Chris Volinsky

Data Scientist and Educator

Full Publications List


Connected cars in a cellular network: A measurement study


Carlos E. Andrade, Simon D. Byers, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Emir Halepovic, David J. Poole, Lien K. Tran, Christopher T. Volinsky

IMC : Internet Measurement Conference, 2017


Can you find me now? Evaluation of network-based localization in a 4G LTE network


Robert Margolies, Richard Becker, Simon Byers, Supratim Deb, Rittwik Jana, Simon Urbanek, Chris Volinsky

2017 May, pp. 1-9


Data Analytics for Urban Mobility Modeling and Traffic Control


Jean-Francois Paiement, M. Yin, Jeff Pang, Colin Goodall, Ann Skudlark, Chris Volinsky, A. Pozdnoukhov

Bloomberg Data For Good Exchange, 2015


Local Structural Features Threaten Privacy across Social Networks


Priya Govindan, J Xu, Shawndra Hill, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Chris Volinsky

The 5th Workshop on Information in Networks, 2013


Human mobility characterization from cellular network data


Richard Becker, Ramon Caceres, Karrie Hanson, Sibren Isaacman, Ji Meng Loh, Margaret Martonosi, James Rowland, Simon Urbanek, Alexander Varshavsky, Chris Volinsky

Commun. ACM, vol. 56, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2013 Jan, pp. 74--82


Can we talk? The impact of willingness to recommend on a new-to-market service brand extension within a social network


Lerzan Aksoy, Alexander Buoye, Bruce Cooil, Timothy L Keiningham, DeDe Paul, Chris Volinsky

Journal of Service Research, vol. 14, SAGE Publications, 2011, pp. 355--371


Clustering Anonymized Mobile Call Detail Records to Find Usage Groups


Richard A Becker, Ram{\'o}n C{\'a}ceres, Karrie Hanson, Ji Meng Loh, Simon Urbanek, Alexander Varshavsky, Chris Volinsky

Ist Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications, 2011


Route classification using cellular handoff patterns


Richard A Becker, Ramon Caceres, Karrie Hanson, Ji Meng Loh, Simon Urbanek, Alexander Varshavsky, Chris Volinsky

13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), 2011


Fraud detection in telecommunications: History and lessons learned


Richard A Becker, Chris Volinsky, Allan R Wilks

Technometrics, vol. 52, Taylor \& Francis, 2010, pp. 20--33


All together now: A perspective on the netflix prize


Robert M Bell, Yehuda Koren, Chris Volinsky

Chance, vol. 23, Springer, 2010, pp. 24--24


The million dollar programming prize


Robert Bell, Jim Bennett, Yehuda Koren, Chris Volinsky

Spectrum, IEEE, vol. 46, IEEE, 2009, pp. 28--33


Putting recommendations on the map: visualizing clusters and relations


Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu, Stephen Kobourov, Chris Volinsky

Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Recommender systems, ACM, 2009, pp. 345--348


Matrix factorization techniques for recommender systems


Yehuda Koren, Robert Bell, Chris Volinsky

Computer, vol. 42, IEEE, 2009, pp. 30--37


Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets


Yifan Hu, Yehuda Koren, Chris Volinsky

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Winner of 2017 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award, 2008


Modeling Relationships at Multiple Scales to Improve Accuracy of Large Recommender Systems


Robert M. Bell, Yehuda Koren, Chris Volinsky

KDD '07: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2007, pp. 95--104


Chasing $1,000,000: How We Won The Netflix Progress Prize


Robert M. Bell, Yehuda Koren, Chris Volinsky

Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Newsletter, vol. 18, 2007, pp. 4-12


Measuring and extracting proximity graphs in networks


Yehuda Koren, Stephen C. North, Chris Volinsky

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, vol. 1, New York, NY, USA, 2007, p. 12


Modifying Boosted Trees to Improve Performance on Task 1 of the 2006 KDD Challenge Cup


Robert M. Bell, Patrick G. Haffner, Chris Volinsky

SIGKDD Explorations, vol. 8, 2006, pp. 47-52


Building an Effective Representation for Dynamic Networks


Shawndra Hill, Deepak Agarwal, Robert Bell, Chris Volinsky

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, vol. 15, 2006, pp. 584--608


Network-based Marketing: Identifying likely adopters via consumer networks


Shawndra Hill, Foster Provost, Chris Volinsky

Statistical Science, vol. 21, 2006, pp. 256--276


Measuring and Extracting Proximity in Networks


Yehuda Koren, Stephen C. North, Chris Volinsky

KDD '06: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2006, pp. 245--255


Mining Customer Care Dialogs for "Daily News"


Shona Douglas, Deepak Agarwal, Tirso Alonso, Robert Bell, Mazin Rahim, Deborah Swayne, Chris Volinsky

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (Special Data Mining Issue), vol. 13, 2005, pp. 652-660


The Gift of Gab: Evidence TelE-Commerce Firms Can Profit from Viral Marketing


Shawndra Hill, Foster Provost, Chris Volinsky

Statistical Challenges in ECommerce: The First Interdisciplinary Symposium Between Information Systems, Statistics, and Related Fields, 2005


BMA: An R Package for Bayesian Model Averaging


Adrian E. Raftery, Ian Painter, Chris Volinsky

{R} News, vol. 5, 2005, pp. 2-8


Computational Methods for Dynamic Graphs


Corinna Cortes, Daryl Pregibon, Chris Volinsky

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, vol. 12, 2003, pp. 950-970


The use of Bayesian model averaging to better represent uncertainty in the predictions of ecological models.


Brendan Wintle, M.A. McCarthy, Chris Volinsky, R. P. Kavanagh

Conservation Biology, vol. 17, 2003, pp. 1579-1590


Parallel Coordinates for Exploratory Modelling Analysis


Antony Unwin, Chris Volinsky, Sylvia Winkler

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol. 28, 2002, pp. 553-564


Communities of Interest


Corinna Cortes, Daryl Pregibon, Chris Volinsky

Proceedings of Intelligent Data Analysis 2001, 2001, pp. 105--114


Assessment of Response Bias in Mild Head Injury: Beyond Malingering Tests


Scott R. Millis, Chris Volinsky

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 23, 2001, pp. 809-828


Bayesian Information Criterion for Censored Survival Models


Chris T. Volinsky, Adrian E. Raftery

Biometrics, vol. 56, 2000, pp. 256-262


Squashing Flat Files Flatter


Bill DuMouchel, Chris Volinsky, Theodore Johnson, Corinna Cortes, Daryl Pregibon

KDD '99: Proceedings of the 5th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, AAAI Press, 1999, pp. 6-15


Bayesian Model Averaging: A Tutorial


Jennifer A. Hoeting, David Madigan, Adrian Raftery, Chris T. Volinsky

Statistical Science, vol. 14, 1999, pp. 382-401


Bayesian Information Criterion for Censored Survival Models


Chris T. Volinsky, Adrian E. Raftery

Department of Statistics, University of Washington, 1999


Bayesian Model Averaging for Censored Survival Models


Chris Volinsky

University of Washington, 1997


Bayesian Model Averaging in Proportional Hazard Models: Assessing the Risk of a Stroke


Chris T. Volinsky, David Madigan, Adrian E. Raftery, Richard A. Kronmal

Applied Statistics, vol. 46, 1997, pp. 443-448


Bayesian Model Averaging and Model Selection for Markov Equivalence Classes of Acyclic Digraphs


David Madigan, Steen A. Andersson, Michael Perlman, Chris T. Volinsky

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, vol. 25, 1996, pp. 2493-2520


Bayesian Model Averaging


David Madigan, Adrian E. Raftery, Chris Volinsky, Jennifer Hoeting

P. Chan, S. Stolofo, D. Wolpert, Integrating Multiple Learned Models (IMLM96), 1996


Accounting for Model Uncertainty in Survival Analysis Improves Predictive Performance (with discussion)


Adrian E. Raftery, David Madigan, Chris T. Volinsky

J.M. Bernardo, J.O. Berger, A.P. Dawid, A.F.M Smith, {B}ayesian Statistics 5, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 323--349