Colleen Farrelly
Colleen Farrelly is a principal data scientist whose expertise spans network science, topological data analysis, quantum computing, and natural language processing. She and Dr. Gaba have a first book, The Shape of Data, which covers many network science tools.
Dr. Yae Gaba is a researcher at Quantum Leap Africa whose expertise includes computational geometry, topology, graph learning algorithms.
Dr. Franck Kalala Mutumbo is a researcher at African Institute of Mathematical Sciences and University of Lubumbashi. He is an expert in network science and has trained many African network science researchers. He and Ms. Farrelly have a network science book coming out in 2024.
Sessions
In this talk, we will introduce network science and demonstrate its usefulness in mining different types of data, including social network data, time series data, and spatiotemporal data. Our talk will include practical, hands-on examples of real-world problems we've solved in the developing world with tools from network science--including epidemic forecasting, stock market crash prediction, and food pricing trend analysis across regions. Python code will be available for those who want to run the analysis themselves.