Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Fig. 1: News stories for 365 days in 2018. Each dot represents the average degree of the Giant Connected Component (GCC) with the largest average degree across all the 144 story graphs for a given day. The x-axis represents time, the y-axis represent the average degree of the selected GCC. Click to expand image. There was no shortage of big news headlines in 2018. Amidst this abundance, a natural question is what were the top news stories of 2018? There are multiple lists from different news organizations that present candidate top stories in 2018 such as  CNN's most popular stories and videos of 2018 , and  The year in review: Top news stories of 2018 month by month  from CBS. Even though such lists from respectable news organizations pass the "seems right test," they mostly present the top news stories without presenting an explanation for their process. In other words, they often do not state why some story made the list and why another did not make the list. We ...

We had a great #jcdl2018 / #wadl2018 / @jcdl2018 ! Here is the 2018 @WebSciDL reunion photo, but we're getting so large we weren't all there at once! Not pictured: Incoming fac (Fall 2018): @OpenMaze @fanchyna Alum: @johnaberlin See you June 2-6, 2019 @iSchoolUI @JCDLConf pic.twitter.com/GmKpqKg0Zs — Michael L. Nelson (@phonedude_mln) June 7, 2018 Morning commute @ODU @WebSciDL #BombCyclone pic.twitter.com/4VXFDq8xvj — Alexander C. Nwala (@acnwala) January 4, 2018 The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group had a strong year, with the most significant event being our expansion from two professors to four.  Beginning in Fall 2018, we added two new assistant professors: Dr. Sampath Jayarathna ( @OpenMaze ) joined us from the CSDL of Texas A&M and  most recently from California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly Pomona).  Dr. Jian Wu ( @fanchyna ) joined us from the CiteSeerX group at  Penn State University.  ...

Mat Kelly reports on his recent trip to Washington, DC for the CNI Fall 2018 meeting                                                                                                                                                             ...