7:00 – 4:30 VTX

• Data-Driven Rankings – The Design and Development of the IEEE Top Programming Languages News App. Found this today reading Accountability in Algorithmic Decision Making. Both are written by Nick Diakopoulos. He’s an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park College of Journalism and a member of the UMD Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). I went to see him before at UMD and he seemed at the time to be more interested in how to compute news, but we seem to be converging, as can be seen by looking at his publications. I think I need to read A Survey on Assessment and Ranking Methodologies for User-Generated Content on the Web next, and then ping him for a talk.
• One of the things that’s particularly interesting to me is that I’m currently finishing up Incentivizing High-quality User-Generated Content, and he’s an author on Supporting Comment Moderators in Identifying High Quality Online News Comments, but in a quick scan of the references, there doesn’t seem to be inclusion of the information economics perspective or game theory.
• Finished  Incentivizing High-quality User-Generated Content. The discussion section is particularly interesting, where the authors discuss asymmetries, such as how a low-cost contribution by an expert could be a high cost contribution by a novice (e.g. StackOverflow), and a brief mention of trolling as an additional game component.
• Registered for CHIIR 2016
  • Booked flight Saturday, March 12, 2016 07:10 PM – March 16 Wed08:10 PM
  • Booked hotel
  • Still need to do ground transport. Going to try to avoid a car this time
• Laura Chiticariu. Her talk will be 3/7/2016, next Monday at 1pm.
  this is to be held in ITE 406
• Added a Google CSE compliant blacklist output.
• Scrum planning
  • Build generator that uses ‘person’ (used to be physician) files and generates a set of queries by search engine, term, etc.
  • Collate all the blacklist items so that they can be managed by the CSE
  • Get GoogleCSE credentials from Vinnie.