Posts Tagged ‘Stanford ’
This quarter, I’ve been taking two classes: Data Visualization, taught by Jeff Heer (my rotation advisor for this quarter), and Social and Information Network Analysis, taught by Jure Leskovec (my rotation advisor for next quarter). If you’re interested in either of these two topics, follow those links, as an extensive set of course materials (including class projects and suggested readings) have been posted. For a mid-quarter assignment, I worked with Diana MacLean on a project related to visualizing social network patterns. In this project, we chose to examine methods for visualizing cross-posting behaviors of users of MedHelp, an Online Health Community (OHC).
This fall, I’ll find myself back at Stanford for a couple of reasons. The first is my 5-year reunion, which is strange enough. More improbable, however, is the fact that I will be starting on my way towards a PhD in Computer Science. In many ways, the coincidence of these two events makes me appreciate all the things that have happened since graduation that have brought me to where I am today.
