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
    • July 2014
    • August 2014
    • September 2014
      • Transition from YUI to Angular
    • October 2014
      • IRB approval
    • December 2014
    • 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.
      • driverf1
    • 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
    • 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
      • GP2
      • Added ARFF output to LMT
    • September 2016
      • Started Research Browser
    • October 2016
      • Submitted Proposal
      • Proposed

Phil 10.19.16

7:00 – 3:00 ASRC

  • Fixing slides
    • Add breadcrumbs in the lower border throughout
    • Move LMN slide to bridge lit review and current work
    • Overview Lit review slide that sets section titles with codes
    • Add timeline that starts back at the initial politifact paper
  • Moving content for Vinny
  • Starting on the lazy loading for the research browser
  • Need to move the settings out of the search page to the setting page and get them
  • TensorFlow seminar
    • @martin_wicke
    • TF is tooling to manage complexity
    • TF can run any algorithm addition -> Bayes -> deep neural nets -> etc
    • Multiple chained Neural Networks (NN)
    • Data center scale systems
    • Flow graph is written in Python and then compiled
    • State is maintained in nodes
    • First build the graph, then run it.
    • TensorBoard (visualization)
    • relu
    • TensorFlow uses CUDA8, so NVidia
    • TensorFlow runs on Linux (Ubuntu), MacOS, Windows coming soon (a week or 2) that will support GPUs
    • Tensorflow installed with pip?
    • Placeholders are like variables that require data from the user or TF doesn’t work.
    • Pre trained models exist. There is a tutorial that gives quick results that is used a pre-trained model
    • Performance tracing is available by use of flags. Run times and communication times

Phil 10.18.16

6:30 – 6:00 ASRC

  • IS Distinguished Speaker Dr. Margaret Burnett
    • Information foraging theory – Peter Pirolli biologically inspired mathematical models. Predator model?
    • Ignorance leads to unwitting barriers
    • Barrier level, not system level for design
    • GenderMag The goal is problem solving, not browsing. This is another behavioral marker? Depth-first vs. breadth first vs all first
      • Personas
        • Motivations
        • Information Processing Style
        • Computer self-efficacy
        • Risk averseness (confirm/avoid???)
        • Technology learning style (tinkering vs. tinkering pausfully – behavioral cue??)
  • TensorFlow lecture at noon. Video link. Nope – tomorrow.
  • Adding some code that will hide common prefixes in documents – done
  • Extremely Fast Text Feature Extraction for Classification and Indexing
  • Machine learning meeting. We’re going to start with a deployable, scalable simple junk filter.
  • Long discussion with Aaron about priorities and search spaces.
  • Fixing slides
    • Add breadcrumbs in the lower border throughout
    • Add overview slide
    • Tie back to diversity of thought vs monolithic thought
    • Move LMN slide to bridge lit review and current work
    • Overview Lit review slide that sets section titles with codes
      • Motivations – setting the stage
    • Rework domain independence slide. Maybe we’re not proving, but disproving the negative?
    • Add timeline that starts back at the initial politifact paper

Phil 10.17.16

7:00 – 6:00 ASRC

  • More slides. Gonna have to edit…
  • Finish slides today and walkthrough
  • Extract and ingest the chapters of the proposal.
  • Presented! 31 minutes
    • Add breadcrumbs in the lower border throughout
    • Add overview slide
    • Move LMN slide to bridge lit review and current work
    • Overview Lit review slide that sets section titles with codes
      • Motivations – setting the stage
    • Rework domain independence slide. Maybe we’re not proving, but disproving the negative?
    • Add timeline that starts back at the initial politifact paper

Phil 10.13.16

Phil 7:00 – 4:00 ASRC

Phil 10.12.16

7:00 – 6:00 ASRC

  • Word Vector analysis on 18th century lit. Very interesting: http://ryanheuser.org/word-vectors-4/
  • More slides
  • Starting on switching out the combobox to a custom component. Using this tutorial
  • Components work
  • Adding tabs. It works, but the second
  • Meeting with Wayne. I should time slides for a 30 minute talk
    • Follow up with Barbara and get a room nailed down
    • Also met with Shimei – I’ll send out a note to the rest of the committee asking if there are any items that they want me to clarify in the talk from their reading of the proposal
    • Created a doodle for the walkthrough
  • More reading The Last Place on Earth. Amundson was literally raised into arctic exploration techniques. His explorer framing is different from Scott’s? We’ll find out.

Phil 10.11.16

Phil 7:00 – 5:00  ASRC

  • Heard about LoRa on the radio this morning. This might be the bike box tracker technology I’m looking for. Not sure if the networks are active at airports though.
  • More slides. Putting questions that don’t seem to fit anywhere else at the back
  • Finished first pass through motivations. Started on Lit Review and a bit of Current Work.
  • Work on Google CSE integration in the Research Browser today? Then lazy loading of the pages behind the listing.
  • Getting the search results using the ONLY_COM engine for now (TODO: Add more engines later)
  • Working on taking the items and making them data/graphics objects that can be included in a list. Going to start with a combobox to get the mechanics working right and then walk back from that.
  • Combobox list works! There is only one combobox that is assigned to the selected cell, so the list has to be repopulated on selection. Otherwise it’s all straightforward.
  • Started reading The Last Place on Earth.

Phil 10.10.16

7:00 – 4:00 ASRC

  • Started on the slides
  • Installing the Ubuntu extension on my personal laptop as per this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/enable-bash-windows-10-anniversary-update
  • Fixing the .arff string variable save for CorpusManager – fixed. The trimmed matrices just didn’t have the string Maps
  • Interview with Julia – making an offer
  • Meeting with Wayne. Nope he’s traveling. But Sy made a nice presentation and will take a good look at my slides once they’re done.
  • Need to doodle a slot for the week of the 17th.
  • Got my antarctica books. Need to do a bit of reading.
  • Walked David through my thoughts. That helped a lot!

Phil 10.7.16

8:30 – 6:30 ASRC

  • For watching the weather: http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx
  • Submit aperworrk for ACM and ICA reimbursement
  • Working on the research browser
  • Machine learning meeting
    • Confusion about the difference between our googlehacking and ML
  • Broke the arff string value part. It’s working on xlsx, so I need to chase that down.

Phil 10.6.16

8:30 – 6:30 ASRC

  • Set up Flu shot and physical!
  • This is the source for The Crowd: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/445
  • Add radio buttons for news and scholar search
    • Scholar is done
    • News is done.
    • Why does rank disappear when a term is deleted?
  • Test moby dick without query or exact terms – fixed.
  • Sprint review

Phil 10.5.16

9:00 – 5:00 ASRC

  • Slept in until 6:30 today!
  • Fixing the bibliography
    • Verify: Le Bon, G. (2009). The crowd: A study of the popular mind. Auckland, N.Z.: Floating Press.
  • Going to see what stories are waiting for me, otherwise I’ll start on Aaron’s upgrades.
  • Renamed LitReviewTest2 to LanguageModelGui.
  • Added search.
  • Pondering how to show relations between text and terms

Phil 10.4.16

6:45 – 9:15 ASRC

  • Link to Barbara
  • Proofreading and bibliography
  • Still need to number figures and tables, print to PDF and distribute.
  • Done! Going to go back and fix sentence case tomorrow.

Phil 10.3.16

7:00 – 5:00 ASRC

  • Reworking browser mockup. Rather than using the ‘Trustworthy’ ranking, I thought I’d go more functional and exploration-supporting. Clicking on the Antibubble annotation for a story would show the context for the ‘trustworthy’ context. Clicking on the Bubble annotation would show the ech0-chamber context. The criteria for ranking documents could be selected by combobox.

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  • Implications for design section
  • Aaron’s presentation
    • Managing Ambiguity in Legal Requirements
    • Ambiguity as a tool of understanding issues?
    • In law, building in ambiguity to extend law lifetime. But shut specific loopholes
    • Sounds a lot like compiler design
    • Code clusters for paragraphs
  • 4:00 Meeting with Wayne
    • Inline citations
    • APA format
    • Print to pdf and offer hard copy in the distribution.