[gov3009-l] Re: Gov 3009 Applied Statistics Workshop (1/26) -- Tracy Ke [Zoom]

Dear Applied Statistics Workshop Community, This is a gentle reminder that our first meeting of the semester will be at *12:10 pm (EST) tomorrow on Zoom <https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97004196610?pwd=eGFydkF5RDRjUlk5RVcyTjV6OStUQT09>*, where Tracy Ke <http://zke.fas.harvard.edu>(Harvard University) presents "Learning Research Areas and Author Research Interests from Bibtex and Citations." *Abstract* Given the scientific publications in a field, we are interested in using bibtex and citation data to estimate (a) the primary research areas in this field, (b) the research interests of individual authors (which may evolve with time), and (c) the citation impacts of different research topics in this field. We answer questions (a)-(b) by studying the co-citation networks of authors. We model them by a dynamic mixed-membership model, where each primary area is a “community”, and the author research interests are described by the time-varying “mixed membership vectors”. We propose a spectral algorithm for estimating these membership vectors. We answer question (c) by joint modeling citations and paper abstracts. We propose the Hofmann-Stigler model, which imposes K “topic vectors” in text abstracts, K “export scores” to model the citation impact of these topics, and a “topic weight vector” for each paper. We propose a spectral algorithm for parameter estimation, which output can be used to rank topics. We implemented our methods in a data set about publications in statistics. It covers over 83K papers in 36 journals in statistics spanning 41 years. We discovered a “Statistics Triangle” that is connected to Bradley Efron’s Statistics Philosophy Triangle (Efron’s triangle is subjective, but our triangle is from data). We also discovered the trend of moving towards the popular sub-area of “High-dimensional Data Analysis” of quite a few high-profile authors. We also found that the research topic “Mathematical Statistics” is ranked 1st in terms of the citation impact. This is joint work with Pengsheng Ji, Jiashun Jin and Wanshan Li. The talk is partially based on the paper “Co-citation and Co-authorship Networks of Statisticians” (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, to appear). *When:* Wednesday, January 26 at 12:10 - 1:30 pm. *Zoom link*: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97004196610?pwd=eGFydkF5RDRjUlk5RVcyTjV6OStUQT09 *Schedule of the workshop*: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stats.workshop-gov3009 Best, Sooahn