Intro

Hi, I'm Umit from Istanbul! Currently interning at Amazon where I build models to forecast, plan, and understand our supply chain - and a rising senior CS student at Marmara Uni.
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What I build

I build tools to understand human behavior with data science, specifically focusing on social networks, information diffusion, political information operations, and conflicts.
I'll also start contributing to Graph Theory / Social Network Analysis libraries with implementations of different algorithms from academic papers.

My goals

As a student, I will use the funds to get the needed data and computing power, and to secure time to contribute to Open Source. Particular goals are:

• [ ] 3 Contributions to top Graph libraries (e.g. NetworkX) with algorithms from academic papers
• [ ] Performance updates to reddit-detective
• [ ] Campaigning to increase adoption for reddit-detective, the focus is on getting some news outlets to use it to track US Elections discussions and disinformation campaigns.
• [ ] A project offering explainability to time-series models
• [ ] A project modeling casualties in modern warfare to help researchers and journalists have a glimpse of what is actually happening in the field.