KDD 2011 · Published Research

Computational Behavioral Research

Data Mining & Social Network Analysis

Published interdisciplinary research applying data-mining techniques to RFID-derived behavioral data and social organization.

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01 / Research

From observational behavior to computational structure

The research investigated how computational methods could help identify behavioral patterns and social organization in RFID-derived laboratory animal data.

02 / Methods

Data mining applied to behavioral science

Computational approaches

Cluster-oriented pattern discovery
Association-rule mining concepts
Graph/network representation of interactions
RFID-derived behavioral event data

Research contribution

The work connected experimental neuroscience and behavioral observation with methods more commonly associated with knowledge discovery and commercial data mining.

03 / Publication

KDD 2011

From Market Baskets to Mole Rats: Using Data Mining Techniques to Analyze RFID Data Describing Laboratory Animal Behavior.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2011.

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04 / Relevance

Why this belongs in a modern data portfolio

This work predates my recent machine-learning portfolio and demonstrates a longer quantitative thread: instrumented data collection, pattern discovery, network reasoning and interdisciplinary interpretation.