Presentations

• Calling BS: Data Reasoning in a Digital Age (2019)
  Office of Research and Economic Development and the Wonderlust Lifelong Learning Program - Bozeman, MT
• Data, Mapping, and Open Democracy (2019)
  xTech + Impact 2019 Summit - Bellevue, WA
• Reasoning about data, machines and deep fakes (2019)
  UW Astro Colloquium - Seattle, WA
• The Promises and Pitfalls of Machine Learning (2019)
  UW Business Advisory Council Luncheon - Seattle, WA
• Truth, Trust, And Democracy: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction in the Digital Age (2019)
  League of Women Voters - Bremerton, WA
• Bullshitting: Empirical and Experiential Examinations of a Pervasive Social Behavior (2018)
  Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting - Atlanta, GA
• BUNK: The Information Series (2018)
  Graduate School Public Lecure Series - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation (2018)
  Western Washington University Lecture Series - Poulsbo, WA
• Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation (2018)
  Teaching with the Library: From Data to Knowledge - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation (2018)
  Washington Medical Library Association - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2018)
  Big History Annual Meeting - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2018)
  Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2018)
  University District Rotary Club - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS in the Real World (2018)
  Epistemology for the Real World: Navigating in an Archipelago of Alt-Epistemology and Alt-Truth conference - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS: data reasoning for a digital age (2018)
  Seattle Chamber of Commerce - Seattle, WA
• Calling Bull: Thinking critically about data in the social and natural sciences (2018)
  The Rolf Buchdahl Endowed Symposium on Science, Technology, and Values - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• Calling Bullshit on Fake News (2018)
  Simon Fraser University President's Dream Colloquium - Burnaby, BC, Canada
• Combatting Misinformation in Science (2018)
  American Institute of Physics Annual Assembly - College Park, MD
• Combatting Misinformation with Libraries (2018)
  Association of Librarians of the UW (ALUW) - Seattle, WA
• Data reasoning amidst the data deluge (2018)
  Academic Business Library Directors (ABLD) Annual Meeting - Seattle, WA
• Echo Chambers in Science? (2018)
  Sunbelt Conference - Utrecht, Netherlands
• Echo chambers in science? (2018)
  NIH Bibliometrics and Research Assessment: A Symposium for Librarians and Information Professionals - Bethesda, MD
• Fake News: Why Lies Spread Faster Than the Truth (2018)
  Seattle, WA
• Invited Talk (2018)
  PARiS21 Conference: Truth in Numbers | The role of data in a world of fact, fiction and everything in between - Bern, Switzerland
• Keynote Address (2018)
  Boeing Executive Workshop on Data Science - Seattle, WA
• Making sense of information: Who do we trust? Where do we go from here? (2018)
  UW Faculty Senate - Seattle, WA
• Mapping Misinformation and Science Communication Research (2018)
  Washington DC
• Reigning in Data Science (2018)
  UW Data Science Summit - Seattle, WA
• Sorting Evidence from Bullshit in the Age of Evidence-Based Dentistry (2018)
  UW Dental School Research Day - Seattle, WA
• Spotting statistical traps and trickery (2018)
  PharmaSUG Annual Conference - Seattle, WA
• TBA (2018)
  National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Annual Meeting - Boston, MA
• The pitfalls and promises of big metadata analytics (2018)
  Association for Information Science and Technology Workshop - Vancouver, Canada
• The Reality of Fake News (2018)
  Museum of History and Industry - Seattle, WA
• The Truth in Numbers (2018)
  Future of Facts in a 'Post-Truth' World - he Phillips Collection Museum, Washington, DC
• Think & Drink: The Speed of Deceit – The New Era of Online Lies and Misinformation (2018)
  Humanities Washington - Moment of Truth: Journalism and Democracy in the Age of Misinformation - Seattle, WA
• An information theoretic approach for hierarchically clustering large acyclic graphs (2017)
  American Mathematical Society - Pullman, WA
• Are Trolls Good (At Choosing Valuable Patents)? (2017)
  PAE Reform Symposium, Stanford Law School - Palo Alto, CA
• BS in Science (2017)
  Northwest Science Writers Associations - Seattle, WA
• Calling B.S. in the Age of Data Science Euphoria (2017)
  National Academies of Sciences, Integrating Ethics and Privacy Concerns into Data Science Education - Washington, DC
• Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation (2017)
  Keynote speech to League of Women Voters - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2017)
  MisinfoCon (Mozilla Festival) - London, U.K.
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2017)
  Keynote speech to Washington Library Association Conference - Tacoma, WA
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2017)
  Keynote speech to Washington State Council for the Social Studies Annual Meeting - Edmonds, WA
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2017)
  Keynote speech to AUREO Conference - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2017)
  Clinical Informatics Grand Rounds Meeting - Rochester, MN
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2017)
  Keynote speech to SCIX2017 - Reno, Nevada
• Calling BS in the Age of Big Data (2017)
  National Network of Libraries of Medicine (PNR Rendezvous) - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS on Phrenology 2.0 (2017)
  UW iSchool Research Symposium - Seattle, WA
• Calling BS Workshop (2017)
  Keynote speech to Lakeside High School - Seattle, WA
• Calling Bullshit in a Data-Driven World (2017)
  Keynote speech to UPCEA Conference - Seattle, WA
• Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data (2017)
  Keynote speech to UW Foundation Board - Seattle, WA
• Data Literacy (2017)
  Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University - Phoenix, AZ
• Data Reasoning in a Digital World (2017)
  Creative Mornings - Seattle, WA
• Identifying Fake News (2017)
  Beyond the Bench 24: Uniting for a Better Future - San Diego, CA
• Learning how to become an expert at recognizing BS (2017)
  Keynote speech to TEDxSeattle - Seattle, WA
• Making a case for open research: Implications for reproducibility and transparency (2017)
  ASIS&T - Washington DC
• Measuring patent influence using citation and litigation (2017)
  Keynote speech to NetSci Satellite on Quantifying Success - Indianapolis, IN
• Media Literacy in an Age of Big Data (2017)
  Journalism Interactive - University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• Panel on Misinformation (2017)
  Geekwire Summit - Seattle, WA
• Talking fake news and misinformation (2017)
  UW News - Seattle, WA
• The Information War: Fake News, Privacy and Big Data (2017)
  UW MS Data Science Program - Seattle, WA
• The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship (2017)
  Keynote speech to NSF ADVANCE Conference on Broadening Participation: Intersectionality - Washington, DC
• Viziometrics: building a figure-centric search engine for the scholarly literature (2017)
  Keynote speech to Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications - Toronto, Canada
• Viziometrics: mapping the knowledge literature (2017)
  Keynote speech to Netsci Workshop: Knowledge Networks in Science and Technology - Indianapolis, IN
• When to Call BS on Big Data (2017)
  Keynote speech to National Association for Business Economics (NABE): Economics in the Age of Algorithms, Experiments and A.I. - Seattle, WA
• Why we do what we do (2017)
  Center for Teaching and Learning, Faculty Fellows Program - Seattle, WA
• Assessing the impact of research funding (2016)
  International Conference on Science of Science - Washington, DC
• Babel: Platform for Scholarly Recommendation (2016)
  WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data - Montreal, Canada
• Combining Citation Networks and Interviews to Generate Narrative Visualizations of Scholars' Careers (2016)
  iConference 2016 - Philadelphia, PA
• Data Science Education (2016)
  Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments Annual Summit - New Paltz, NY
• Digital history from the perspective of a data scientist (2016)
  Chemical Heritage Foundation - Philadelphia, PA
• Diversity and Gender in Scholarly Publishing (2016)
  Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio
• Diversity and Gender in Scholarly Publishing (2016)
  Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
• Facilitating discovery with zoomable maps (2016)
  Allen Institute for Article Intelligence - Seattle, WA
• From measuring science to facilitating science (2016)
  Fourth Annual Knowescape Conference - Sofia, Bulgaria
• Gender and self-citation across fields and over time (2016)
  Women in Genome Sciences - Seattle, WA
• Mapping Knowledge Networks (2016)
  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - Boston, MA
• Mapping the AHA Community (2016)
  American Heart Association Research Leaders Academy - San Antonio, TX
• Mapping the Emergence of Scientific Disciplines (2016)
  International Symposium on Advanced Future Studies, Kyoto University - Kyoto, Japan
• Measuring and Messaging Research Outcomes (2016)
  Data Science Conference - National Library, Beijing, China
• Measuring and Messaging Research Outcomes (2016)
  Tsinghua University - Beijing, China
• Measuring and Messaging Research Outcomes (2016)
  Health Research Alliance Annual Meeting - New York City, NY
• Measuring and Messaging Research Outcomes (2016)
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Shanghai, China
• Measuring and Messaging Research Outcomes (2016)
  Wuhan University - Wuhan, China
• NSF NCSES Workshop on Network Indicators (2016)
  NSF NCSES Workshop on Network Indicators - Washington DC
• Ranking and Mapping Science (2016)
  International Conference on Data-driven Discovery: Data Science Meets Information Science - Beijing, China
• Scholarly Recommendation (2016)
  Metaknowledge Network Annual Meeting - Hyde Park, IL
• Science of Science? (2016)
  International Symposium on Science of Science - Washington DC
• Static Ranking of Scholarly Papers using Article-Level Eigenfactor (ALEF). (2016)
  WSDM Cup 2016 - Entity Ranking Challenge WorkshopFeb - San Fransisco, CA
• The Data Gold Rush in Science Education (2016)
  International Symposium on Advanced Future Studies, Kyoto University - Kyoto, Japan
• The Science of Science (2016)
  Fred Hutch Annual Retreat - Seattle, WA
• Visualizing Knowledge Flows (2016)
  NSF Workshop: Can Network Measures Serve as Indicators of Knowledge Creation and Flow? - Washington, DC
• Visualizing Scholarly Influence (2016)
  WWW Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualization - Montreal, Canada
• An experimental platform for testing recommendation types (2015)
  37th European Conference on Information Retrieval - Vienna, Austria
• Career Panel- Career Paths for Information Management Students (2015)
  Information School MSIM program - University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Data Cartography: Managing Knowledge Networks (2015)
  SKKU Library and Information Science Distinguished Lecture Series - Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
• Data Cartography: using maps to navigate knowledge networks (2015)
  Machine Learning Seminar Series, Duke University - Duke University, Durham, NC
• Data Science Education (2015)
  SciFoo, Google - Mountain View, CA
• DataLab at UW iSchool (2015)
  Big Data, Technology Alliance - Seattle, WA
• Finding Cultural Holes: How structure and culture diverge in networks of scholarly communication (2015)
  Santa Fe Institute Colloquium - Santa Fe, NM
• Gender Differences in Scholarly Self Citation (2015)
  Social-Personality Psychology Seminar - Seattle, WA
• Losing sleep in a data-driven dream (2015)
  Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment Summit - Suncadia Resort, Cle Elem, WA
• Mapping Knowledge Networks (2015)
  Cisco Data Science - San Jose, CA
• Mapping patent citation networks (2015)
  LegalTech, ALM Conferences - New York, NY
• Measuring patent value using citation networks (2015)
  The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
• Measuring the Influence of the Pew Biomedical Program (2015)
  Pew Biomedical Scholars Program - Grand Cayman, West Indies
• Measuring the speciation, diversification and extinction of ideas in science (2015)
  Metaknowledge Network - Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, CA
• Scholarly Recommendation (2015)
  Metaknowledge Research Network, University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
• The Academic Advantage: Gender disparities in patenting (2015)
  ATLANTA CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND INNOVATION POLICY - Atlanta, GA
• The Economics and Structure of Scholarly Publishing (2015)
  Group Health Research Seminar - Seattle, WA
• Using Visual Metaphor in Interactive Visualization to Improve Navigation of Complex Data Sets (2015)
  University of Washington Information School Research Fair - Seattle, WA
• Visualizing hierarchical networks (2015)
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Richland, WA
• An Analysis of the Complete United States Patent Citation Network (2014)
  PatCon 4: The Annual Patent Conference - San Diego, CA
• Big Data is not a monolith (2014)
  Big Data is Not a Monolith workshop - Bloomington, IN
• Curation and Policy Issues in Collaborative Research Data Management Communities (2014)
  ASIS&T - Seattle, WA
• Data Cartography: using maps to navigate knowledge networks (2014)
  Leeds School of Business and Analyze Boulder Present: Boulder Analytics Fellows - Boulder, CO
• Data Science (2014)
  ASIS&T - Seattle, WA
• Data Science Education (2014)
  Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments Annual Summit - Monterey, CA
• Data Science Environment (2014)
  Moore/Sloan Data Science Environment Annual Summit - Monterey, CA
• DataLab: developing a student-centered data science lab (2014)
  Microsoft Faculty Summit, iSchools Summit - Redmond, WA
• Detecting Innovation in Patents (2014)
  Gruter Institute For Law & Behavioral Research, Gruter Institute - Squaw Valley, CA
• Evaluating patents from large open data sets (2014)
  United States Patent and Trademark Office - Washington, DC
• Finding Cultural Holes: How Structure and Culture Diverge in Networks of Scholarly Communication (2014)
  The UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seminar Series - Seattle, WA
• Innovation in Science (2014)
  Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research - Squaw Valley, CA
• Mapping Institutional Impact (2014)
  Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy - Waterville Valley, NH
• Mapping Jargon (2014)
  Center for Statistics & Social Sciences Seminar Series - Seattle, WAO
• Mapping Student Trajectories (2014)
  UW Graduate School - Seattle, WA
• Modifying the Eigenfactor Algorithm for improving interpretability (2014)
  ASIS&T SIGMET Workshop - Seattle, WA
• The flow of ideas from the non-patent literature to the patent literature (2014)
  4th Annual TechMining Conference, VP Institute - Leiden, Netherlands
• The Three Patent Cultures: A Comparative Analysis of Utility, Design, and Plant Patent Citation Networks (2014)
  Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley School of Law - Berkeley, CA
• Using maps to navigate large, hierarchical networks (2014)
  Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI) Lecture Series, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
• Article-level navigators (2013)
  Article-level Metrics Workshop, Public Library of Science - San Francisco, CA
• Article-level Navigators (2013)
  Journals and Science: The past, present and future impacts of research journals on science, National Science Communication Institute - Seattle, WA
• Data Cartography (2013)
  Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
• Document discovery (2013)
  UW Aquatic and Fishery Science Seminar - Seattle, WA
• Eigenfactor: Measuring and Mapping Scientific Knowledge (2013)
  Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Quantitative Seminar - Seattle, WA
• Innovation in Science (2013)
  Innovation and Growth: Biological, Economic, Institutional and Technological, Gruter Institute For Law & Behavioral Research - Squaw Valley, CA
• Publishing and Perishing in the Twenty-First Century (2013)
  Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research - Bellevue, WA
• The Eigenfactor Metrics (2013)
  International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) - Washington, DC
• The Eigenfactor Metrics (2013)
  International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) - Washington, DC
• The genesis of scientific disciplines (2013)
  Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference 2013 - Montreal, QC, Canada
• The role of gender in Scholarly Authorship (2013)
  Genome Sciences Seminar, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
• Using maps to navigate knowledge networks (2013)
  National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center - Annapolis, MD
• Can Ignorance Promote Democracy? (2012)
  Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research - Squaw Valley, CA
• Ranking and Mapping (2012)
  Digital Science - London, UK
• The Growth of Growth Economics (2012)
  Workshop on Growth, Gruter Institute For Law and Behavioral Research, Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
• The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship (2012)
  International Conference on Academia and Publishing - Torino, Italy
• Document Discovery: Advancing Research with Large Knowledge Networks (2011)
  Department of Computer Science - University of Colorado, Boulder CO
• Document Discovery: Advancing Research with Large Knowledge Networks (2011)
  Computer Science and Engineering - Seattle, WA
• Eigenfactor (2011)
  Graduate School of Library and Information Science - University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
• Eigenfactor and Microsoft Academic Search (2011)
  Open Repositories - University of Texas, Austin TX
• Eigenfactor: Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge (2011)
  Microsoft Faculty Summit 2011 - Redmond, WA
• Future of Scholarly Communication (2011)
  Harvard eScience Workshop - Harvard University, Boston MA
• Mapping the network ecology of science at the article level (2011)
  Center for Models of Life - Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Mapping the network ecology of science at the article level (2011)
  Applications of Network Theory - The Conference - NORDITA, Stockholm Sweden
• Measuring Interdisciplinarity in Science (2011)
  Law and Human Behavior - Innovation and Economic Growth - Squaw Valley, CA
• The Eigenfactor Metrics: a network approach to assessing scholarly journals (2011)
  Society for Scholarly Publishing - Boston, MA
• The Eigenfactor Metrics: a network approach to assessing scholarly journals (2011)
  Mapping and Measuring Scientific Output - Santa Fe, NM
• Traversing Fitness Landscapes by Changing Environments (2011)
  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - University of Colorado, Boulder CO
• Eigenfactor and the Future of Scholarly Communication (2010)
  American Chemistry Society National Meeting - San Fransisco, CA
• Eigenfactor: harnessing the power of networks to better navigate the scholarly... (2010)
  Impact and Productivity Measurements in a Changing Research Environment - Washington DC
• Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping scientific knowledge (2010)
  The Changing Face of Scientific Research - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping scientific knowledge (2010)
  Assessing the Usage and Value of Scholarly and Scientific Output - Philadelphia, PA
• Impact and Productivity Measurements in a Changing Research Environment (2010)
  ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship 2010: Discovering Scholarly Content - New York, NY
• New Developments in Defining Impact (2010)
  Society for Scholarly Publishing 32nd Annual Meeting - San Francisco, CA
• Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping the scholarly literature (2009)
  Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference - University of California, Los Angeles CA
• Portland State University, Portland, OR (2009)
  BioOne Publishers and Partners Meeting - Washington DC
• The Economics and Structure of Scholarly Publishing (2009)
  PSU Digital Research Symposium - Portland State University, Portland, OR
• The Eigenfactor 'Ac-count' of Scholarly Evaluation (2009)
  2009 Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting - Pittsburgh, PA
• The Eigenfactor Metrics (2009)
  NSF Workshop on "Scholarly Evaluation Metrics: Opportunities and Challenges" - Washington DC
• The Eigenfactor Metrics: tools for navigating the scholarly literature (2009)
  2009 ALPSP International Conference - Oxford, UK
• The networks of bibliometrics (2009)
  Complex Networks - Department of Theoretical Physics, Umea University, Sweden
• Traversing Fitness Landscapes by Changing Environments (2009)
  International Workshop on "What is Evolution?" - Kyoto University, Japan
• Alternatives to Impact Factor in Evaluating Scholarly Literature (2008)
  Center for Digital Research and Scholarship - Columbia University, New York, NY
• An Introduction to Eigenfactor (2008)
  Library Assessment Conference - University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Applying Eigenfactor Metrics to JSTOR Data (2008)
  American Library Association Annual Conference JSTOR Participants Meeting - Anaheim, CA
• Eigenfactor - The Google Approach to Bibliometrics (2008)
  Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing - National Press Club, Washington DC
• Eigenfactor and Materials Science Journals (2008)
  National Institute for Materials Science - Tsukuba, Japan
• Eigenfactor as a tool for journal editors (2008)
  Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (Annual Editors Meeting) - Seattle, WA
• Eigenfactor, a new approach to assessing journal quality (2008)
  National Academy of Sciences E-Journal Summit - Washington DC
• Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping scientific knowledge (2008)
  Yale Library and Faculty - Yale University, New Haven CT
• Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping the scholarly literature (2008)
  National Institute of Informatics (SPARC) - Tokyo, Japan
• Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping the scientific knowledge (2008)
  Annual Meeting of the Council of Science Editors - Vancouver, BC
• Journal-Quality Metrics, the Eigenfactor (2008)
  HighWire Press Publishers Meeting - Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
• Measuring Interdisciplinarity: A Flow Cite-ometry Approach (2008)
  What is Creativity? Emergent Phenomena in Complex Adaptive Systems - Kyoto University, Japan
• The Academic Perspective on Research Evaluation (2008)
  Assessing Research Performance and Value - University of California, Los Angeles CA
• Using bibliometrics to making purchasing decisions (2008)
  Special Libraries Association Annual International Conference - Seattle, WA
• From antibiotic resistance to the bird flu (2007)
  ARCS Auction Dinner - Seattle, WA
• Metrics for the Humanities (2007)
  European Science Foundation ERIH Stakeholder Meeting - University of Grenada, Spain
• Networks, Disease and Maps (2007)
  29th Annual ARCS Luncheon - Seattle, WA
• Academic Reputation: Democracy vs Meriotocracy (2006)
  Building Economic & Civic Institutions in Digital Environments - Cambridge, MA