From Social Networking to Social Petworking with Jen Golbeck

<p>Today we talk with Jen Golbeck, who is known for her work in computational social network analysis.&nbsp;Her models for computing trust between people in social networks were amongst the first in the field. Now, she’s a professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park.</p> <p>In this episode, she discusses her path to web science, her work in trust-based recommender systems, and how we can use web data to understand people's behaviors. But Jen isn't just interested in people&nbsp;— she's also become somewhat of an expert on dogs on the internet. Or more accurately, social media networks centered around pets.</p> <p>Click here for this episode's <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JEPqEJTWy5chfLNEcW-DMXMHg2-5VuJQsH9IMwDwK84/edit?usp=sharing">transcript</a>, and click here for <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18xuI5pLMrr2q26PuFQyZDqqjvIBdCRUN5nhvYUX1JDU/edit?usp=sharing">show notes</a>.</p>