Speakers at the 4th edition
We are honored to announce our Keynote Speaker, Benjamin Lind, Educational Support Staff at the Anglo-American School of St. Petersburg and Independent Data Scientist.
Benjamin is a former Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sociology, fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, and research associate with the Applied Network Research Laboratory at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics. Though currently focusing on primary and secondary education, Ben continues to stay involved with academia as an author and reviewer for high impact journals. His research emphasizes data analysis and visualization in the areas of social movements and political sociology, social network analysis, quantitative methods, labor organizations, as well as comparative and historical methods. He earned his Masters and PhD from University of California, Irvine. His PhD dissertation analyzed the growth of labor contention in the United States during the late nineteenth century, questioning how some local events escalated into large-scale social upheaval. Ben’s work was awarded the Best Article Award by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association, and has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the International Journal of Emergency Management, the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, and elsewhere.
Benjamin is a former Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sociology, fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, and research associate with the Applied Network Research Laboratory at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics. Though currently focusing on primary and secondary education, Ben continues to stay involved with academia as an author and reviewer for high impact journals. His research emphasizes data analysis and visualization in the areas of social movements and political sociology, social network analysis, quantitative methods, labor organizations, as well as comparative and historical methods. He earned his Masters and PhD from University of California, Irvine. His PhD dissertation analyzed the growth of labor contention in the United States during the late nineteenth century, questioning how some local events escalated into large-scale social upheaval. Ben’s work was awarded the Best Article Award by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association, and has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the International Journal of Emergency Management, the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, and elsewhere.
We are also delighted to announce the speakers at the Budapest Data Visualization Meetup
“Solving Real-World Problems through Data Visualization”
Benjamin Lind – Data Visualization – From Complex Academic Projects to Primary Education
Educational Support Staff at the Anglo-American School of St. Petersburg and Independent Data Scientist
Noemi Alexa – Visualizing Corruption
Assistant Professor at CEU Business School, Board Member of Transparency International
Eszter Somos – Visualizing Travel
Junior Data Scientist at Liligo.com
Part of the winner team of the Magyar Telekom Leading Data Hackathon 2016 in Data Visualization
Mihaly Minko – Visualizing Business Management and Progress
Data Visualization Team Lead at Starschema
Michael Szell – Visualizing Collective Human Behavior
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Network Science, Researcher in residence at moovel Group
Viktor Lagutov – Visualizing Geospatial Data
Assistant Professor at CEU, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Head of Environmental Systems Laboratory
“Solving Real-World Problems through Data Visualization”
Benjamin Lind – Data Visualization – From Complex Academic Projects to Primary Education
Educational Support Staff at the Anglo-American School of St. Petersburg and Independent Data Scientist
Noemi Alexa – Visualizing Corruption
Assistant Professor at CEU Business School, Board Member of Transparency International
Eszter Somos – Visualizing Travel
Junior Data Scientist at Liligo.com
Part of the winner team of the Magyar Telekom Leading Data Hackathon 2016 in Data Visualization
Mihaly Minko – Visualizing Business Management and Progress
Data Visualization Team Lead at Starschema
Michael Szell – Visualizing Collective Human Behavior
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Network Science, Researcher in residence at moovel Group
Viktor Lagutov – Visualizing Geospatial Data
Assistant Professor at CEU, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Head of Environmental Systems Laboratory
Speakers at the 3rd edition
We are honored to announce our Keynote Speaker, Professor Fosca Giannotti, senior researcher at the Information Science and Technology Institute of the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy, where she leads the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory. KDD Lab is a joint research initiative with the University of Pisa, founded in 1995 - one of the earliest European research groups specifically targeted at data mining and knowledge discovery. Professor Giannotti will open the third edition of the exhibition and she will also be in the discussion panel for the following meetup, on Tuesday. She is going to be teaching a short course on data visualization at CEU this year, at the Center for Network Science.
We are also delighted to announce the other two panel members at the Data Stories Meetup:
Dino Pedreschi is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, and a pioneering scientist in mobility data mining, social network mining and privacy-preserving data mining. He co-leads the Pisa KDD Lab with Prof. Giannotti. He is a founder of the Business Informatics MSc program at Univ. Pisa, a course targeted at the education of interdisciplinary data scientists. Professor Pedreschi will also be teaching the short data visualization course at CNS.
Dino Pedreschi is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, and a pioneering scientist in mobility data mining, social network mining and privacy-preserving data mining. He co-leads the Pisa KDD Lab with Prof. Giannotti. He is a founder of the Business Informatics MSc program at Univ. Pisa, a course targeted at the education of interdisciplinary data scientists. Professor Pedreschi will also be teaching the short data visualization course at CNS.
Krisztina Szucs is a Budapest-based data visualizations designer. With a Masters degree in Graphic Design at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Krisztina is a specialist in information architecture, User Interface and User Experience design, and data visualization, working on a wide variety of projects, from politics to health and market research. Krisztina is successfully freelancing in a dynamic, demanding, and growing business environment around data visualization.