Clio Andris

Associate Professor, School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech

Spatial Social Network (SSN) Analysis: Social Networks in Geographic Space

July 8, 2020 - 12:00 PM EDT

Talk Abstract:

Social networks have a geographic component--whether the network represents individuals in a local neighborhood association or virtual gamers across the world. Modeling a social network in geographic space allows for the study of new principles about how spatial situation affects power, formation and communities in networks. This talk will introduce a few case studies that examine spatial social network (SSN) dynamics within a geographic information systems (GIS) environment using GIS operations, geovisualization and spatial analysis methods. The results show how geographical features likely enable or preclude ties.

Speaker Bio:

Clio Andris is an associate professor in the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She directs the Friendly Cities Lab and conducts research on mathematical models of social networks, social flows, and interpersonal relationships, applied to issues of urban planning, visualization, transportation, and geography.

Her lab is a member of the Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization (CSPAV) and the Information Visualization Lab. She received a PhD from MIT in 2011 in Urban Information Systems, where she was an NDSEG fellow and member of the Senseable City Lab. She held postdoctoral positions at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology and at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to Georgia Tech, she was a faculty member in the Department of Geography at Penn State, and her lab was an affiliate of the GeoVISTA Center. She won an NSF CAREER award in 2021.