Derek is a Professor of Computer Science at McGill University. He believes thoughtful data science can make our lives more fun, fair, and connected. He also believes that it takes all of us to realize that promise.
Recent News
- (2025.04.24) We grabbed 99% of everything posted to TikTok in an hour. Our manuscript on what we found in it is now on arXiv. The result of a collaboration with Jürgen Pfeffer.
- (2025.04.22) Congratulations to all the undergrads finishing my offering of Computers and Society (COMP 189). It's been a great semester!
- (2025.01.06) Kicking off a semester undergrad research project building bots and bot detectors as part of our funded work on the problem of disinformation.
- (2024.11.16) Our paper The Social Lives of Literary Characters: Combining citizen science and language models to understand narrative social networks at the International Conference for Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities is out.
- (2024.11.13) Our paper Story Morals: Surfacing value-driven narrative schemas using large language models is out at EMNLP.
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