Welcome to Zack Almquist's Research Page

I am a graduate student in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, I am employed as a Graduate Student Researcher for my advisor, Carter T. Butts, (research page can be found here) as part of the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics (NCASD) Lab.

Currently, my research focuses on three areas within the intersection of sociology, social network analysis, and demography: (1) dynamically evolving networks; (2) spatial interactions with network structure; and (3) measurement of social network data.

Dynamic networks:

• Almquist, Zack W. and Butts, Carter T. (2011). Contending Parties: A Logistic Choice Analysis of Inter and Intra-group Blog Citation Dynamics in the 2004 US Presidential Election. IMBS Technical Report MBS 11-06, University of California, Irvine.
• Almquist, Zack W. and Butts, Carter T. (2011). Logistic Network Regression for Scalable Analysis of Networks with Joint Edge/Vertex Dynamics. IMBS Technical Report MBS 11-03, University of California, Irvine.

Visualization, simulation, and analysis of geolocated demographic and networkd data:

• Almquist, Zack W. and Butts, Carter T. (forthcoming). Point Process Models for Household Distributions within Small Areal Units. Demographic Research.
• Almquist, Zack W. (2010). US Census Spatial and Demographic Data in R: The UScensus2000 Suite of Packages. Journal of Statistical Software, 37(6): 1--31.

Network sampling and measurement:

• Almquist, Zack W. (in press). Random Errors in Egocentric Networks. Social Networks.
• Kurant, Maciej; Gjoka, Minas; Wang, Yan; Almquist, Zack W.; Butts, Carter T.; and Markopoulou, Athina. (accepted). Coarse-Grained Topology Estimation via Graph Sampling. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) '12.