Sharing widely the slides of our #KDD2020 "Tutorial on Online User Engagement: Metrics and Optimization", which Liangjie Hong and I gave on Sunday. Thank you for attending, your questions and feedbacks 🙏 docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Last year at #SDSC19, before the #COVID19 pandemic, watch Mengdie Zhuang UCL CASA @UCL present on @isenseIRC, a project funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK Research and Innovation that uses web data & mobile phone tests to protect patients & populations from infectious diseases. hubs.ly/H0vh3Qb0

Something for all you COVID data viz tweeps out there - covid.i-sense.org.uk/superset/dashb… - built by UCL CASA's Mengdie Zhuang with -

Delighted that our UCL @isenseIRC interactive COVID-19 dashboard is out: covid.i-sense.org.uk Read more about it here: theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…

New Blog: Analysing patterns of Christmas mobility 1⃣ How mobile was the UK population over #Christmas? 2⃣ Were mobility patterns aligned with the revised Christmas policy? 3⃣ Did #mobilitypatterns have a detectable effect on #COVID19 growth rates? 👉 bit.ly/3oleJVq

Today I am starting a SUPER cool post as Lecturer in Data Science at @InfoSchoolSheff 😃 Excited to work with amazing colleagues and students! /hiking shoes ready too 🥾

Please help spread the word. We are hiring: Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Data Science jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynp…

Very pleased to see the work with amazing team Stuart Ross @GeoBreckenridge - being published! Hope to see similar privacy preserving analyses being used to guide policy making and increase knowledge of human behaviour in these challenging times. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Household mixing significantly decreased in the first COVID-19 lockdown in England and remained relatively low in the second lockdown, but increased during the third lockdown, reports a study published in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/3nPvg6T

As the prospect of #Lockdown looms again in the UK and Europe, new research provides fascinating insight into the changing adherence during, and between, each of our previous lockdowns 👇 - @GeoBreckenridge Mengdie Zhuang #COVID19 theconversation.com/household-mixi…

🚨Job Klaxon!!🚨 - Lecturer in City Modelling post at UCL CASA. This post will be associated with a new joint endeavour with Arup - the CASA / Arup City Modelling Lab. Details here: atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/…

So many dashboards have popped up over the COVID pandemic, but how do we know if they add any public health value? Like many digital health interventions, dashboards lack an evaluation framework. Here's interesting work from Mengdie Zhuang Davie Shoebox - proposing one!

I'm so happy to announce our paper out in @nature today! We show that people who grew up in rural areas have better spatial navigation skills than those raised in cities, particularly for cities with grid-pattern streets. 1/12

We have a fully-funded PhD studentship available for a Sep 2022 entry at UCL CASA Further information can be found at atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/… This studentship is open to UK and International students. The deadline is 29 Jul 2022. The interview will be in August.

"not only within session evaluation!" -- I will talk about our IEEE TVCG paper (with Davie Shoebox -) on evaluating data dashboard in healthcare in the 'health data' session IEEE VIS #vis22 (Oklahoma Station 5) today! 😃

We are expanding our NLP capabilities at Spotify, and I am looking for a director of research in large language models to join us Spotify Research. Come and work with us. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/director-…

Hiring 🤩 12 mths #postdoc in HCI or Visualization Research in the evaluation of data visualization and UI through e.g. user engagement theory, knowledge discovery, model interpretability etc. (your choice!) Get in touch if you are interested! Apply: jobs.ac.uk/job/DIC586/res…