orcid.org/0000-0002-3377-7823Peer-Reviewed Research
Chah, N. (May 2019). "Towards A Graph of (American) Tech Companies: A Prototype Visualization Tool for Research on Technology and Users." Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3290607.3313058
Chah, N. (Mar. 2019). "i18n-CKG: Considerations in Building Internationalization Contextualized Knowledge Graphs." Proceedings of the Contextual Knowledge Graphs (CKG) Workshop 2018 co-located with International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), October 2018. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2317/
Kim, N., Caidi, N., and Chah, N. (Mar. 2019). "‘Our Korea’: Transcultural Affinities as Negotiated Through YouTube." Information Research, 24(1). http://www.informationr.net/ir/24-1/isic2018/isic1828.html
Thomson, L., Caidi, N., Yoon, K., Forcier, E., Kim, A., and Chah, N. (Feb. 2019). "The YouTube Formula: Information Work and Community-Building in a Visual Era." Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2018, 55(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501096
Chah, N. (Feb. 2019). "Down the deep rabbit hole: Untangling deep learning from machine learning and artificial intelligence." First Monday, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i2.8237
Conferences
[Workshop] Chah, N. "i18n-CKG: Internationalization Contextualized Knowledge Graphs." presented at Noei, E., Lyons, K., Stroulia, E., and Andritsos, P. (Nov. 2019). "Fourth Annual Workshop on Data-Driven Knowledge Mobilization." IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON) 2019.
[Paper] Chah, N. (Sep. 2019). "Discovering Traces of an Archived Component of Google's Knowledge Graph from the Freebase Data Dumps." Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2019.
[Panel] Thomson, L., Caidi, N., Yoon, K., Forcier, E., Kim, A., and Chah, N. (Nov. 2018). "The YouTube Formula: Information Work and Community-Building in a Visual Era." Annual Meeting of The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 2018.
[Panel] Thomson, L., Caidi, N., Yoon, K., Forcier, E., Kim, A., and Chah, N. (Nov. 2018). "The YouTube Formula: Information Work and Community-Building in a Visual Era." Annual Meeting of The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 2018.
[Workshop] Chah, N. "i18n-CKG: Internationalization Contextualized Knowledge Graphs." presented at Lyons, K., Stroulia, E., and Mindel, M. (Oct. 2018). "Third Annual Workshop on Data-Driven Knowledge Mobilization." IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON) 2018.
[Paper] Kim, N., Caidi, N., and Chah, N. (Oct. 2018). "Our Korea: Transcultural Affinities as Negotiated Through YouTube." Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2018.
[Paper] Kim, N., Caidi, N., and Chah, N. (June 2018). "Whose Korea?: Intercultural Encounters Mediated Through YouTube Videos." Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2018.
[Paper] Chah, N., and Kim, N. (June 2018). "Passion That Connects, But Is It For Sustainability?: How Social Media During the 2018 Winter Olympics Interfaces with Sustainability." International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2018.
[Paper] Kim, N., and Chah, N. (June 2018). "Will They Survive?: The sustainability of Ethnic Media Industry in Canada." International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2018.
[Poster] Ferrario, M.A., Andritsos, P., Chah, N., and Bittencourt, T. (May 2018). "Before and After the Financial Crash: The Corporate Network Evolution and Sustainability Implications." International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) 2018.
[Poster] Chah, N., and Andritsos, P. (Nov. 2017). "Profiling Billions of Triples: The Case of Freebase Data Dumps." IBM Center for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON) 2017.
[Poster] Kim N., Caidi N. and Chah N. (July 2017). "Designing for Diversity: Intercultural Engagement Through YouTube." International Conference on Social Media & Society (SM&S) 2017.
Open-source Code
[Code] Niel Chah and Anthony Bloomer. 2018. github-traffic-stats. Python Package Index (PyPI). pypi.org/project/github-traffic-stats/.
– Released an open-source Python library to obtain GitHub traffic and download statistics. As of April 2018, the GitHub repository has 19 ★ stars and 10 ⑂ forks.
Invited Talks
University of Toronto, RSM327: Business Information Systems. (Mar. 7, 2018; Mar. 5-6, 2019). – Canada’s (& Big Data + Computing’s) Contributions to Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
University of Toronto, INF2186: Metadata Schemas and Applications. (Mar. 6, Nov. 19-21, 2018). – Linked Data is Everywhere
Visiting Delegation from KOFAC, South Korea. (Oct. 2017). – Canada’s Contributions to Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Canada Now: 2017 iSchool Student Conference (University of Toronto). (March 2017).
Hackathons
MigrahackTO
November 2017, Mozilla Toronto
– Mentored for a hackathon on immigration and migration data issues with representatives from government agencies, NGOs, and universities. Led a workshop on Mapping Data Boot Camp.
Saving the Web Symposium
June 2016, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
– Presented my team’s work with web archives, named entity recognition, and visualization for the Archives Unleashed 2.0 Datathon.
Archives Unleashed 2.0 Datathon
June 2016, Washington D.C.
– Applied Named Entity Recognition and text analysis at a hackathon organized by the University of Waterloo, the Internet Archive, and others.
Archives Unleashed Hackathon
March 2016, Toronto
– Applied computer vision and text analysis at a hackathon organized by the University of Waterloo, the Internet Archive, and the University of Toronto.