2011-08-28: KDD 2011 Trip Report

Author: Carlton Northern The SIGKDD 2011 conference took place August 21 - 24 at the Hyatt Manchester in San Diego, CA. Researchers from all over the world interested in knowledge discovery and data mining were in attendance. This conference in particular has a heavy statistical analysis flavor and many presentations were math intensive. I was invited to present my masters project research at the Mining Data Semantics (MDS2011) Workshop of KDD. In this paper, we present an approach to find social media profiles of people from an organization. This is possible due to the links created between members an organization. For instance, co-workers or students will likely friend each other creating hyperlinks between their respective accounts. These links, if public, can be mined and used to disambiguate other profiles that may share the same names as those individuals we are searching for. The following figure shows the amount of profiles found from the ODU Computer Science st