My work focuses on the use of Big Data techniques (Data Mining, Analysis and Machine Learning) to the understanding and modeling of human behavior. Past projects have included the use of large Twitter datasets to study political discourse and information diffusion online; modeling of online navigation using real world traces and the modeling and prediction of epidemics at the global scale. These projects required heavy use of techniques from data analysis, visualization, machine learning to turn raw data into practical insights on the way in which people behave, communicate and socialize in the real world.Specialities: Data analysis and modeling using Hadoop, Pig, Python, R, Matlab/Octave, C/C++ and Java. Interests: Big data, Visualization, Cloud Computing, Modeling, Computational (Social) Science, Applied PhysicsFor a complete list of publications and an up to date CV, please see http://www.bgoncalves.com
Listed skills include Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Python, Data Mining, and 44 others.