{"id":15392,"date":"2020-05-19T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=15392"},"modified":"2020-06-04T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:03:22","slug":"summer-research-spotlight-bill-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/19\/summer-research-spotlight-bill-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Research Spotlight: Bill Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/wmrand\/?utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CDTFb7aiSZgT98oq8-tvX2LXLns7U3jik9Ok1Db091d9YNdEs2pvJAvepAceMJDWA8IJY\">Bill Rand<\/a>, associate director of marketing, was recently awarded a $103,004 grant from the Lab for Analytic Science (LAS) to continue his work on methods to detect characterize, and assess state-sponsored influence campaigns using publicly available social media data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In collaboration with Ph.D. statistics student Anthony Weishampel, Rand will use the grant to apply functional data analyses to model the volume and lifespans of marketing and state-sponsored influence campaigns on social media.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/preview.hs-sites.com\/_hcms\/preview\/content\/25952547905?portalId=173571&amp;_preview=true&amp;cacheBust=1582915151679&amp;preview_key=tYxgyeGP&amp;from_buffer=false\">Poole Research Perspective<\/a>&nbsp;for more information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:ncst\/dynamic-header -->\n<!-- wp:ncst\/default-post-header \/-->\n<!-- \/wp:ncst\/dynamic-header -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/wmrand\/?utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CDTFb7aiSZgT98oq8-tvX2LXLns7U3jik9Ok1Db091d9YNdEs2pvJAvepAceMJDWA8IJY\">Bill Rand<\/a>, associate director of marketing, was recently awarded a $103,004 grant from the Lab for Analytic Science (LAS) to continue his work on methods to detect characterize, and assess state-sponsored influence campaigns using publicly available social media data. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In collaboration with Ph.D. statistics student Anthony Weishampel, Rand will use the grant to apply functional data analyses to model the volume and lifespans of marketing and state-sponsored influence campaigns on social media.  <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>See the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/preview.hs-sites.com\/_hcms\/preview\/content\/25952547905?portalId=173571&amp;_preview=true&amp;cacheBust=1582915151679&amp;preview_key=tYxgyeGP&amp;from_buffer=false\">Poole Research Perspective<\/a>&nbsp;for more information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Rand was recently awarded a $103,004 grant from the Lab for Analytic Science (LAS) to continue his work on 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