Eytan Adar
I am an Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. I work on temporal-informatics which is the study of the change of information—and our consumption of it—over time. This is primarily at Internet scales and it gives me an excuse to work on lots of different things I like... text and log mining, visualizations, social network analysis, etc.

Before grad school I was a researcher at HP Labs' Information Dynamics Group and at Xerox PARC. (complete CV). I can be reached at eytanadar-at-yahoo-dot-com.

Among other things, I am associated with the MISC and MIDAS groups (HCI and data mining, respectively). With Jaime Teevan, I am also organizing WSDM 2012 which will take place in Seattle.

I'm working with some awesome students including Jessica Hullman, Avishay Livne, and Allie Mazzia.

I have a blog (which I post to pretty infrequently).

Some demos/videos of other recent work for you to try:

» Zoetrope video
» GUESS, the Graph Exploration System (new version of Zoomgraph).
» Other videos on YouTube (click on "watch in high quality" for a better view).
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Recent Publications

» "Benefiting InfoVis with Visual Difficulties"
Jessica Hullman, Eytan Adar, and Priti Shah, InfoVis'11, Providence, RI, Oct 23-28, 2011 (Honorable Mention paper)

» "The Party is Over Here: Structure and Content in the 2010 Election"
Avishay Livne, Matthew P. Simmons, Eytan Adar, Lada A. Adamic, ICWSM'11, Barcelona, Spain, July 17-21, 2011.

» "Memes Online: Extracted, Subtracted, Injected, and Recollected"
Matthew P. Simmons, Lada A. Adamic, Eytan Adar, ICWSM'11, Barcelona, Spain, July 17-21, 2011.

» "The Impact of Social Information on Visual Judgments"
Jessica Hullman, Eytan Adar, and Priti Shah, CHI'11, Vancouver, Canada, May 7-11, 2011.

» "Why I Hate Mechanical Turk Research (and Workshops)"
Eytan Adar, CHI'11 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation, Vancouver, Canada, May 7, 2011.

» "A Tool for Policy Comprehension"
Alessandra Mazzia, Kristen LeFevre, Eytan Adar, CHI'11 Workshop on Networked Privacy, Vancouver, Canada, May 7, 2011.

» "The temporal dimension in end user programming for the Web"
Eytan Adar, Mira Dontcheva, James Fogarty, Daniel S. Weld, Chapter in No Code Required, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010

» "Resonance on the Web: Web Dynamics and Revisitation Patterns"
Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, and Susan Dumais, CHI 2009, Boston, MA, April 4-9, 2009.

» "The Temporal Dimension in End User Web Programming "
Eytan Adar, Mira Dontcheva, James Fogarty, Daniel S. Weld, Workshop on End User Programming for the Web, CHI 2009, Boston, MA, April 4-9,2009

» "Information Arbitrage in Multi-Lingual Wikipedia"
Eytan Adar, Michael Skinner, Dan Weld, WSDM'09, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 9-12, 2009.

» "The Web Changes Everything: Understanding the Dynamics of Web Content"
Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, Jonathan Elsas, WSDM'09, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 9-12, 2009. (Best Student Paper).

» "Zoetrope: Interacting with the Ephemeral Web"
Eytan Adar, Mira Dontcheva, James Fogarty, Daniel S. Weld, UIST'08, Monterey, CA, October 19-22, 2008.

» "Intelligence in Wikipedia"
Daniel S. Weld, Fei Wu, Eytan Adar, Saleema Amershi, James Fogarty, Raphael Hoffmann, Kayur Patel and Michael Skinner, AAAI'08, Chicago, IL, July 13-17, 2008.

» "Large Scale Analysis of Web Revisitation Patterns"
Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, and Susan Dumais, CHI 2008, Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 2008 (Best of CHI).

» "Managing Uncertainty in Social Networks"
Eytan Adar and Christopher Ré, Data Engineering Bulletin, 30(2):23-31, July, 2007.

» "Information Re-Retrieval: Repeat Queries in Yahoo's Logs"
Jaime Teevan, Eytan Adar, Rosie Jones, and Michael Potts, SIGIR'07, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007

» "User 4XXXXX9: Anonymizing Query Logs"
Eytan Adar, Query Logs Workshop, WWW'07, Banff, Canada, May 2007

» "Why We Search: Visualizing and Predicting User Behavior"
Eytan Adar, Daniel Weld, Brian Bershad, and Steven Gribble, WWW'07, Banff, Canada, May 2007

» "SoftGUESS: Visualization and Exploration of Code Clones in Context"
Eytan Adar and Miryung Kim, ICSE 2007 (formal demo), Minneapolis, MN, May 2007.

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Links
» Sara Dubowsky Adar
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