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{{Complex Systems Summer School 2013}} Manish Nag got his Bachelor's in Computer Science from Brown in 1997. After 11 years of working on his own Internet startup, and at ad agencies and IT consulting companies in Boston, he became fascinated with organizations and the rational myths of business life. He started a PhD program in Sociology at Princeton in 2008, where he has worked on visualizations and network analyses of [http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/issues/2010jossviz/8_Nag.htm international trade flows]. Manish has developed the software package [http://www.princeton.edu/~mnag/sonoma/ Sonoma] for visualizing network datasets in geographic space, and is working on a book project entitled <i>The Atlas of Globalization</i> with Miguel Centeno. Example maps: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/tzgw87c396m2qn8/Map_Oil_Consumption.pdf Oil Consumption]; [https://www.dropbox.com/s/p7d9u9aiwyxvv9e/2009_Poultry_Directed.png Flows of Poultry]; [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ge11nbzw068fpny/Map_Kfc.pdf Global distribution of KFC restaurants] | {{Complex Systems Summer School 2013}} | ||
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Manish Nag got his Bachelor's in Computer Science from Brown in 1997. After 11 years of working on his own Internet startup, and at ad agencies and IT consulting companies in Boston, he became fascinated with organizations and the rational myths of business life. He started a PhD program in Sociology at Princeton in 2008, where he has worked on visualizations and network analyses of [http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/issues/2010jossviz/8_Nag.htm international trade flows]. Manish has developed the software package [http://www.princeton.edu/~mnag/sonoma/ Sonoma] for visualizing network datasets in geographic space, and is working on a book project entitled <i>The Atlas of Globalization</i> with Miguel Centeno. Example maps: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/tzgw87c396m2qn8/Map_Oil_Consumption.pdf Oil Consumption]; [https://www.dropbox.com/s/p7d9u9aiwyxvv9e/2009_Poultry_Directed.png Flows of Poultry]; [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ge11nbzw068fpny/Map_Kfc.pdf Global distribution of KFC restaurants] | |||
For his dissertation, Manish is interested in the quantitative analysis of qualitative data, with an eye towards mapping the dynamics of cultural change. He is using topic modeling to extract meaning from large text databases like the full run of the New York Times for the past 30 years, the JSTOR dataset, Google Books, and US Congressional Records. His dissertation asks how the meaning of the word "liberalism" has changed in the 20th century. | For his dissertation, Manish is interested in the quantitative analysis of qualitative data, with an eye towards mapping the dynamics of cultural change. He is using topic modeling to extract meaning from large text databases like the full run of the New York Times for the past 30 years, the JSTOR dataset, Google Books, and US Congressional Records. His dissertation asks how the meaning of the word "liberalism" has changed in the 20th century. | ||
Manish is the father of four year old twins named Asha and Julian. When time permits, he is also a musician whose most recent projects include playing bass and singing in a rock band that covered the Ramones and Taylor Swift for a departmental holiday party, and also working on note-for-note reproductions of 80's synth pop with his band [ | Manish is the father of four year old twins named Asha and Julian. When time permits, he is also a musician whose most recent projects include playing bass and singing in a rock band that covered the Ramones and Taylor Swift for a departmental holiday party, and also working on note-for-note reproductions of 80's synth pop with his band [https://soundcloud.com/staticontheradio/west-end-girls Static on the Radio]. He also made a Bollywood remix tape 15 years ago under the moniker of [https://soundcloud.com/tajandstory DJ Taj and Story] | ||
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Manish Nag got his Bachelor's in Computer Science from Brown in 1997. After 11 years of working on his own Internet startup, and at ad agencies and IT consulting companies in Boston, he became fascinated with organizations and the rational myths of business life. He started a PhD program in Sociology at Princeton in 2008, where he has worked on visualizations and network analyses of international trade flows. Manish has developed the software package Sonoma for visualizing network datasets in geographic space, and is working on a book project entitled The Atlas of Globalization with Miguel Centeno. Example maps: Oil Consumption; Flows of Poultry; Global distribution of KFC restaurants
For his dissertation, Manish is interested in the quantitative analysis of qualitative data, with an eye towards mapping the dynamics of cultural change. He is using topic modeling to extract meaning from large text databases like the full run of the New York Times for the past 30 years, the JSTOR dataset, Google Books, and US Congressional Records. His dissertation asks how the meaning of the word "liberalism" has changed in the 20th century.
Manish is the father of four year old twins named Asha and Julian. When time permits, he is also a musician whose most recent projects include playing bass and singing in a rock band that covered the Ramones and Taylor Swift for a departmental holiday party, and also working on note-for-note reproductions of 80's synth pop with his band Static on the Radio. He also made a Bollywood remix tape 15 years ago under the moniker of DJ Taj and Story