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Scott A. Golder

Department of Sociology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: sag262@cornell.edu
Twitter: @redlog
Blog: http://scottgolder.wordpress.com

Curriculum vitae (PDF)

Biographical Sketch

Scott A. Golder is a graduate student in Sociology at Cornell University, conducting research that draws from often massive records of internet activity.

Prior to coming to Cornell, Golder was a research scientist in the Social Computing Lab at HP Labs. Before that, He was a graduate student at the MIT Media Laboratory's Sociable Media Group, and an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he studied Linguistics and Computer Science. He has also been a research intern at IBM and Microsoft.

His work has been published in the journal Science as well as top computer science conferences by the ACM and IEEE, and has been featured in media outlets such as MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post and National Public Radio.

Selected Publications

Scott A. Golder and Michael W. Macy. (2011) Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures. Science. 30 Sep 2011. [ main text (pdf) | supplementary materials (pdf) | extras (web) ]

Scott A. Golder and Sarita Yardi. (2010) Structural Predictors of Tie Formation in Twitter: Transitivity and Mutuality. IEEE Social Computing. [ pdf ]

Scott A. Golder, Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo Huberman. (2007) Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging within a Massive Online Network. 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies. [ pdf ]

Scott A. Golder and Bernardo Huberman. (2006) Usage Patterns of Collaborative Tagging Systems. Journal of Information Science. 32(2). [ pdf ]

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Other

NEW!     Social Science with Social Media - This short essay (with Michael Macy) appeared in the ASA's newsletter, Footnotes, in January 2012. We describe how social science can use social media as a source of behavioral data.

timeu.se - What do people do all day? By collecting millions of messages from Twitter, we can explore in great detail exactly how people report spending their time. (a companion to Golder & Macy 2011)

The Dialect Survey - a series of questions to explore words and sounds in the English language. A very early example of collecting social science data on the internet. (2002; in collaboration with Bert Vaux)

Scaling Social Science with Hadoop - a blog post / essay written for Cloudera on computational social science. (2010)

HP CloudPrint - a cloud-based, driverless, virtual printing service for printing from your mobile, which I invented while at HP. Now apparently defunct (I left HP in 2008), it got nice coverage in the New York Times. (2007)

Last updated: 29 September 2011