I host most of my research at the http://data-analytics.net/, but use this Github site to share code, particularly regarding various R Projects that I’m working on. I also maintain an informal blog on this site to discuss various musings and experiments that I’ve attempted with code.

PhD Thesis

David Beskow. Finding and Characterizing Information Warfare Operations Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Thesis. Advised by Kathleen M. Carley. (2020)link

Publications

Magelinski, Thomas, David Beskow, and Kathleen M. Carley. Graph-Hist: Graph Classification from Latent Feature Histograms With Application to Bot Detection Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (2020). link

Beskow, David M., and Kathleen M. Carley. Investing in Social Cybersecurity. Naval Science and Technology Future Force. Vol 6. No 2. (2020) link

Beskow, David M., Sumeet Kumar, and Kathleen M. Carley. The evolution of political memes: Detecting and characterizing internet memes with multi-modal deep learning. Information Processing & Management 57.2 (2020): 102170. link

Beskow, David M., and Kathleen M. Carley. Social cybersecurity: an emerging national security requirement. Military Review 99.2 (2019): 117. link

Beskow, David M., and Kathleen M. Carley. Bot conversations are different: leveraging network metrics for bot detection in Twitter. 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). IEEE, 2018. link

Beskow, David M., and Kathleen M. Carley. Agent Based Simulation of Bot Disinformation Maneuvers in Twitter Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference. IEEE, 2019. link

Beskow, David M., and Kathleen M. Carley. The Flows of Democracy: Visual Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Political Parties. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Springer, Cham, 2019. link

Babcock, Matthew, David M. Beskow, and Kathleen M. Carley. Different Faces of False: The Spread and Curtailment of False Information in the Black Panther Twitter Discussion. Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) 11.4 (2019): 1-15. link

Beskow, David M., and Kathleen M. Carley. Its all in a name: detecting and labeling bots by their name. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 25.1 (2019): 24-35. link

Beskow, David, and Kathleen M. Carley. Introducing bothunter: A tiered approach to detection and characterizing automated activity on twitter. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Springer, Cham. 2018. link

Beskow, David M., and Kathleen M. Carley. Using random string classification to filter and annotate automated accounts. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Springer, Cham, 2018. link

Babcock, Matthew, David M. Beskow, and Kathleen M. Carley. Beaten up on Twitter? Exploring fake news and satirical responses during the Black Panther movie event. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Springer, Cham, 2018. link

Evangelista, P. F. & Beskow, D.. Geospatial Point Density, The R Journal, 2018, 10 347-356. link

David Beskow, Caitlin Rowe, Jed Lee, Marat Nugmanov, Ruben Vargas, Data Fusion for Regionally Aligned Forces, Systems Conference (SysCon), 2015 9th Annual IEEE International

David Beskow, David Blum, Nathan Gustafson, Emily Kern, and Jessica Waggoner, Data Collection, Fusion, and Visualization for Decision Making in Stability, Proceedings of the 2014 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference

David Beskow, Zachary Horovitz, Tyler Maeker, Marissa Malta, and Thomas Schafer, Decision Support Tool for the Global Reaction Force Outload Process, Proceedings of the 2014 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference

David Beskow and Daniel McCarthy, Installation Services Requirements Determination Analysis: Electrical Services (nominated for MORS Bartchi Award), 80th MORS Symposium Working Group 25

David Beskow and Lynn Whitaker, Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Tactical Integrated Ground Reporting, Accepted for presentation at the Military Operations Research Society Stephen A. Tisdale Competition, (Monterey, California), May 2011