Tobias Escher at the OII

Today we had a talk by Jason Stockwood who is Managing Director of Match.com UK which is an online dating site. Jason shared some interesting numbers: 20% leave their service because they found “someone significant”, average time spent is 6 months before dropping out (about 50% of them come back though), the core is 28 [...]

One of the main reasons to go to a conference is obviously that you can meet interesting people there that do research that is quite relevant to yours and of which you haven’t been aware of at all. In Michigan (see previous post) I met Professor Jonathan Zhu from City University of Hong Kong. They [...]

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Doctoral Colloquium of the 3rd Annual e-Social Science conference in Ann Arbour (Michigan). Within the vast array of topics covered in the presentations (as one expression of the diversity of approaches to e-Social Science) I saw some pretty interesting research so here a selection: Anna Barford [...]