Recently, Nate Matias mentioned looking to automate the creation of his CV, which I already do. Since he asked, I figured I’d pull together a simple guide for how I manage this, and go from there.

Why Do This?

Before jumping into how, I thought it maybe made sense …

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In his post earlier this week, Daniel Kluver outlined the “Jello Research Challenge”, based on a conversation we had.

The rules as outlined are:

1. You must re-tell the basic narrative arc (the …

There’s an article going around today reporting that the news curation team at Facebook (the team that chooses what shows as Trending) would either “inject” stories into the platform, or de-value/blacklist stories (in some cases with a conservative bent).

The article states

In other words, Facebook’s news …

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Michael Ekstrand recently wrote up his reasons for sticking to using R for data analysis, which included computational efficiency, ggplot2, and comfort with the workflow.

I don’t have any problem with …

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Big Week? Big Week.

It’s been a pretty crazy, very exciting week here at GroupLens.

Best part? EZRA KLEIN TWEETED ABOUT IT.

There’s a new blog post for an ICWSM 2016 study (that I contributed to!) on Emoji and miscommunication, over on the GroupLens blog.

It’s worth a read.

In case you haven’t gotten it yet, you can find the blog post at http://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-miscommunication-using-emoji/.

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Ezra Klein (formerly of Wonkblog, now Editor-in-Chief at Vox) has a relatively new podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, wherein he interviews interesting people, from across the political and policy spectrum. One of …

I recently attended the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing conference, in San Francisco. There were a number of very interesting pieces of work, that I wanted to list and point to. I think it’s useful to think about take-aways after the incredibly dense information overload that is a …

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You know, I’ve really started to come around on python.

What this actually means, in this case, is that I’ve completely moved away from nanoc, and now my site is …

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I’m cheating a little bit, and committing to two things, but not writing either of them now.

1. I will write-up a summary of my favorite papers at the recent CSCSW 2016 …

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OS X 10.12 is rumored to have Siri integrated in. That’s exciting to me.

The natural language piece of Siri is phenomenal, and it’s something I’ve been wanting …

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I do a fair amount of spatial data analysis, particularly in the space of trying to understand geographic disparity, and its effects on systems.

This workflow used to go something like:

1. Setup …

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Well, I’ve continued to not write. That’s a failing. I’ve been trying to do other things, because there is never enough time in the day.

That’s not justification …

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Aaron Halfaker just (like, you know, today) posted some of his thoughts and early work based on a conversation we had about disparate impact in Wikipedia, both in terms of actual effect …

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One of the things that seems to be necessary (if not sufficient) for success in academia is how consistent and efficient people can be with their clarity of thought, rather than the …

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I’ve been thinking about systemic accountability recently: how can we hold systems accountable to a set of expectations?

In Ecology, the ecological systems (or, you know, ecosystems, I guess) they study …

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From Ben Collins:

Every day now, Chris wakes up to find strangers’ hate on his Facebook wall that he has to personally delete. Or he’ll Google Alison to find the people …

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Recently, I’ve been bouncing between a few different projects:

1. Writing
2. Designing an Experiment
3. Deep-dive on Spatial Statistics

The thing that ties all of these together, from a day-to-day perspective is that …

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Labor movements, over time (at least in the United States), have had success because of collective action; many voices acting as one unified front. Often, this starts as an organizational process by …

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It’s been a while since I’ve written here.

Hopefully, at least for a period of time, posting will be a lot more frequent.

A few of us in GroupLens have …

I, and I think many graduate students, have feelings of inadequacy, or feel that I’m the wrong person to be doing what I’m doing. It’s not constant, but it is relatively common, in a post hoc ergo propter hoc way.

However, I recently received a PhD Review …

I’m starting to write this ~2 hours and 45 minutes after the decision not to indict Darren Wilson (the police office who killed 18-year-old Mike Brown, a black man) was handed down by the Grand Jury in this case. As such, my thoughts on this are very defined by …

Update: According to the article danah boyd sent out, Twitter says:

We select each tweet using a variety of signals, including how popular it is and how people in your network are interacting with it.

As Jeff Nichols (@jwnichls on Twitter) pointed out, this can be a positive thing, and …

This is the first, welcome post on the blog here. I hope to write fairly regularly. I'll likely post thoughts on current events related to CS/HCI broadly, or topics that interest me related to social change movements and efforts, and the (potential) role that technology plays. Additionally, I'll summary …