7:00 – 8:00

• Social Media and News Sources during the 2017 UK General Election
  • Platforms like Twitter and sources like Wikipedia are important parts of the information diet for many citizens. In this data memo, we analyse Twitter data on bot activity and junk news for a week in the final stages of campaigning of the 2017 UK General Election and also present data on Wikipedia page consultations about those parties and leaders. (1) Content about the Labour Party strongly dominated Twitter traffic in this period. (2) Social media users in the UK shared five links to professional news and information for every one link to junk news. (3) Wikipedia queries have gone from being mostly about the Conservative Party and Prime Minister Theresa May to being mostly about the Labour Party and the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. (4) In comparison to the first week of the campaign period, we find that users are sharing slightly better quality news content, that automated accounts are generating more traffic about the election, and that more of the automation uses Labour-related hashtags (though may not be from the Labour Party itself). (5) In comparison to trends in other countries, we find that UK users shared better quality information than that which many US users shared during the 2016 US election, but worse quality news and information than was shared during the French 2017 election.
• Recognizing safety and liveness
  • Informally, a safety property stipulates that “bad things” do not happen during execution of a program and a liveness property stipulates that “good things” do happen (eventually) (Lamport 1977). Distinguishing between safety and liveness properties is useful because proving that a program satisfies a safety property involves an invariance argument while proving that a program satisfies a liveness property involves a well-foundedness argument. Thus, knowing whether a property is safety or liveness helps when deciding how to prove that the property holds.
    • Read about this in this month’s Communications of the ACM. I wonder if it could be applied to the types of social models I’m building and trying to trace in user data.
• Continuing C&C
  • In contrast to the consensual form, we can understand that the normalized form, which gives only a subordinate role to some members of the group, creates a certain distance, causing the group not to loom so large in the life and consciousness of individuals, so that in the end it appears strange and abstract. Immediately the participants become detached from one another, and instead of being actors become mere spectators in the discussions. [p 62]
  • Since controversy is in proportion to the participation of members, few conflicts are observed, unless it be in the ranks of the leaders. It is as if individuals tended to minimize their ‘investment’ and their attachment to the collectivity, remaining aloof from intrigues, and, so far as possible, conforming to the opinions and actions that were suggested to them. [p 62]
    • Is this what happens on forums and low-participation social systems like comments?
  • Although the one satisfies the need to participate in a more intense way, and one of which people cannot be deprived for long, the other at least provides a substitute for it. [p 62]
    • This could be another affordance of the system. Some way to grade participation and discussion as a threshold of entering?
  • There can scarcely be any doubt that, by meeting and talking together, a group’s members bring out the values predominant among them, ones to which they are attached. In some way their substance is given shape, so that what we hold in common, but is concealed, becomes manifest. [p 65]
  • …consensual participation probably has the effect of raising the level of collective involvement, whereas normative participation lowers it. One may conclude that the former polarizes the decisions leading to consensus, whereas the latter modifies them. The former causes the members of the group to converge on the pole of values already shared by them before they took part in the decision, and the latter towards the just mean. [p 65]

8:30 – 4:30 BRC

• Taking care of travel paperwork. EZpass tolls not available yet
• Got GeoMesa running after a few hiccups. Full startup process is here
• Looked at the GM integration plan
• This could be appropriate: Event Analytics for Innovation Trajectories: Understanding Inputs and Outcomes for Entrepreneurial Success
• Installed GeoMesaIngestService and GeocoderService
• Need to install RabbitMQ Server v 3.5.3 for Ubuntu as per this page
  • Done with apt-get!

6:00 – ?? Research

• Continuing C&C
  • This tension arises less from the content of the argument or the difference that exists between them than because the disagreement manifests itself through someone else who has to be faced up to [p 55]
    • So what are the implications of CMC, where the ‘distance’ can be moderated? The spectrum can run from video chat to text chat to forum, to search results. What’s the sweet, frictionless spot that creates stapedes?
  • Thus, throughout controversies and counter-arguments, which resemble body-blows, the members of the group covertly exert upon one another an influence that emphasizes what can draw them closer. Between them can be observed a synchronized, imitative process which transforms every word into a signal, every gesture into a model, and every piece of information into an argument. All the forms of the rhetoric of mind and body become maneuvers through which the distances between the participants grow smaller and the frictions between them are deadened. [p 55]
  • But most frequently, by the very fact of being called upon to discuss, each individual feels himself to be an actor in the ritual and a member of the group instituting it. In this way, group cohesion is reinforced at regular intervals. [p57]
  • Numerous studies justify the assertion that people are more disposed to start out on that painful intellectual and affective path when they have to deal with opposing arguments coming from several sources rather than from one source alone. It is as if a group speaking with several voices were more conspicuous and offered greater room for maneuver than a group with only one voice.
    • Higher dimensions == less constraint?

8:30 – 4:30 BRI

• Continuing GeoMesa with Hbase. Notes are here

7:15 – 8:15 Research

• Continuing C&C
  • For the collectivity it is imperative to overcome its consuming tendency to impose a uniformity upon individuals and encourage their inclination to follow the law of least effort and obey. It is true that by causing them to abandon their personal arguments and interests, the collectivity ensures, for its own benefit, that decisions are made easy. But this is at the price of a passivity that deprives it of the energy and active initiative of individuals. They have to struggle against themselves in order to form a living entity, and the entity has to struggle against itself in order to be made up of individuals. This is in fact the necessity noted by Pascal in his time: ‘The multitude that is not reduced to a unity is confusion; the unity that does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny.’ [p 50]
  • Depth psychology
  • How and why this occurs emerges from a fine study by Freedman and Fraser (1966), the American psychologists, which deals with a familiar situation. We see volunteers going from door to door to get householders to sign a petition whose purpose was ‘to preserve the beauty of California’. Naturally, almost everyone signed it, since the beauty of the countryside, like child health or world peace, is a theme that strikes a chord. A fortnight later, these same people were asked to put up a board on their lawn: ‘Drive carefully’. Almost half agreed to do so, whereas the figure would have been much lower if they had not signed the petition. In fact, they had made the first step and then took part in an action. The participants deemed themselves infused with civic spirit, and loyal to their principles [p 52]
    • I think this is a way to reduce dimensions and as such reduce distance to make it easier to follow.
  • I’m wondering if there is some kind of sentiment analysis that can tell how much mutual support is going on in a community, and if it’s reactionary or progressive. This would be in addition to the amplitude and variance measures for beliefs in the community.
  • Hbase needs to connect to port 9000. Add this to hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml

    <configuration>
     <property>
     <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>
     <value>true</value>
     </property>
     <property>
     <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
     <value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value>
     </property>
    </configuration>

7:00 – 8:00 Research

• Working on catching up with Aaron and Wayne
• More C&C. Tried to get things done yesterday, but… Yeah…
  • This does not warrant classing the group with the crowd, which is prey to over-enthusiasm and violence [p40]
  • If we wish to understand the nature of groups, it seems advisable to concentrate on the way they change , and in the way that they change individuals, rather than on their ability to aggregate individuals as part of a whole [p42]
  • …the danger lies less in anomie or disorder than in routine and apathy [p 42]
  • Acts of decision, as well as acts of consenting, are above all acts of participation. For various reasons their value springs from the bond that they create between individuals and from the impression each one receives that he counts in the eyes of everybody as soon as he begins to participate. [p47]
  • Consequently much effort is expended to become a member of an association, to be elected to a committee, to have the right to meet together and communicate with certain people, and so on.
    • But what if that effort becomes low or frictionless as we find online? And what about being an anonymous part of a group?

8:30 – 4:30 BRI

• Installing Hadoop
• Need to get a hotel near CCRi for Thursday night -done
• Got my Hadoop running by deleting my log files. Yes, that makes no sense.
• Starting on the geomesa-quickstart-hbase. More notes here

6:45 – 7:45 Research

• Continuing to read Conflict and Consensus
  • Thus they bring us closer to a different conception of the role of the group. This is, that it mobilizes the intellectual and affective potentialities of each one of its members by making them participate in a collective action, not in order to increase cohesion, but to allow them to breach together the barrier of norms from which, if faced alone, they would recoil. (Page 41): 
• Continuing to work on P&R Considered Harmful
• Discovered Kurt Lewin and his papers (and Principles of Topological Psychology). Downloaded Forces Behind Food Habits and Methods of Change – The Problem of Changing Food Habits and Group Decision and Social Change.
  • This indicates that in case of an external request the wish to succeed or not to succeed depends largely upon whether or not the personal likes happen to be in line with the request. A group decision, on the other hand, seems to establish a sufficiently strong group goal to be accepted by the members in a way which overrules to a considerable degree personal taste.The motivation induced by group decision is higher than that of the request groups in spite of the fact that, in our sample, the preference for whole wheat is greater in the latter (average of 3.7 as compared with 2.9 on a 4-point scale).
• I found the second paper in a repo maintained by Jared Curhan at MIT
  • Curhan specializes in the psychology of negotiation and conflict resolution. A recipient of support from the National Science Foundation, he has pioneered a social psychological approach to the study of “subjective value” in negotiation—that is, the feelings and judgments concerning the instrumental outcome, the process, the self, and the relationship. His research uses the Subjective Value Inventory (SVI; Curhan et al., 2006) to examine the precursors, processes, and long-term consequences of subjective value in negotiation. He also studies the dynamics of negotiation and brainstorming.

9:00 – BRI

• Starting to keep track of GeoMesa setup here
• Installing RocketChat. Need a host
• Helped Aaron with the Google CSE writeup for Gregg

8:30 – 4:30 BRI

• Submitted expenses
• Working on clustering reports / Hyper with Aaron?
• Lurked in the sprint review
• Working on a full dataframe compare. Stopped. Maybe later?
  • Find the intersection of rows (record percent difference)
  • Find the intersection of columns (record percent difference0
  • create the intersection dataframe with zeros
  • iterate over the two source DFs and place the similarity (min(a,b)/max(a,b), where max != zero)
• Sprint review
• Moving over to the CCRi team? Working on CCRi’s GeoMesa with Gerard?
  • Hilbert Space-Filling Curves
  • Watched an overall presentation from FOSS.
• Stability comparison of dimensionality reduction techniques attending to data and parameter variations
• BRI sprint planning

Research

• Travel from HCIC 2017
• Continued to read Conflict and Consensus
• Continued to work on P&R Considered Harmful

HCIC 2017

• Thought for the day – board games to explain paper production (Journal and conference) and proposal writing
  • John Walton (Board games, etc) Elizabeth Swenson (Application Crunch)
    • Joe Dumit – Science studies Fracking simulation board games
• John Tang, Gina Venolia and Kori Inkpen, Microsoft
  • Breaking the Future of Social Media
  • Discussant: Dan Russell
  • Multi stream clusters – how do we view? (Scoop)
  • Interactions among the streamers and between the streamers and the viewers. Also, how does the design scale? Twitch doesn’t scale, BTW – you can’t keep up
  • Likes as a percentage of viewers upvoting affects who sees what Paper at CHI
  • Can be hard to stream under particular circumstances. High crowds, degrated conditions, etc. Leads to short viewing due to frustration
  • SXSW covered with multiple parallel streams
    • Note – stabilized shoulder mount for a streamer with extra batteries? Better mic? Camera?
  • If there is a crash, the preview allows an overview and lets people continue an interrupted stream.
  • Many short glances, most of the time is in long watches/views. Browse/browse/browse/stay
  • Interaction engagement – all deliberate. Lurking is the absence of action, but there is a surprisingly low percentage of that.
  • Sweet spot is high flexibility environments like trade shows, where the remote audience can interact.
  • How do you get effects at at sale with a prototype
    • Recruit crowds from Turk – reflects incentives. Can test usability and engagement at a higher level of interaction, which exercises the platform more
    • Corporate Volunteers – viewed by interest. very linear. More interested in the talks, rather than the wandering.
    • Unknown – power law. many short, few long (and much higher lurking)
  • Breaking existing commercial boundaries to enable the future
    • Many semi-overlapping ecosystems. How to standardize? Standards didn’t work. incentivised to lock-in
    • Maybe a standard for subsets of data to support a commons? Universities may be a good place to take the lead on this?
    • How to unify?
• Dan Russell discussant
  • We already have a lot of streaming cameras
  • 911 Truthers based on self-selected partial information.
  • Can’t reverse engineer context
  • Reverse effects cause and effect can get confused
  • Google moderator wound up requiring an intermediary to select the questions
  • Only studies with real money matter
  • Is the MCR mechanism of handling multiple feeds the way to handle social media? Possible for ABC to buy feeds from Fox?
• Questions
  • Sharing PII is also a problem. Not only costs but risks
  • Is the value in the liveness, or in the history? Attention value is value.
  • Value is transparency? Authenticness? David Brin, the transparent society Trustworthiness of the messenger, rather than the anonymous streamer?
  • Social information proximity vs IR gatekeeping?
  • We’re having trouble differentiating between perspectives? There are different small groups that don’t relate to a giant company. A small group may be important.
  • Events of civic interest vs. novel and entertaining live streams
  • Gare Steinberg’s incredible sad true love story
  • There is a difference between a trained, effective producer? What about predators choosing prey from a flock? What does an effective liver performer do?
  • Becoming a temporary media company that produces a curated stream. An improvisational theatre company
  • Tweak the Tweet Palen & Starbird
  • It is very interesting to watch representatives of Google and MSFT discuss research as startups, where acquisition is the large scale corporate research model.
• Short talk and working session: Charlotte Lee 
  • HCDE Comics – Reflecting on Living in the Present and Designing for the Future
  • Philip Agre – Critical Technical Practice
  • Check out the memex as inspiration for the Research Browser
  • You can draw in pencil all day long at a coffee shop, but when you start inking people will stop and notice.
• See if ASRC could support HCIC. What’s he cost/value proposition. What does it mean to be part of the consortium?
• Reworking Design as Critical Fabulations – Daniela Rosner
  • Building core memory as quilts
  • Core rope memory
  • “Valorization of individuals has to recede” in collaborative processes.
  • To believe what is physically impossible might be possible in a different way
• Discussant – Stacy
  • It’s a book chapter! In what book?
  • Design shift from individualism (includes small teams) to collective
  • Situated, and contextual
  • Not having a solution and moving on, but creating a process.
  • Who gets to tell the stories
  • There is a reviewer 2 meme. I did not know that.
  • Interviews are fabulating?
  • Grounded theory is a way of academically acknowledging and defining path dependency.
  • corememoryshield.com/report.html
  • Creating different physical instantiations that provide different audiences.
  • Inquire into your method’s history. What are the ways of knowing, and Who is knowing?
  • Who are the actual people doing the tasks, and what are the behind-the scenes work to create the product (Read papers by Lilly Irani. Such command of the language!)
  • Identifying devalued labor. How. And what does it mean to track and understand than that. There is a difference between the dialogic practice of group work and the business model of an industry that maximises profit through celebrity creation.
  • There is a difference between a performer and a creator of the source material for that performance.
• Michael Muller and Q. Vera Liao, IBM
  • Exploring AI Ethics and Values through Participatory Design Fictions
  • The developers of robots believe that they represent the user. THis may be true in that there are no customers yet. Except for LAWS systems?
  • Value Sensitive Design (chlorine water treatment and chlorine gas)
    • Theoretical
    • Contextual
    • Ethnographic
  • We do not have an agreed-upon list of values.
  • Value sensitive inquiry instead? Descriptive ethics. Not at normative ethics yet
  • How do you speak your values about something that you don’t yet have?
  • Using design fictions
  • Problems with current popular fictions (Books – personal view, and media – complex interweavings of corporate interests)
  • Ponder a spectrum from utopia to dystopia and timeframes
  • Exercise that was confusing and too fast. But generally on story completion
  • Slideshare.net slides
• Discussant: Kristin Eschenfelder
  • Would you kill the fat robot?
  • An echo chamber (like Nazi-ism) might be indicated by the alignment of philosophies around a desired outcome. Because there is no external validity?
  • Moral Machine MIT Media Lab
  • There is a difference in commercial ethics and philosophical ethics.

HCIC 2017

• What if Robots designed your next homes (Maya  Cakmak)
  • PR2 robot
  • Homes are designed for people, home tasks are performed for people
  • Are homes of the rich different from the homes of the lower classes?
  • Affordances for robots. Actually means that the home is becoming part of the robot. Like an automated factory. Structure that is needed for robots
  • Hotels and warehouses are intermediate, semi-structured environments that afford robots better
  • What about home gantry robots? With it’s own storage for non=-human tools?
• Technology- centered design – Amanda Lazar
  • Solutionism – Solves problems before they exist
  • The MAYA principle – Most Advanced yet Acceptable
  • What happens when the technology is explicitly at the center of the design process? Making this explicit opens up some opportunities. Variant of the flying shiny logos problem (Overton window)
  • How things affect you, your family, and people you know in that order
• Daniel Russel. Unintended consequences. Ramps are one thing, people and cats and dogs are another
• Lana – what about the schedule of change. Like wiring up houses for networks and then wifi comes along
• National Robotics Initiative
• Should robots be designed around current accessibility standards. THen robots can grow out of their disabilities over time?
• Are we too tied to practices now? Washing machines lead to clothing that survive the washing machines. Ecosystems. What are all the dependencies that need to simultaneously shift?
• What about friction? And how we deal with slaves?
• Futures Beyond Design Panel (Brent Hecht, Lilly Irani, Silvia Lindtner, Scott Mainwaring)
  • Brent – Design as an optimization process
    • But externalities! How do we internalize these ideas so that unintended consequences are minimized
    • The great decoupling – computers displace workers
    • Importance of data sets (google’s powers of search are heavily dependent on Wikipedia user sourced data
    • Designing technologies for a world where data creators are compensated in a meaningful way
      • It would be neat if the research browser could do this. Maybe show a ticker that shows a ticker with ‘you would have made $xx’
  • Scott
    • How technological infrastructures are produced?
    • Three-ring-binder project in Maine. Fiber to rural areas. But how does this affect the users? Who are the users and how do we know them? Many misconceptions. Culture can change rapidly but what’s the difference between minority rights, women’s rights and LGBT rights?
  • Sylvia Lindtner
    • Making Cruel Machine Dreams
    • The maker movement (Is this human value add?) References Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody
    • The means of production need to be placed back in the hands of the proletariat?
    • Precarious work as opposed to techno utopianism? Who profits? The 3D printer manufacturers
    • Shenzhen is really a policy experiment. Which concentrated the means of production
  • Lilly
    • When impact requires more than design. The case for crowds.
    • Turkopticon – Turkers reviewing employers in the system.
    • Turker organization – Turker Nation, CloudMeBaby, etc
    • Dynamo: Safe space for turk worker activism (forum with upvoting) – but for precarious labor in general
    • Need to support the understanding of labor laws and have a legal understanding
    • Platform Cooperativism
  • John Zimmerman – Carnage Mellon
    • Won’t the ‘computers will take our jobs’ problem fix itself?
    • Shouldn’t stop us from thinking about how to minimize disruption and pain
    • Lilly – Culture matters in how these technologies are integrated
  • What is an example of a project that embodies these ides
    • Sylvia – civilla
    • Scott – HatchTheFuture.org Facebook’s communities of action??
    • Brent – Machine Learning can be tuned to populations so that it does not have disparate impacts. A chrome plugin that supports selective boycotts.
    • Lilly. Platform Cooperativism. Stockse is a photo collective made by ex Getty people. But what does participatory management look like when there are 10,000 members?
  • How do we do this? How do we engage as academics?
    • Lilly: Who represents the crowdsourcing workers?
    • Brent: Personas vs. Sociatals?
    • How to communicate complex political and social ideas in a easily consumed way

HCIC 2017

• Carl DiSalvo – Alternate Histories of Design Futures
  • What else might design be – different interpretations of the world
  • Speculation (Speculative Design?)
  • Design as critique to critiquing design
  • Designers domesticate technologies
  • Speculative design is to trigger thoughts, not to become a product per-se. THis is about nudging in a direction. It’s more like art harnessed to thinking about interaction
  • Fantastic futures, extraordinary objects intended to be provocative
  • Archigram 
  • Global Tools.
  • 21st Century Speculative Design MOMA curates and legitimates Speculative Design
  • Design and Violence
  • Core77
  • From representation to events
  • Vernacular Futures -> cheap futures. Cheap stuff that we buy. Fidget spinners???
  • Speculative Enactments (SIGCHI paper)
  • prefiguration
  • Mundane work of performing on the world (Signage)
  • Implications for design
    • How can computation become integral to our design and experiences (Bill Gaver – Your Data Catcher)
    • Turkopticon
• Katherine Isbister – Reflections on Carl’s presentation
  • Interdependent wearables
  • Magic circle of play (new games movement, whole earth catalog, etc)
  • Global Game Jam
  • Feynman diagrams spreading through interpersonal transmission. In other words, they do not get used unless someone shows you. The difference from personal contact vs reading.
• Legitimate peripheral participation
• Brave New Alps
• Prefiguration in Contemporary Activism
• Analog game movement – write rulesets that reflect the vision of the architect. No, that didn’t work. Then creating the experience locally. Now a co-creation process that’s half product/half event? Practice being transmitted through objects. De-centering the designer, recentering the practice.
  • Douglas Wilson (Folk Games) No Autour.
• Repair maintenance vs event. Events become objectified and bounded. It can be treated as a product.
• Star Trek & CMC (Lana Yarosh)
  • Technology constraints and technologies
• Discussion as speculative fiction Wendy Kellogg – Microsoft Research
  • Apologetics
  • Research through design
  • Artifacts embody myriad choices that can’t be captured in a written document
  • Generalizing through juxtaposition? Dourish 2014 – LSI is a theory of meaning

7:00 – 8:00 Research

• Thinking that I need address Starbird’s idea of false triangulation in the context of belief space. I think there is something akin to a strange attractor for certain topics, particularly around fear and authoritarianism.
• Found some good stuff on path dependency breaking, particularly this dissertation, which includes a simulator: Path dependence in two-sided markets
• Ebook manager for handling things like pdfs? Caliber

8:30 – 4:00 Research

• Got the last run. What a mess:  what’s going on? Need to look more in depth at the source data. That’s going to require more code, so I’m going to write the report on what I’ve got now.
• Writing report. Done.

Research 6:45 – 7:45

• Thinking that the emergent agent properties might map to political theories. This is the best overview I’ve found: Political Theory/Ideologies of Government
• From Mindless Masses to Small Groups: Conceptualizing Collective Behavior in Crowd Modeling
• Self-organizing pedestrian movement
• Continuing writing. Getting close to a full outline

BRI 8:30 – 3:30

• Working on reading in files, then running permutations on cluster membership
• Because I can never remember how ass-backwards pandas.Dataframes are:

  def initDictSeries(rows = 3, cols = 5, offset=1, prefix ="doc_"):
      dict = {}
      row_names = []
      for j in range(cols):
          row_names.append("row_{0}".format(j))
      for i in range(rows):
          name = prefix+'{0}'.format(i)
          array = []
          for j in range(cols):
              array.append ((i+offset)*10 + j)
          #dict[name] = tf.Variable(np.random.rand(cols), tf.float32)
          dict[name] = array
      return pd.DataFrame(dict, index=row_names)
  
  df = initDictSeries()
  print("df = \n{0}".format(df))
  s = df.loc['row_1']
  print("\ns = df.loc['row_1'] = \n{0}".format(s))
  s['doc_1'] = 99
  print("modified = \n{0}".format(df))

• Yay! It looks like it’s working. Next step is to run it. Done. This is the compare of the two runs on the older data as it sits on the servers: 
• Here’s the same runs locally, using t-sne. This is more like what I was expecting to see: 
• Here’s the old vs. new (Left this cooking. These charts take forever to calculate) 

6:45 – 7:45

• Got the travel info from HCIC. Looks like they got tickets just for the conference, and I don’t have the energy to try to get that fixed. I’ll just bring my running shoes.
• Multiple movement modes by large herbivores at multiple spatiotemporal scales
  • Interestingly, the rate of movement by individuals depended strongly on the amount of time they spent in groups, with highly gregarious individuals being much more sedentary than more solitary individuals (19). Far-roaming, solitary individuals had a higher risk of mortality than did more sedentary, gregarious individuals (19). Hence, sociality triggered changes in movement modes that had important demographic consequences.
• Socially informed random walks: incorporating group dynamics into models of population spread and growth (Ref 19 from above)
• Behavioral Change Point Analysis
  • in Python (and a bridge to [R])
  • Change-Point Analysis: A Powerful New Tool For Detecting Changes
    • Change-point analysis is a powerful new tool for determining whether a change has taken place. It is capable of detecting subtle changes missed by control charts. Further, it better characterizes the changes detected by providing confidence levels and confidence intervals. When collecting online data, a change-point analysis is not a replacement for control charting. But, because a change-point analysis can provide further information, the two methods can be used in a complementary fashion. When analyzing historical data, especially when dealing with large data sets, change-point analysis is preferable to control charting. A change-point analysis is more powerful, better characterizes the changes, controls the overall error rate, is robust to outliers, is more flexible and is simpler to use. This article describes how to perform a change-point analysis and demonstrates its capabilities through a number of examples.
• The Similarity Metric
  • We propose a new “normalized information distance”, based on the noncomputable notion of Kolmogorov complexity, and show that it is in this class and it minorizes every computable distance in the class (that is, it is universal in that it discovers all computable similarities). We demonstrate that it is a metric and call it the similarity metric. This theory forms the foundation for a new practical tool.

9:00 – 5:00 BRI

• Got FoxyProxy working and downloaded the data. The clustering seems non-optimal. Rerunning locally to see what’s going on
• Need to write an adaptor to build a common excel files from subsequent clustering runs
• Need to get the previous run. Got the input and output files for both. They are the same length, which is odd. Pinging Heath. These are both older data, clustered differently. What I’ve pulled is the newest data.
• Meeting on remote dev environments. Lots of security discussions. My main concerns are on usability WRT bandwidth and network quality.
• Dug up the CSE billing info and updated the credit cards
• Adding method in membership_history_builder.py that will organize multiple cluster files into a single dataframe.
  • Built the set containing the common elements
  • Need to build  Dataframe of the correct dimensions and populate it
  • Need to run the membership code over that and plot the results

7:00 – 8:00 Research

• Starting to outline the next paper (Precision and Recall Considered Harmful?)
• Replied to Ece K. and David B.
• Work Features to Support Stigmergic Coordination in Distributed Teams

8:30 – 4:30 BRI

• Didn’t think to download the NVIDIA libs while at home, so doing that now
• Tensorflow now requires 64 bit Python and I had 32 bit. Reinstalling
  • Using these directions
  • And downloading all the prebuilt whl files…
  • And don’t install the 6.0 CUDA DNN! Use 5.1!!! (DLL not found errors)
  • GPU version installed!
• Setting up access to the AWS instance. Connecting!
• Having trouble with Firefox… Rebooted
• Installed the FoxyProxy plugin but am unable to get it to read new config file. Asked Matt for assistance. He’s going to send me his config file.

7:00 – 8:00 Research

• Nice trip back from the conference. I think my take home messages are:
  • What I’m working on is non-obvious
  • Agent-based simulation is becoming a norm in this field
  • Creating a useful knowledge map makes sense to everyone(?) working in the field
  • The concept of explore, flock, and stampede have good resonance
  • Gate-keeping in agent design/distribution and information retrieval are SERIOUS problems
• Brought in the code that I wrote on the laptop. Compiles and runs nicely
• Creating a poster (24×36) version of the PosterPage. Also creating a dual-sided handout. Done, and sent out for printing.
• Ordered a poster tube with strap

8:30 – 3:30 BRC

• Expense Report. Done. Maybe? The app doesn’t take street address without barfing. May have to go back in and re-edit? Or is that only for mileage?
• Continue to work on setting up Linux Python/Tensorflow env
• Got IntelliJ up, but had to point at the ‘Development’ files for windows due to the crippling download rates.
• Apparently we have new data on CI. Recluster?
• Then I let Windows update and everything stopped. Went home to continue
• Installing python
• Installing Java
• Installing xampp

Misc

• Register van – done!