Normally, I’d be doing my plots of COVID deaths for the month of April, but the disease is now working its way through countries that are not accurately reporting counts. I heard today on the BBC that India’s counts could be 2-8 times higher than reported.

GPT Agents

• Good Gephi filters tutorial
• After making a bunch of maps yesterday, and in particular, struggling with the conspiracy theory map that has no useful Wikipedia ground truth to eliminate cruft, I realize I’m going to have to build a more interactive tool. It should be useful for other things, like Antonio’s concept mapper. It can also support multiple prompts, like
  • “A short list of {}”
  • “A short list of {} that are similar to {}”
  • “A short list of the elements that make up {}”
• The human chooses the nodes that make sense, and intermediate networks are drawn at each pass through the results. The exit is manual, and writing out a gml file can happen at any time
• Going to try Plotly for this. If I can make dynamic lists of checkboxes, then I should be ok, otherwise TKinter
  • Making progress with Plotly!

• Got everything working! Going to make it a class now

• 5:00 Meeting

SBIR

• 9:15 Standup
• Meet with Rukan after to see how things are going
• Create final report template with material from previous reports
• Set up meeting with Clay to discuss commercialization strategy