Miscellaneous

For the latest updates, follow me on Twitter under the username zlisto.

We have developed a dynamic influence tracking engine for Twitter called Trumor which finds influential users for different topics. Trumor has appeared in the MIT Technology Review: "Tracking Down Twitter's Best Rumor Spreaders" and CBS Smart Planet: "New system predicts most influential people on Twitter".

Here are a few movies I made of growing Twitter retweet networks for different topics. The first is for the death of Steve Jobs, and the second is for #OccupyWallStreet.

Here are some Twitter retweet networks for different topics which I constructed while I was at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Pictures are shown of some of the more important people in the networks.

BET Awards (2010)

Federer (during Wimbeldon 2010)

I defended my thesis on August 12th, 2011. The title was "Information Extraction with Network Centrality: Finding Rumor Sources and Measuring Influence". You can watch some highlights from the defense below.