Sam Way
@samfway
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Professional curious person. Tweets about computational social science, data visualization, network science, science of science, musicology.
Boulder, CO
Joined August 2011
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:
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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. https://t.co/oUPnbjRgng
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Socially-Motivated Music Recommendation | Spotify Research
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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: https://t.co/UujK9MbkYg
#recsys #music #popculture #Algorithms #spotify #newmusic
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How do people stream newly released music? | Spotify Research
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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
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How do people stream newly released music? | Spotify Research
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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.
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: https://t.co/DPeGiLSLba Here’s a summary 📝
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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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🚨📢 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: https://t.co/rDv6G7vv7h
https://t.co/1bN8mLRuSD
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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!
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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
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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.
@SpotifyResearch blogpost on our recent research on goal-focused exploration of podcast recommendations, in collaboration with @ylyuliang , @nediyana , and @plamere :
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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! 🎧
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Personalization is at the heart of what we do at Spotify—just think of fan-favorite playlists like Discover Weekly, or our annual Wrapped campaign. The beauty of these experiences is our ability to...
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🚨 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:
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📢 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)
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Last call! Applications to spend the summer at @SpotifyResearch are due this week. It's a fun gig 🎸
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
Come work with me at @NYUAD_SocialSci (& collaborators @CompAudition at MPI) as a 3-year Postdoc: https://t.co/loWAIvlkkO 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. https://t.co/3Dkcjmp0J0
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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
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Spotify finds that younger users have more diverse taste in music, but older users want to discover new music that's similar to what they know and like.
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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. https://t.co/r18qbr9BZm
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Excited to see @mounialalmas nominated for the 2022 VentureBeat Women in AI Awards under the AI Research category! Congratulations, Mounia!🎉 #research #ai @SpotifyResearch
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