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DESCRIPTION:&nbsp\;About the seminar:'When and where will violent conflict 
 break out?' The answer to this question is critically important to people 
 who might fall victim to violence\, to policy makers who are charged with 
 preventing and resolving deadly disputes\, and to academics who strive to 
 understand human behavior. The social science literature on reducing polit
 ical violence mostly concerns answering the question\, 'Which countries ar
 e likely to experience violence?' Recent research has refined geographic p
 redictions to identify local level danger zones. However\, little progress
  has been made toward the temporally fine-grained question\, 'On which spe
 cific data will violence occur in a specific place?'Please join us for a l
 unchtime seminar led by Dr. Sera Linardi on the work she and her colleague
 s hope to lead to breakthroughs in our current limited understanding of lo
 cal level violence\, to better address its effects on intergroup relations
  and potential escalations into national-level problems.Dr. Linardi will b
 e discussing the results of combining violence data from UN peace operatio
 ns' weekly logs with daily antenna transmission data from Orange Telecom\,
  which have shown a pattern of increased call volume\, more within-network
  calls\, and shorter calls in the days preceding violent events.An R libra
 ry\, developed by Dr. Linardi and student researcher Lujing Li\, which use
 s various machine learning techniques for prediction and plotting the outp
 ut on GIS maps\, will also be discussed during this seminar.Lunch will be 
 provided. This event is co-hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's
  Signal Program.&nbsp\;RSVP HERE.About the speaker:&nbsp\;Dr. Linardi is a
 n assistant professor at the Graduate School of Public and International A
 ffairs (GSPIA) at the University of Pittsburgh with a secondary appointmen
 t at the Department of Economics. She received her PhD in Social Science a
 t the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2010. Before Caltech
  she was a computer scientist at Adobe Systems\, working on the PDF file t
 echnology.Her research is motivated by practical problems faced by organiz
 ations delivering human /social services. Her work can be divided into thr
 ee areas: prosocial behavior\, information aggregation\, and the behavior 
 of social service clients.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
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LOCATION:Nye A\, Taubman 520\, Taubman Building\, 79 JFK St\, Cambridge MA 
 02138
SUMMARY:Violence and cell phone communication patterns: Evidence from Côte 
 d’Ivoire
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