Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The Computer Science Graduate Society (CSGS) of the Old Dominion University organized a Hackathon from October 24 to November 1, 2024. The competition featured three teams from the master's category and three from the PhD category, each presenting innovative projects. Participants chose from five research topics provided by the organizing committee. Two teams from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WSDL) research group participated in the hackathon: Binary Bandits ( David Calano and Dominik Soos ) and our team, Titans ( Himarsha Jayanetti , Kritika Garg , and Kumushini Thennakoon ).  We won the PhD category with our project, "Tracking Political Trends Around the US Presidential Election.” This was a mini project completed within a limited time frame, making it a fast-paced challenge. Despite the constraints, our team tackled various obstacles in collecting and analyzing data. In this blog post, we provide an overview of our project and highlight its key contribution...

Streaming-hub [ Link ] In my  previous post , I elaborated on how dataset metadata could be standardized in a manner that enables researchers to efficiently discover and reuse data already collected for past studies. Adopting such a standard brings a host of benefits to research communities – such as simplified data sharing, massively collaborative research, and automated data pre-processing. However, formulating and adapting such a standard would take years, if not decades, unless 1) the public realizes its practical benefits over the initial hassle of transition, and 2) tools and libraries are built that would ease workflows after transition. My previous post tries to addresses the first concern by introducing DFS and DDU. In this post, I describe our work towards addressing the second concern.

This year I was really lucky to get my abstract and poster accepted for useR! 2018 conference . The UseR! conference is an annual worldwide conference for international R users and developer community. The fourteenth annual conference was held in the Southern hemisphere in Brisbane, Australia from July 10-13, 2018. This four-day conference consists of nineteen 3-hour tutorials, seven keynote speeches, and more than 200 contributed talks, lightning talks and posters on using, extending, and deploying R. This year, the program successfully gathered almost 600 users of the data analysis language R , from all corners of the world from various expertise levels of R . Distribution map of useR! 2018 participants across the globe Fortunately, I was also granted a travel scholarship from the useR! 2018 and could attend the conference including the tutorial sessions for free (thanks useR! 2018 ). 16 travel scholarships have been awarded, with 9 domestic and 7 internationa...