Anna Semenova

In the "+/-10 minutes" release, Anna Semenova, a junior research fellow at the Laboratory of Applied Network Research and the International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis, a postgraduate student at the Faculty of Computer Science and a representative of the online master's programme "Data Analytics and Social Statistics", told how one can explain why Moscow became the capital of Russia or why you received fake news last week. Anna analyzed such problems from the point of view of centrality measures, and also explained what types of centrality exist and what other studies can be conducted in this way.

On July 25th a workshop on centrality in network analysis was held.

On May 20-21, theXIV International Conference on Network Analysis took place, at which ANR-Lab members presented their work.

The International Laboratory for Applied Network Research celebrated its 10th anniversary. In honor of this, a number of events were organized.

On March 30, the Data Analytics and Social Statistics programme held a series of events as part of an Open Day at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The programme of events assumed a hybrid format and included several presentations by representatives of the master's programme.

Young ANR-Lab researchers have achieved high results in the field of educational, scientific and teaching activities.

From July 4–8, the 14th Summer School ‘Methods and Tools for Analysing Social Networks’ was held by the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research (ANR Lab). The dissemination of knowledge about the most recent methods of network analysis is one of the goals of the laboratory. Social network analysis is an interdisciplinary field that studies networks of interactions between different objects (such as people, organisations, institutions, countries, words in texts, texts on the internet) and identifying hidden patterns within them.

On July 8, the Summer School 'Methods and Tools for Analyzing Social Networks' ended. We present you a brief overview of the events that the ANR-Lab team held as part of the 14th Summer School.

On July 3, the graduation of the master's programme 'Applied Statistics with Network Analysis' was held for students of the 2021 enrollment.

On June 15-16, 2023, the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration held an online conference on the topic "Digital Management and Public Administration: results of interdisciplinary research". Research projects on interdisciplinary perspectives of digital governance transformation in the field of public administration were presented. The co-chairs were the Scientific Director of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration of the Higher School of Economics, Professor of the School of Public Administration and Political Sciences of the University of HaifaEran Vigoda-Gadot and the head of the laboratoryEvgeny Styrin.

On April 22, the birthday of the Faculty of Social Sciences took place, in which the ANR-lab took part.

Since September 2022, ANR-Lab continues to train 3rd year students at the “Applied and Network Analytics” minor.

How can the metaverse help to improve public administration? Can gamification change attitudes to data? And how can governments create ethical data policies? On June 29–30 2022, the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration held an online conference dedicated to these questions and more. The conference was organised and moderated by Laboratory Head Evgeny Styrin and Leading Research Fellow Anna Sanina.