Links to :  Contributed Talks ---  Software Demos --- Printable Version of Program

note: slides and papers are all in PDF unless noted otherwise

Day 1, morning: Applications and challenges

Presentations on different application areas: What does the data look like? What approaches are being used, and what challenges does the data pose? These should be high level talks that introduce the field to the unfamiliar, and present the particular challenges faces with regard to using graphs for statistical analysis.  

Day 1, afternoon: Software and Algorithms

Presentations on existing software that can be used for graphs, the strengths and limitations and challenges for the graph drawing comminity which are specific to statistical analysis.  We will have representatives from the graph algorithms community as well as the statistical software community -- how can we bring these two together? 

Graph Software - What tools are in use now? What's good about them, and where do they fall short?

Statistical software for Graphs - where do statisticians interface with the technologies above?

Day 2, morning and early afternoon: Statistical Inference and EDA for Graphs

Discussions of the various types of analysis we are doing with graphs, with specific examples.  This section would give participants an opportunity to give a short talk on their specific research, with the hope that it ties in to previous sections. 

• Exploratory Data Analysis
• Models for Graph Structures
• Static graphs: Extending existing methods to multivariate data on edges, missing data on edges, approximation strategies to scale computation for large graphs.
• Dynamic graphs: Models for graphs that change over time both w.r.t. edge data (may be univariate, multivariate) and nodes.
• Link Analysis for Massive (and usually sparse) Graphs: Identifying communities in large graphs, efficient eigenanalysis for large sparse graphs and implementing them in R.

Day 2, late afternoon: Summing up

One topic for this final session is a conversation between users and software designers: what requests do users have for the software designers, and what questions would the designers like to ask of the prospective users?