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My name is Brian C. Keegan and I am an American computational social scientist and assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Information Science. I was previously a research associate at the Harvard Business School and post-doctoral research fellow at Northeastern University. I received my PhD from the [http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/programs/phd_media_technology_society/ Media, Technology, Society] program at Northwestern University in 2012. I received my bachelors degrees in mechanical engineering and science, technology, and society at MIT and an International Baccalaureate diploma from Green Valley High School in Henderson, Nevada. My personal site and blog is is [http://www.brianckeegan.com here].

My [http://www.brianckeegan.com/dissertation/ dissertation] examined how Wikipedians collaborate to write about current and breaking news events. I use a variety of research methods such as network analysis, statistical models, data mining, natural language processing, and web-based experiments to understand analyze self-organization in peer production, model elections, understand group decision making on networks, and extract networks from institutional histories.

As this is my personal account, my edits do not reflect the views of my employers nor do I use this account for academic research. I previously controlled the account User:Collabolab for academic research purposes but no longer use or control this account. I controlled the account User:NEU-Brian for academic research purposes related to elections, polls, and political candidates.

I have been editing Wikipedia since June 2005. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Las_Vegas_Valley&diff=prev&oldid=15567517 1st edit] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology&diff=prev&oldid=113944040 1000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lehigh_University&diff=prev&oldid=131479361 2000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi&diff=prev&oldid=171561945 3000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:In_the_news/Important_living_people&diff=prev&oldid=206050296 4000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ghasty&diff=prev&oldid=222913707 5000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology&diff=prev&oldid=227248164 6000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northwestern_University&diff=prev&oldid=239641550 7000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northwestern_University&diff=prev&oldid=261850072 8000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Residential_colleges_of_Rice_University&diff=prev&oldid=283304297 9000th] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Joseph_Priestley&diff=prev&oldid=297177712 10000th]

I mostly help out at WikiProject Colleges and Universities by cleaning up boosterism, recentism, and other cruft that tends to accumulate on articles about American colleges and universities as well as reviewing articles going up for GA and FA.

I apparently really like to edit on Tuesdays: [http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=Madcoverboy&l=all]

My long-time username stems from the fact that I was told I resembled Alfred E. Neuman growing up.