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CEU Department of Network & Data Science
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Interdisciplinary. Analytical. Challenging. • Where #networkscience and #socialdatascience meet.

An international department with students and faculty from all over the world: networkdatascience.ceu.edu

Come join us! Take your career to the next level 🚀
🚨 New paper in EPJ Data Science! 🚨

@elisaomodei.bsky.social, Andrea Lo Sasso & Loredana Bellantuono study how cancer incidence relates to the Sustainable Development Goals using complex networks & ML.

🌱 Beyond health: agriculture, resources & water also matter.

🔗 bit.ly/4hHnwhW
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨

As part of our mini-interview series with DNDS faculty, today we introduce you to @elisaomodei.bsky.social, Associate Professor at @weareceu.bsky.social

#MeetDNDS #WeAreCEU #SocialDataScience #NetworkScience
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📢 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗛-𝗔𝗧 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 & 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁 @ 𝗖𝗘𝗨 – 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!

Explore digital tools & projects in the humanities from CEU and partner institutions across Austria.

📍 CEU Auditorium, Vienna
🔗 Event details & registration: bit.ly/47dSGso

#DigitalHumanities #CEU
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨

As part of our mini-interview series with DNDS faculty, today we introduce you to Balázs Vedres @vedres.bsky.social, Professor at @weareceu.bsky.social.

#MeetDNDS #WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience
October 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨

As part of our mini-interview series with DNDS faculty, today we introduce you to János Kertész, Professor at @weareceu.bsky.social.

#MeetDNDS #WeAreCeu #NetworkScience #DataScience
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🎓 Welcome to our new PhD cohort in Network Science!

(top row, L→R) Nathalia, Miguel @msanchezc.bsky.social, Zhina
(bottom row, L→R) Jiachen, Dima and Laura

Wishing you an inspiring start to your journey—looking forward to all the ideas and discoveries ahead! 💡🌍
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗡𝗗𝗦!

We started the year by doing a mini interview to our faculty members, so you can get to know them too. Today, we introduce you to @markwittek.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at @weareceu.bsky.social

#meetDNDS #weareceu #computationalsocialscience
September 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Are digital traces giving us a biased view of polarization? 🤔

New paper by Yijing Chen, @elisaomodei.bsky.social & co-authors shows that APIs capturing only visible engagement (💬 YouTube comments) may suggest stronger segregation than less visible forms (▶️ views).

🔗 bit.ly/3JAp2Fz
August 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🕊️ How do social ties shape one of the world’s most secretive elections?

New paper by our PhD candidate Leonardo Rizzo et al. reveals hidden influence in the papal conclave through network analysis.

📘 Social Networks
🔗 bit.ly/450YDJn

#NetworkScience
July 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
DNDS at #IC2S2 2025 in Sweden

A strong presence at the top conference in computational social science!

10+ talks and posters by current & former members on networks, behavior, inequality and digital society.

#WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #SeeUatCEU
July 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Proud to share our presence at #StatPhys29!

Prof. @janoskertesz.bsky.social opened the conference as IUPAP Commission Chair
PhD students Helcio Felippe & @jymmt.bsky.social gave oral talks
Visiting Prof. @tiago.skewed.de gave an invited talk

Great to see DNDS at StatPhys!
July 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🎥 Missed Data Stories 11? The recording is now up! Dive into talks on networks, narratives & visualizing data.

▶️ bit.ly/4jBC2XI

#DataStories #DataViz #WeAreCEU
June 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
DNDS at NetSci 2025: 40+ talks, 3 awards, and a strong showing in Maastricht!

🔗 bit.ly/4dR6SKw

#WeAreCEU #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #NetSci2025 #ComplexSystems
June 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🚨 Epidemics don’t hit everyone equally.
🎓 Adriana Manna wins CEU’s Best Dissertation Award for showing how social inequalities shape disease spread.

📖 Read it: bit.ly/4mJi5RD

#CEU #PhD #SocialJustice #Epidemiology
June 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Can we track epidemics at the individual level without invading privacy? New article by @odorg.bsky.social & @martonkarsai.bsky.social finds signs of epidemic awareness behavior in SARS-CoV-2 genetic data.
Read more: go.nature.com/3SRuw05

#GenomicEpidemiology #BehavioralEpidemiology #HumanDynamics
June 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🚀 Data Stories – 11th Edition
Join us TOMORROW, May 20, 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm for a hybrid event featuring keynotes on data visualization and an exciting student poster exhibition!

🎤 Renata Raidou | Tobias Batik | Sandra Schober
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4mkABPQ

#DataStories #DataViz #SeeUatCEU
May 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Is science missing from climate change debates on #Reddit?

In a paper just published in PLOS Climate, @elisaomodei.bsky.social and collaborators from @isi.it find that 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝟰–𝟲.𝟱% 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀.

🔗 Read: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#datascience #ClimateChange
May 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Meet 𝐓𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐤, one of the keynote speakers at to present at #DataStoriesCEU!

He works at the intersection of 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 and 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, focuses in interactive visualizations and developed a shape-shifting haptic device for VR.

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓!

🔗More info: bit.ly/datastories25
May 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
@sndrschbr.bsky.social will also present at #DataStoriesCEU! She writes #data-driven news stories for #ORF because she understands data is a valuable resource in journalism.

Join us on May 20, 2025!

🔗 More details: bit.ly/datastories25

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#datascience #networkscience #datavisualization
May 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
✨ Deadline Extended – Submit by May 7! ✨

We're still accepting poster submissions for Data Stories, CEU's annual celebration of data visualization in research.

If you’re crafting a compelling, data-driven story, there’s still time to share your work!

🔗 networkdatascience.ceu.edu/data-stories
April 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Renata Raidou is one of the experts that will present at #DataStoriesCEU!

She teaches #MedicalVisualization and #VisualAnalytics at @tuwien.at. She's also the Austrian rep in @easac.bsky.social, a scientific advisory to policymakers in the area of AI in Healthcare.

More: bit.ly/datastories25
April 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
📢Join us for a public lecture by @walter4c.bsky.social about the impacts of social media on society.

⛓️‍💥For online attendants, please register here: bit.ly/3FomgkF
March 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Elma Hot Dervic (from @csh.ac.at) presented "Unraveling Cradle-to-Grave Disease Trajectories from Population-Wide Comorbidity Networks" at DNDS.
She explained how co-occurring diagnoses evolve over a patient’s lifetime by studying a dataset from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Health.

#datadriven
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Sandeep Chowdhary on earning his PhD summa cum laude! 🏆 His research explores success in careers & teams across academia, sports, and innovation, contributing to the Science of Science. 👏
#PhDDefense #NetworkScience #ScienceOfScience
February 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🧐Cascading Breakdown?

Check out this new article in @naturecomms.bsky.social by Bonamassa, @janoskertesz.bsky.social, Havlin, & Gross.

👉Cascades are self-reinforcing processes underlying the systemic risk of many complex systems. Understanding the universal...𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: go.nature.com/4b38ks8
February 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM