Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

September 24th marked the beginning of iPRES 2018 located in Boston, MA, for which both Shawn Jones and I traveled from New Mexico to present our accepted papers: Measuring News Similarity Across Ten U.S. News Sites ,  The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit , and  The Many Shapes of Archive-It . iPRES ran paper and workshop sessions in parallel, therefore I will focus on the sessions I was able to attend. However, this year organizers created and shared  collaborative notes  with all attendees for all sessions to help others who couldn't attend many individual sessions. All the presentation materials and associated papers were also made available via google drive . Day 1 (September 24, 2018): Workshops & Tutorials The first day of iPRES attendees gathered at the  Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School  to get their registration lanyards and iPRES swag. Registration desk for #ipres2018 is almost open! We’ll have a total of almost 400 participants! pic

Mat Kelly reviews "A Personal Privacy Preserving Framework..." by Song et al. at SIGIR 2018.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ⓖⓞⓖⓐⓣⓞⓡⓢ Americans are more open to share personal aspects on the Web than Asians. — Song et al. 2018 I recently read a paper published at SIGIR 2018 by Song et al. titled "A Personal Privacy Preserving Framework: I Let You Know Who Can See What" ( PDF ). The title alone captivated my interest with the above claim deep within the text. The authors' goal of the work was to reduce users' privacy risks on social networks by determining who could see what sort of information they posted. They did so by es

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