: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA)...
The 13th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA2021) was hosted virtually (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) jointly by the University of Stuttgart, Germany and the Ulm University,...
View Article2021-06-18: Review reviewers: Thoughts Inspired by a Bad Review
I came across this review of one of my papers. My postdoctoral advisor always told us to treat reviews not personally but seriously. I do not want to disclose the venue and I do not know who reviewed...
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2021-06-22: ACM SIGSIM PADS Trip Report
The 2021 ACM SIGSIM Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulations (PADS) was held at Old Dominion UniversityVirginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) on May 31-June 2, 2021, as a virtual...
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2021-06-30: My Journey to ODU WS-DL Group
My name is Kehinde (Kenny) Ajayi. I had my undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. After my bachelors, I developed an interest in the applications of the...
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2021-06-30: Lamia Salsabil (Computer Science PhD Student)
My name is Lamia Salsabil. I am an international student from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I joined the...
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2021-07-14: Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2021 Trip Report
This was our (Travis, Kritika, and Himarsha) first time attending IIPC’s Web Archiving Conference (WAC). Usually this conference is an in-person event (IIPC General Assembly and WAC trip reports: 2011,...
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2021-08-21: IMLS Laura Bush Award -- A Graduate Certificate in Web Archiving
Our certificate and capstone course will be at the intersection of Computer Science, Library and Information Studies, and Cybersecurity. We are happy to have received a 2021 IMLS Laura Bush planning...
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2021-08-29: Six WS-DL Classed Offered for Fall 2021
https://xkcd.com/2502/ Six courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered in Fall 2021. Because of the continuing Covid-19 situation, the classes will be a mixture of...
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2021-08-26: ODU Teacher Professional Development Workshop
img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: 1px solid black; } figure { text-align: center; } article { text-align: justify; } The ODU Teacher Professional Development Workshop was a 3-day program...
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2021-08-31: Robustifying PDF Links - My 2021 Summer Internship at LANL
Amidst the uncertainties of COVID-19, I got the opportunity to work as a Summer Research Intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This was my first internship as a PhD student in the US, and...
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2021-09-01: From Student To Researcher III
After graduating, I officially accepted a position in Los Alamos National Laboratory's Information Sciences Division (CCS-3) working for Diane Oyen. On October 4, 2021, I will no longer be a member of...
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2021-09-11: ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and...
The ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Information (BCB) was held virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from August 1st through August 4th, 2021. There were 301...
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