Best papers of the 2013. What is privacy?
I have read around 200 papers this year. A large fraction of them were very technical, some reviews and other very fashionable. But among them, I would like to highlight the ones that for me are the...
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Netmob 2015
I had the pleasure to organize last edition of Netmob at MIT Media Lab (together with Sandy Pentland, Vincent Blondel and Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye). Netmob is the primary conference in the analysis...
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Temporal networks with R and igraph (updated)
A while ago, I wrote a post about how to create animations of temporal networks using R and the amazing package igraph package. The post was written in 2012 and the code does not work with the most...
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Fully nonlinear dynamics of stochastic thin-film dewetting
S. Nesic, R. Cuerno, E. Moro, and L. Kondic Physical Review E 92, 061002(R) [LINK] [PDF] Summary: The spontaneous formation of droplets via dewetting of a thin fluid film from a solid substrate allows...
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2015 year in review
2015 has been an amazing year both on the professional and personal grounds. Here are some of the main things that happened this year: 2015 class of Master in Data Science and Big Data at AFI Escuela I...
View ArticleMore people, more fun: The scaling of events in cities
This is a recent article publish in Medium.com by David Martín-Corral, Manuel Cebrián and myself in which we analyze the super-scaling of touristic attraction (number of events) with population....
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Searching for someone
From the “Small World Experiment” to the “Red Balloon Challenge,” and beyond We live in a small world, right? But the cost and fragility of navigating it could harm any potential strategy to leverage...
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Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity
Yury Kryvasheyeu1, Haohui Chen, Nick Obradovich, Esteban Moro, Pascal Van Hentenryck, James Fowler and Manuel Cebrian, Science Advances 11 Mar 2016: Vol. 2, no. 3, e1500779 [LINK] Summary: Could...
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Network Science for kids!
One of my favorite activities is to teach my field or research network science to high-schoolers. We (together with my colleague Cristina Brändle) have been doing that from our university to the local...
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Temporal patterns behind the strength of persistent ties
Henry Navarro, Giovanna Miritello, Arturo Canales, Esteban Moro ArXiV 1706.06188, 2017 [LINK] Summary: Could social media data aid in disaster response and damage assessment? Countries face both an...
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