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National Science Foundation Grant Award to Investigate Online Social Media Discourse Trends

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portrait image of Junyuan Lin, assistant professor of mathematics.

Prof. Lin and her team of graduate and undergraduate students will analyze data from X (formerly Twitter) to discover correlations of topics and predict patterns on sentiment changes.Junyuan Lin, assistant professor of mathematics at Loyola Marymount University, will investigate “Spectral Algorithms for Dynamic Social Networks and Knowledge Graphs” thanks to $250,000 in grant funding recently … Read more

A fraudster is impersonating your online business. What can you do?

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The Federal Trade Commission received more than 330,000 reports of impersonating businesses in 2023. Some of these scammers pretend to be large corporations like Amazon or Best Buy, the FTC says. But small businesses are at risk, too, says Scott Taber, a cybersecurity awareness program specialist at the Michigan Small Business Development Center. “There has … Read more