5:30 – 6:30 BRI

• Catching up on email, etc.

8:00 – Research

• Patching IntelliJ
• enabling ‘no borders’ option
• Collective Intelligence 2017 Notes
• Geoff Mulligan
  • Copernicus EU project
  • AIME – Disease outbreak prediction
  • MetaSUB
  • English cancer xxx xxx?
  • ORID (Taiwan) Uses slideshare, discourse, pol.is, livehouse.in
  • Economics has been hopeless WRT developing models that pay for such collective intelligence assemblies
  • The enemies of collective intelligence
  • The economics of algorithmic decision making and human decisions queresha
  • Rare disease patients are driving this technology because of the need and low funds
  • Icelandic collective intelligence Iceland democracy is a good example?
  • Link into action and feedback is a problem common across many of these projects
• Tom Kalil
  • Prize – driven development
  • Prediction markets for technology forecasting
  • Philanthropy: Nimble, Prizes over grants and contracts. People who know how to build an effective prize
  • Bullet points as a way of driving through change. Magic laptop experiment. Any press release you write will come true. Look up. (Is this gamification?)
    • Provides Agency
    • Value of concreteness
    • Articulate who needs to do what
    • Has to be at least plausible (the entities could be expected to do these things)
  • Tony Bright(?) Networking of improvement communities.
  • R&D and pilots.
  • User-driven innovation (contributing to economies)
  • Funds to focus on access and participation
• Dana Lewit
  • Artificial intelligence is everywhere – stop waiting
  • DIY artificial pancrias
  • Inability to sway manufacturers
  • Twitter as a source of technical fixes? How?
  • Gateway technology – Rasbery PI is very cheap, good community makes it easy to work with
  • #OpenAPS maker movement for DIY medical devices
  • Thousands of hours of development
  • What about the risk/reward of sharing data – targeting ads at low blood sugar
• Darlene Cavalier
  • Citizen Science Projects
  • TPBS – The Crowd in the Cloud
  • 1500 projects (What about power law issues and bias from the main contributors?)
  • Charismatic vs. invisible science needs?
  • Facilitator – make the process attractive for users
  • Scistarter Solutions Lab
  • ECAST Citizen science ecastnetwork.org
• The field of ‘Frugal Science’ (low cost tools) Tool making science?
• Jordan Barelow
  • CA State Fullerton
  • Woolley et. al. 2010 – no correlation or small between individual and group intelligence
  • What happens at the limit? Minimum threshold, max ceiling?
  • Performance on one task may not correlate with performance on another task. Why? What is it about highly structured tools?
  • Production work being individual – what about pair programming?
• Carsten Bergen-Holtz – Ikea effect agent-based simulation
  • Ikea effect – we tend to overvalue our sulutions
  • Efficient vs. inefficient networks efficient – all information is seen (is this bad?)
• Then the batteries died
• Mark Ackerman
  • New architecture for crowdsourcing knowledge
  • 8chan’s /pol/community -> kicked off 4chan for being too extreme
  • Beginnings of PizzaGate/Podesta/etc
  • Dog-whistle memes
  • Every post is anonymous
  • Outraged that something bad is happening to america. Sense of rage. Conspiracy thinking
  • Deliberate gaming of the Facebook algorithms and media sources.
  • Click based advertising is heavily selected for
  • Overton Window
• Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 20th Century
  • Noshir Contractor
  • Match.com for teams
• Noshir Contractor
  • too much too fast. Team building, but needs some disentangling, I think
• Hila Lifshitz–Assaf
  • Is innovation different at different scales and platforms
  • Best R&D practice fail with ‘makeathons’????

Research

• Got turned down for CSCW
• On my way to CI 2017. Arrived! Spent a lovely afternoon/evening wandering around lower Manhattan. It’s noting like I remember. Traffic is light except at the tunnels. Almost no honking. A driver stopped for me as I crossed the street! Very little graffiti. I kinda feel like a time traveller.

Jaron Lanier on NPR todayNPR

7:30 – 2:00 – BRI

• Continuing to set up machine
• Here’s how to start under linux: jetbrains.com/help/idea/installing-and-launching
• Got Symless Synergy. Here are the hidden setup instructions

2:30 – 4:00 Research

• Picking up poster. More running around than I thought. Commonvision will not take credit or cash, only UMBC card. Had to get that charged up.

8:30 – 5:30 BRI

• Back from vacation, in a 2 -day slot before travelling up to NYC for CI 2017. Still need to get the poster printed. Contact commonvision at 10:00 for schedule and pricing
• From the UTOPIAN team: PIVE: Per-Iteration Visualization Environment for Real-time Interactions with Dimension Reduction and Clustering. One of these days, when we get back to human-in-the-loop curration and analysis, this will be really relevant.
• Teleconf with Ellen K about the issues we’ve had. My visit in early July
• Loading up the Windows side of the Alienware. Takes a while. Done!

6:00 – 7:30 Research

• Found this in my Scholar suggestions () this morning: Polarized Ukraine 2014: Opinion and Territorial Split Demonstrated with the Bounded Confidence XY Model, Parameterized by Twitter Data
• Conspiracy Thinking In The Age of Trump by Paul Musgrave
• Sending the poster off to Wayne
• Got a bunch of emails about CI and HCIC yesterday. Need to read the program for CI and finalize travel
• Slow read of the poster. Reworked the conclusions, so here’s today’s tweaks: 

A little BRI:

• Self-normalizing Neural Networks thread on Twitter that seems important?

5:30 – 7:30 Research

• Finishing up poster. The PNG export is a bit weird. The Excel chart won’t come to the foreground.. Fixed!

5:30 – 8:00 Research

• Kinda done with the first pass. I think it’s more poster like….

BRI 3:30 – 4:30

• Status update from Aaron

Research 4:30 – 9:30

• Continuing along the flocking line of thought, I’m wondering how similar a stampede is to a runaway echo chamber. In both cases, they work best if the ‘shared knowledge’ is simple and clear. In a stampede, the idea is reduced to its simplest base – run! Although there may have been a reason at the beginning, at some point the group runs because it is running. Stopping will get you trampled. The only way to escape a stampede is to peel away from the edges, but that may not b possible due to environmental constraints (e.g. walls). Once started, they are hard to stop and ‘have a mind of their own’.
• Added to the lit review folder for P&C considered harmful
  • Non-representational theory: Space, Politics, Affect
  • Human Stampedes: A Systematic Review of Historical and Peer-Reviewed Sources
• Working on CI 2017 poster, making it more visual. Took a wrong turn incorporating too much new data from the HCIC poster. Cleaning and simplifying.

Research about one hour

• Broke apart the assets for the CI 2017 poster V2. What about the relationships from the P&C considered harmful outline? That’s not in the abstract…

Research (2 hours)

• I am thinking about flocking as a form of group decision making under uncertainty., kind of like the Multi-armed bandit problem parallelized. So in this context:
• Explore: Assumption of unknown information
• Flocking: Assumption of incomplete information
• Exploit: Assumption of complete information

7:00 – 8:00 Research

• Converted poster to PDF and test printed. And then noticed some things. And did it again. And then noticed some things. And did it again. And then noticed some things. And did it again. I think I’m done now. Need to send off this evening.

9:00 – 4:00 BRI

• Sprint planning

7:00 – 8:00 Research

• DeepWalk: Online Learning of Social Representations Bryan Perozzi, Steven Skiena
• Saw the class notes on my CSCW guest lecture. The points got across, which feels nice.
• Sent copies of the boaster to Wayne
• Need to get started on the revision of the CI poster. Here’s some inspiration from Nicolai Marquardt: 
• First pass: fixed DTW charts to show separate populations:

8:30 – 4:00 BRI

• The Meaning of Underscores in Python
• Tried to add research code to timesheet. No luck. Let T know.
• Tried to access new Jira and Confluence pages, They are visible thought the OpenVPN tunnel. but the login/password does not work
• Reading the Ketos User guide and annotating. Finished – sending to Aaron
• TEM meeting at 2:00
• Meeting with CCRi. Lead dev: Vivek Dhand
  • String matching, BOW, LSI competitors
  • Based on word2vec, combined with a TF-IDF scoring
    Trained on wikipedia
  • Trained on seperate training server?
  • Apps on the training server? Train one classifier for each field
• Things we did in 2016
  • StanfordNLP+jsoup tool to categorize and tag web pages for statistical analysis
  • Statistical analysis of said pages, include backlink and other meta data analysis
  • Google CSE interface, plus cleaning tools
  • Document centrality analysis tool (JavaFX! Woohoo!) (LSI, TF-IDF, PageRank, adjacency, etc calculations at interactive rates)(outputs for WEKA)
  • Use of above tool to create CSE search terms that improved craw precision by 500% (https://viztales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/extracting-better-search-terms.docx)
  • Tagged hundreds of web pages because someone had to.
  • Proposal writing
  • Group polarization modeling using flocking agent-based simulation
  • Microservices
  • Classifiers in WEKA and the WEKA api
  • Research Browser prototype
  • NMF tool for topic extraction based on UTOPIAN paper

7:00 – 8:30 Research

• Really tempted to call the HCIC poster ‘Precision and Recall Considered Harmful’. Maybe the CHIIR paper insted?
• Got a good deal of work done over the weekend. Here’s my latest abstract:
• Also made good progress on the poster. Will need to re-run the text for LMN -done: 
• Sent both mockups off to Wayne
• Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook
  • In this paper, we explore the anatomy of the information space on Facebook by characterizing on a global scale the news consumption patterns of 376 million users over a time span of 6 y (January 2010 to December 2015). We find that users tend to focus on a limited set of pages, producing a sharp community structure among news outlets. We also find that the preferences of users and news providers differ. By tracking how Facebook pages “like” each other and examining their geolocation, we find that news providers are more geographically confined than users. We devise a simple model of selective exposure that reproduces the observed connectivity patterns.

9:00 – 4:00 BRI

• Send T my schedule – done
• Clustering has been kicked under the bus. Need to respond, but also look for new work? Working on that with Aaron.
•  I’m getting a ’99’ charge number for research.
• Helping Aaron put his accounts back together
• Meeting with Chris Y, T, Aaron and me
  • How do we segment off the Aaron/Phil work
  • Figure out BRC and tell them they’re wrong? How to make this about success?
• Fixed a bug with CorpusManager where the code broke it the kept percent is 100%

7:30 – 12:00 Research

• Finished the abstract page, I think. Nope – need to extend the text a bit: 
• Starting on the Boaster part
• Read the words from the Boaster V2 into LMN, clicked search on a vector of “network model social create twitter sunstein validate ” and got this: Towards the Modeling of Behavioral Trajectories of Users in Online Social Media by Alessandro Bessi. Looking at his publications, he’s another twin.
• Looking for ‘flocking’ images. I found this work tracking users of Twitter in Manhattan. And this, too: iographica
• Graphing the history of Philosophy using DBpedia

12:30 – 4:00 BRC

• Wrote up stories for upcoming 2-week(!) sprints
• Long discussion with Bob and Aaron about SOMs

Sand Spring Bank

Ohio RV

7:00 – 8:00 Research

• Computer-mediated telepathy using NN to classify FMRI data tagged by human activity at the time (e.g. looking at an image)
  • Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen (wikipedia)
  • opnwatr.io: What if you could see what was going on in your brain or body with the detail of a high resolution camera or MRI machine in a simple wearable?  Openwater is creating a device that can enable us to see inside our brains or bodies in great detail.  With this comes the promise of new abilities to diagnose and treat disease and well beyond – communicating with thought alone.
  • More work on abstract cover. Pretty much done, though a rewording is in order. Something about fake news rather than Trump v Clinton, I think 

8:30 – 5:00 BRC

• Updated confluence page to have Ellis email and the documents he referenced
• Sprint grooming
• Thinking hard about self-organizing maps
  • Wikipedia article
  • Self-Organizing Maps with Google’s TensorFlow
  • This is a demonstration of how a self-organizing map (SOM), also known as a Kohonen network, can be used to map high-dimensional data into a two-dimensional representation. For the sake of an easy visualization ‘high-dimensional’ in this case is 3D.
  • A Self Organizing Map (SOM) Package in Python: (SOMPY)
  • Kohonen’s Self Organizing Feature Maps (tutorial)
  • Scholar search for Teuvo Kohonen’s work
  • Teuvo Kohonen’s home page at Helsinki Institute
    • Self-Organization and Associative Memory (book)
  • Has Kohonen-style SOM fallen out of favor? (cross-validated post. Interesting links and compare with t-SNE)
  • Scikit-learn developer discussion on whether to support SOMs
  • Growing Self-Organizing Maps:
    • Dynamic Self-Organizing Maps with Controlled Growth for Knowledge Discovery
    • The Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map: Exploratory Analysis of High-Dimensional Data
    • The Self-Organizing Maps: Background, Theories, Extensions and Applications
    • Topographic Mapping of Large Dissimilarity Data Sets (2010)
    • On-line relational and multiple relational SOM (2015)
  • Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM)
    • Relational generative topographic mapping (2011)