====== WG 1 Exploring (massive) network data sets ====== **Chairs:** Mariaclelia Di Serio and Silvia Fierascu This group will deal with sampling data from, of and on networks. How can one determine whether a viral advertising campaign was successful? What is the difference between sampling a gene regulatory network in a transsectional or longitudinal manner and does it matter? How can one sample from highly or poorly connected nodes in an infectious disease network?