Professional curious person. Tweets about computational social science, data visualization, network science, science of science, musicology.
Joined August 2011
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Sam Way retweeted
1 Aug 2024
Are you an academic interested in working with Reddit data for your research?
I'm excited to announce that we've just opened up applications to participate in a Beta program for Reddit's new Reddit for Researchers data offering!
To learn more: reddit.com/r/reddit4research…
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Sam Way retweeted
7 Jun 2024
Happy to share our latest blog post on our paper "Socially-Motivated Music Recommendation" presented at #ICWSM2024 this week. This work explores an alternative music recommendation task and its relation to cultural differences in music listening.
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Sam Way retweeted
20 May 2024
Hot off the press 🔥. Check out @SpotifyResearch blog post on our @WebSciConf paper "A Genre-Based Analysis of New Music Streaming at Scale." @samfway will present this work on Thu, May 23. Link: research.atspotify.com/2024/… #recsys #music #popculture #Algorithms #spotify #newmusic
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Sam Way retweeted
2 May 2024
How do people stream newly released music?🎵 What does genre preference have to do with it all? Check out this blog post about our latest WebSci publication at @SpotifyResearch with @AdityaPonnada, Ang Li, Ben Lacker, and @samfway research.atspotify.com/2024/…
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Sam Way retweeted
13 Feb 2024
Very proud of this paper. Also noting that @homahmrd, @Amir_Ghasemian, and @manoelribeiro are all on the job market! All three are outstanding so please reach out if interested.
13 Feb 2024
Excited to share our new paper, "Causally estimating the effect of YouTube's recommender system using counterfactual bots," with @homahmrd & Miguel Rivera-Lanas & @manoelribeiro & @cervisiarius & @duncanjwatts: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313377…
Here’s a summary 📝
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Sam Way retweeted
22 Jan 2024
Friends don't let friends make bad charts!
Chenxin Li, pulled together a lot of great advice for data visualization, with clear "do this, not that" examples for each item.
Here are a few of my favorites, see the link below for more.
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Sam Way retweeted
🚨📢 Super exciting news!!!! 🎉🎊 I am hiring applied scientists to join my team in bridging responsible AI research and practice! For more info or to apply, see:
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Sam Way retweeted
12 May 2023
We are looking for a research scientist with a background in both economics and machine learning. Our research lab focuses on developing ML technologies that power intelligent user experiences for long-term satisfaction. Come and join us! lifeatspotify.com/jobs/resea…
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Sam Way retweeted
3 May 2023
For those who couldn't attend, our #WWW2023 tutorial "Practical Bandits: An Industry Perspective" is now available online.
Really enjoyed this collaboration, hope it can be of use!
@sharechatapp @bookingcom
@AmazonScience @SpotifyResearch @NetflixResearch youtu.be/NkVWwZKdMac
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Sam Way retweeted
24 Mar 2023
Happy to share the collaborating work that was done during my last year's internship at @SpotifyResearch with great former colleagues! The work will be presented at next week's @ACMIUI conference.
23 Mar 2023
@SpotifyResearch blogpost on our recent research on goal-focused exploration of podcast recommendations, in collaboration with @ylyuliang , @nediyana , and @plamere : research.atspotify.com/2023/…
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Sam Way retweeted
22 Feb 2023
Pretty proud of the @Spotify team for this one – a generative, expressive and realistic AI DJ that delivers a personalized lineup of music and commentary to each user, for all those times you don’t know exactly what you want to hear. Hope you like it! 🎧 newsroom.spotify.com/2023-02…
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Sam Way retweeted
1 Feb 2023
🚨 Internship alert 🚨
The causal inference lab @SpotifyResearch is hiring research scientist interns! Come help us push the state-of-the-art in causal inference and craft tools to help creators and Spotify teams make more actionable decisions. Apply at: lifeatspotify.com/jobs/summe…
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Sam Way retweeted
18 Jan 2023
📢 My lab at @SpotifyResearch is looking for research interns. If you work on ML, Data, Networks, Audio and want to rock out with us this summer apply here (EMEA region) lifeatspotify.com/jobs/summe…
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Last call! Applications to spend the summer at @SpotifyResearch are due this week. It's a fun gig 🎸
10 Jan 2023
Our @SpotifyResearch Summer 2023 internship applications close Friday, January 13th. If that's an unlucky day for you, apply today! 😀
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Postdoc with the incredible Minsu Park (@likeateenspirit)! This sounds like an amazing opportunity. Apply by January 30th
18 Nov 2022
Come work with me at @NYUAD_SocialSci (& collaborators @CompAudition at MPI) as a 3-year Postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/117872 Plan to focus on global cultural diffusion using large-scale music/video consumption data but open to your ideas. Superb research support and compensation! :D
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✨ Diwali is celebrated by more than 1 billion people around the world. This year, we’re adding a dash of sparkle to @Spotify's Diwali celebrations and going beyond the playlists to help you connect with your favorite artists and music more deeply. newsroom.spotify.com/2022-10…
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Sam Way retweeted
2 Aug 2022
Are we as open to discovering new music as we grow older?
Very interesting (and fun) findings published by our research team at Spotify:
“How we look for new music changes as we age” | Popular Science popsci.com/technology/spotif…
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Sam Way retweeted
26 Jul 2022
Our last blog post on a recently presented #ICWSM2022 paper "The Dynamics of Exploration on Spotify" from @lee_lee_o @samfway @lucasmaystre and @ashton1anderson, collaboration between @SpotifyResearch and @UofT.
research.atspotify.com/the-d…
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Sam Way retweeted
8 Jul 2022
Excited to see @mounialalmas nominated for the 2022 VentureBeat Women in AI Awards under the AI Research category! Congratulations, Mounia!🎉 #research #ai @SpotifyResearch
8 Jul 2022
Meet the nominees for the 2022 VentureBeat Women in AI Awards! venturebeat.com/2022/07/08/m…
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