Phil 10.20.16

ASRC 7:00 – 6:00

Fixing slides
- Add breadcrumbs in the lower border throughout
- Add timeline that starts back at the initial politifact paper
Timeline
- December 2013
  - Register Dr. Lutters as advisor and committee chair, began building committee
  - Begin research into Trustworthy Anonymous Citizen Journalism
  - Lit review on writing stylometry identification
  - Begin JavaScript development of anonymous posting system
- February 2014
  - Lost my ‘20% research time’ things slow down
- April 2014
  - Comprehensive Exam
- April 2014
  - Fact-checking research
  - Google Similarity Distance
- June 2014
  - Similarity distance app: http://philfeldman.com/WebGLSimDistTest.html
- July 2014
  - Stylometry and biometric research (webapp data collection)
  - http://philfeldman.com/Recognizer1.html
- August 2014
  - Initial version of full-stack biometric system: http://philfeldman.com/irev2.html
- September 2014
  - Transition from YUI to Angular
- October 2014
  - IRB approval
- December 2014
  - Full biometric app with data viewer
  - User app: http://tajour.com/iRevApps/irev3.php
  - Analytics: http://tajour.com/iRevApps/irev3.php
  - Mechanical Turk HIT generation and coordination app
- January 2015
  - Mechanical Turk data gathering
  - TEI 2015
- February 2015
  - Trustworthy Anonymous Journalism talk: http://philfeldman.com/iRevTalk/
  - MS in HCC awarded
- March 2015
  - Start Bayesian and cluster analysis of Politifact data
  - PageRank and Eigentrust presentation for IS800
- April 2015
  - Continued Bayesian and cluster analysis of Politifact data
- May 2015
  - Finished Bayesian analysis and wrote first draft of the paper
- June 2015
  - Submission of Trustworthy, Distrustworthy, and Newsworthy: Fact Checking by Inferred Reputation to CSCW 2016
- July 2015
  - Began first stab at the full-stack news reader. Depends on the Google News RSS feed and Alchemy’s parser. Lots of work on links, authors, text, etc.
- October 2015
  - Initial version of the newsreader running – begin looking for data and testing. Stalled out.
- November 2015
  - Starting Lit review
  - Started looking at Saracevic’s work and thinking about leveraging a user’s search for pertinent information inside a relevant SERP to understand the user’s information needs and browsing patterns.
  - Added dictionaries and centrality calculations to the webapp. Started to think about bubbles and antibubbles. Can’t seem to get good data, and the display is confusing. Need to rethink things.
- December 2015
  - Started to think about user behavior being the indicator I want to look for based on this Planet Money episode on A/B testing
  - Finished assembling committee
- January 2016
  - Started using AtlasTi for LitReview
  - Discovered StanfordNLP
- March 2016
  - CHIIR 2016
  - Discovered Group Polarization – started thinking about flocking models
- April 2016
  - First successful calculations of AtlasTi output.
  - Started developing centrality app (Language Model Testbed, or LMT)
- May 2016
  - LMT development
    - Added graph compare using bootstrapping
    - Term extraction using TF-IDF and LSI
    - PDF and html ingestion
    - Term filtering
    - Excel .xlsx output
  - Began centrality for qualitative research paper
- June 2016
  - Finished paper, but incorporated into proposal
  - Began proposal
  - Began testing LMN on papers (CSCW 2016 corpora)
- July 2016
  - Began agent-based modelling of information bubbles with spreadsheets
- August 2016
  - Started simulation framework for Group Polarization agents
  - Added ARFF output to LMT
- September 2016
  - Started Research Browser
- October 2016
  - Submitted Proposal
  - Proposed