7:00 – ASRC

• Get a new copy of SPSS? My license has expired.
• Some thoughts about librarians in the internet age from PBS. This is more of the guide instead of recommender thing for Friday.
• Start writing up NIH proposal
• Working on Shimei’s evaluation. Oops – getting some kind of parse exception. Ah. I was calling the PDF parser. Cut and paste error.
  • Took terms from ratemyprofessor.com
    • Top three comments that were longer than a sentance for top three professors rated 5.0 and below, 4.0 and below, 3.0 and below. Giving a corpora consisting of 27 entries
    • Broken into three texts, sorted by LSI, with top 25% terms used
    • Centrality calculated using PageRank algorithm with terms as links
    • Culled out terms such as ‘there’ and ‘about’
    • Reweighted documents based on overall counts
    • Remaining sorted terms were:
      

      project

      write

      group

      stupid

      slide

      curve

      clearly

      member

      helpful

      workload

      unrealistic

      worst

      experience

      midterm

      school

      homework

      great

      exactly

      knowledgable

      science

      flexible

    • Build likert scale questionnaire grounded in the top x terms?
    • I can use the terms pointing into the text to ground the questions (e.g. “Three easy exams and two easy projects. It would be hard not to get an A.”
  • Wrote up response to RFI with Aaron