Avner Kantor
@avnerkantor
PhD student at the Internet Research Lab, University of Haifa | Statistician at Israel Central Bureau of Statistics | Exploring data and its use
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The #IEEEVIS Industry Meetup on “How to make money with visualization” offered valuable insights—mainly that making money from visualization is harder than visualizing it.
I’m happy to participate at #IEEEVIS and meet an incredible community that I truly want to be part of! Great conversations and so much inspiration. My poster explores how generative AI can drive engagement with data visualizations. Here’s me with it 👇
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When we came to see our destroyed labs hit by an Iranian missile, we found that a piano had survived @WeizmannScience
Presented my research on discussion networks in data journalism today at the Israel Statistics and Data Science Association Conference.
Excited to share that my paper "Data, Sense, and Sensibility: How Data Journalism Style Shapes Interactivity" has been accepted to #AoIR2025 in Brazil! #ddj
We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination,@norijacoby,@daltonconley, & Ofer Tchernichovski. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n
Thrilled to present my first PhD article at #HICSS2025 last week! 🌟 I explored how access to data via @UpshotNYT fosters meaningful conversations. It’s the largest study to date on data journalism and its audience. Read more: [scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/cor…] #DataJournalism
We are recruiting two postdocs for an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project in collective behavior. Joint project with @enfascination(@ucdavis), @daltonconley (@Princeton), Ofer Tchernichovski(@CUNY) and @norijacoby (@Cornell). Please forward this thread to relevant people! 1/n
Why do we get certain diseases whereas others do not exist? This new book builds a foundation for systems medicine. Starting from basic laws, it derives why hormone, immune and aging circuits are built the way the are, culminating in a periodic table of diseases.
🎺🎺🎺 Inaugural Meeting on Network Dynamics & Networks of Networks Jan. 29 - Feb. 1, 2024 Jerusalem, Israel Mark your calendars and follow for updates. This will be theee meeting of 2024. kl-marketing.wixsite.com/network-dynami… More info to come soon. But meanwhile check out our website 👆
My research on engagement with visualisation will be presented at the Israeli Visualisation Conference. It will follow @amandacox keynote lecture. isvis.org
Submissions are open for the 2022 Computation+Journalism Conference until May 9th. The conference will be held in person at Columbia this year and online. More info: brown.columbia.edu/cj2022/
1/3 Check out the cover of @nature's current issue: it's devoted to computational social science and our special issue nature.com/nature/volumes…
Our new study is out! @SethCLewis, @journoscholar & I look at where journalists' image of their audience comes from, & how that image is shaped in turn. What affects whether journos see audiences as rational, or like themselves? Free access at this link: tandfonline.com/eprint/GBPMZ5U…
A new journal dedicated to quantitative description focused on digital media topic statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/27/a-n…
How come today Wikipedia is "last best place on the Internet" & Social Media are to blame for polarization, misinformation & hate speech; both designed on same promise? What can we learn from former to fix latter? Comment by Fil Menczer of @OSoMe_IU & I arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13754…
Announcing our latest #SpecialIssue #CallforPapers! This issue, guest edited by @TanjaAita, @eborgesrey, and @ndiakopoulos, calls for research on how #design is shaping #journalism and relationships in the journalistic field. Submit your abstract by 15 Jan!bit.ly/32deLX9
A week ago, Facebook sent me a C&D asking us to take down AdObserver and delete our data. The public has a right to know how political ads are targeted, so we will not be complying with this request. Please consider installing AdObserver.org
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