Post coming soon. Inspired by Dr. Amy J Ko and her work: https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/studying-programming-language-learning-a-3-year-recap-bda469e5be04
The 4th Workshop on Affective Content Analysis @ AAAI 2021
We made a cool poster so of course, that deserves a new blogpost š Collaborative creativity. If I wasn't organizing the workshop, I'd love to explore the CL-Aff Diplomacy dataset and try out some ideas. But you don't have to worry about organizing it. So why don't you sign up! Full CFP is somewhere here:... Continue Reading →
The CLAff Diplomacy dataset
This was one of most interesting and challenging datasets I explored. The original dataset was collected by a brilliant team of researchers over at CMU. If you want to see how awesome they are, check out their video describing the data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVAAhIUtf9U&ab_channel=JordanBoyd-Graber Here's the description provided by Jordan Boyd-Graber: Machine learning techniques to detect deception... Continue Reading →
Auditing the presence of local news outlets on Google News
This paper is out! Data collection was intense... four laptops/PCs connected to VPN, nearly three hundred thousand queries, and millions of search results. And, after Sean's expert dplyr munging, we have a Nature Human Behavior paper. Worth it, I say! š Data collection! Picture taken in April of 2019 The paper is at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00954-0 Fischer,... Continue Reading →
Social media, disclosure and well-being in COVID-19
My recommended reading for students looking to explore disclosure on social media and its relationship with well-being. Created this for a student today, but could be helpful for others. Image from The Washington Post Iād say read the first item under each heading, and go to the second one only if it further interests you.... Continue Reading →
How to edit Wikipedia
I was helping a friend of mine figure out how Wikipedia works, and I made this self-learning tutorial. It compares stuff you can do with the source editing and the visual editing mode, and when you'd want to prefer the former over the latter (usually when you want to reuse one of the popular templates,... Continue Reading →
The language of regional well-being
Jaidka, K., Giorgi, S., Schwartz, H. A., Kern, M. L., Ungar, L. H., & Eichstaedt, J. C. (2020). Estimating geographic subjective well-being from twitter: a comparison of dictionary and data-driven language methods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the COVID-19 era that we are living in today, social media posts can help us... Continue Reading →
How to run a Workshop and a Shared Task at a major Computer Science conference
Wrote this to help a friend, realized I'll need to refer to it later, so I'm putting it here. Picture sourced from the web, but yes that would be a good way to work backwards from the D-Day. Hello worried and anxious colleagues! Is this the first time you're contemplating something so exciting? Worry not,... Continue Reading →
The #StayHomeforSG dashboard launch
Social media in COVID-19: building resilience or sowing stress? When the circuit-breaker came into effect in April 2020, Singaporeans suspended their daily lives to check the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Social media and computer-mediated-communication became the lifeline for communication as well as breaking news. However, social media was considered by many to be a... Continue Reading →
The SMOL Project
Image credits: Swati Vats for the SMOL project. Every story has a beginning. This post is the beginning of the SMOL Project. The Social Media, Online behavior and Language project focuses on online human behavior and computer mediated communication. One day, we'll have our own spiders, bots, crawlers, apps, and python (scripts). SMOL is also... Continue Reading →
