Today we talk with Jen Golbeck, who is known for her work in computational social network analysis. Her models for computing trust between people in social networks were amongst the first in the field. Now, she’s a professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park.

In this episode, she discusses her path to web science, her work in trust-based recommender systems, and how we can use web data to understand people's behaviors. But Jen isn't just interested in people — she's also become somewhat of an expert on dogs on the internet. Or more accurately, social media networks centered around pets.

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