On Tuesday, February 4, Nan Zhang gave a talk on robustness in social media studies at DAISY 2020, a Workshop on Trans-disciplinary Data Science in the University of Florida. The talk discussed the common validity threats to empirical studies that use social media data, and the uniqueness of such threats that set them apart from traditional designed studies. Some of the robustness issues discussed in the talk were also studied in our recent JOM article.

Heng Xu and Nan Zhang also participated in a panel at the workshop, discussing the reproducibility, interpretability, and actionability issues in the broader data-science community.