umitkaanusta

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/umitkaanusta

Name: Ümit Kaan Usta
Location: Istanbul
Company: @amzn Amazon
Kind: user
Followers: 113
Following: 264
Total stars: 427
Repositories count: 19
Created at: 2022-11-15T16:54:28.871Z
Updated at: 2024-05-01T10:09:36.883Z
Last synced at: 2024-05-01T10:09:35.455Z

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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.