Brooks Ambrose is a visiting doctoral candidate from the Department of Sociology at UCLA and a member of the D-Lab Services Team. His work focuses on the measurement of boundaries in social and cultural organizations using relational data from the arts and sciences and from the entertainment industry. His dissertation applies network community detection and survival analysis methods to a century's worth of citation data to study the stratification and longevity of research fields in the social sciences in the 20th century.
Sebastian Benthall is a PhD student at the School of Information. He is interested in collective intelligence in an open collaborative setting, with a focus on open software development. He is also interested in the foundations and limits of data science.
