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Fwd: Recruiting participants for a study about Wikimedia data
by Aaron Shaw 28 Jun '25

28 Jun '25

Greetings CDSC! Priyanka Nanayakkara (TSB alum, current postdoc at Harvard, cc'd here) and some colleagues are conducting a study that you might be eligible to participate in regarding the use of privacy-noised data. Please see below and contact Priyanka with any questions. all the best, Aaron ---- BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE ---- We are researchers at Columbia University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, and Northeastern University. We are recruiting participants for a remote study to understand how data users engage with privacy-noised data. We are looking for participants who: 1. Are at least 18 years old 2. Have experience with quantitative data analysis 3. Are familiar with using Python and Jupyter notebooks for data analysis In this study, you will conduct data analysis tasks, answer interview questions, and share your perceptions about Wikimedia data that includes privacy protections. The session will take approximately 1 hour via a Zoom meeting, and it will be recorded. Upon completion of the interview, you will receive a $50 Amazon gift card as a thank-you for your time. If you are interested, please fill out this online eligibility survey: https://neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b3dVIHUf3ZKxaES <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b3dVI…>We will reach out if you are selected to participate via email, typically within 2 weeks. Thanks so much! Priyanka Nanayakkara, on behalf of the study team

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Prediction Powered Inference Discussion
by Nathan TeBlunthuis 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Greetings, A number of us will meet next Thursday 10/26 from 10:00-11:00 Central / 8:00-9:00 Pacific to discuss emerging statistical methods for correctly incorporating expensive and precise data with cheap and inaccurate data in statistical estimates. For example, an algorithmic classifier or large language model might make predictions about "content" such as text or images. "Validation data" by human annotators is often used to quantify the accuracy of these predictions; however, as long as predictions are perfectly accurate this does not prove that inaccurate predictions do not invalidate statistical conclusions. These methods use both forms of data to create more precise estimates consistent with the validation data. I think these methods open up new powerful measurement strategies and study designs. I hope you will join our discussion :) I think this discussion will partly be an orientation to this methodological literature and partly an occasion to brainstorm how we might use (or already are using) these techniques in our studies. Here are some links to relevant articles. I don't expect you to read them all deeply before our meeting. Most are very technical. Looking at these articles can help orient you to this literature and prepare you for this discussion. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2293713 This is my paper published back in 2023. I showed how to use an error modeling framework to correct the bias. If I say so myself, I think this is a pretty clear and easy to follow explanation of the problem. However, I think that the solution I proposed isn't a great fit for "black box" models such as LLMs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18577 This is the latest in the line of "Prediction Powered Inference" (PPI) papers. It's extremely technical, but I think its the most generally applicable method currently available. Unlike my paper, this approach does not require any difficult assumptions about classifier performance. I tried out the R implementation just yesterday and it is fairly usable. Here's a tutorial: https://dankluger.github.io/PTDBootTutorial/Tutorial.html https://naokiegami.com/paper/dsl_ss.pdf This "designed based supervised learning" approach also claims to be very general and to work with "black box models". It is similar in spirit to PPI, but since it involves creating intermediate predictive models is more complex. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00491241251326865. While most other studies have in mind something like using a model as an auxiliary coder in a content analysis. This paper suggests something a bit more radical by using language models as a proxy for human study participants. -- Nathan TeBlunthuis Assistant Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin https://teblunthuis.cc

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Group Feedback
by Madison Deyo 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

Hey everyone, At the global meeting yesterday, we discussed the group tasks / teams that have pretty much evaporated this last school year. We’re trying to reorganize the tasks and teams in a way that best serves the group, so please fill out this survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPPKvJMhWlS9n7efa5yhvjurRDgYwrj3b…> to help us adjust the groups for next year. We’ll discuss as a full group at the retreat in October. Let me know if you have any questions ! Best, Madison Deyo Program Coordinator Northwestern University The Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design<https://www.hci.northwestern.edu/> Community Data Science Collective<https://wiki.communitydata.science/Main_Page> --

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Summer Meeting Schedule
by Madison Deyo 28 May '25

28 May '25

Hey all, Hope you’ve been well ! Just a heads up that the plan for summer global meetings and workshops is to continue as follows: * Global meetings: Thursdays 12pm PT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET * Workshops: Fridays 11am PT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET Let me know asap if this won’t work for you. Best, Madison Deyo Program Coordinator Northwestern University The Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design<https://www.hci.northwestern.edu/> Community Data Science Collective<https://wiki.communitydata.science/Main_Page> --

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5/23 workshop: ICA presentation practice
by Haomin Lin 22 May '25

22 May '25

Greetings CDSC! For tomorrow's workshop, I plan to practice my presentation at the ICA this year. There's no need to read any materials before that, as I believe that's what most ICA attendees prepare before going to presentations. Since most presentations at ICA run for 10 minutes, I want to use the time at the workshop as follows: 1. First 10 minutes: I will run my presentation and try to end on time. 2. The next 10-20 minutes: Q&A based on my presentation. 3. The rest of the workshop: Comments on the presentation and the project. Please let me know if you have any questions! See you tomorrow! Best, Haomin

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Fwd: CFP: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack at HICSS
by Jeremy Foote 21 May '25

21 May '25

Possibly of interest. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: CFP: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack at HICSS Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 17:45:17 +0000 From: Yoram Kalman <yoramka(a)openu.ac.il><mailto:yoramka@openu.ac.il> CC: Yoram Kalman <yoram.kalman(a)gmail.com><mailto:yoram.kalman@gmail.com> You don't often get email from yoramka(a)openu.ac.il<mailto:yoramka@openu.ac.il>. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> ---- External Email: Use caution with attachments, links, or sharing data ---- Call for papers: HICSS Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA (at the Hyatt Regency Maui) Conference dates: January 6-9, 2026 Deadline to submit a full paper: June 15, 2025 Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of communication taking place on digital and social media. Communication is the making of meaning and culture among people, with growing interconnections with a world of human-machine interactions. In mediated form, communication can involve text, emoticons, audio, images, video, virtual or augmented reality, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on all forms of digital communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, as well as a wide variety of contexts for communication, such as news, politics, entertainment, education, social movements and activism, etc. Additionally, this minitrack attends to the emerging interplay of human-machine communication—as evident, for example, in recent developments of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and the tools they afford for conversation and communication. For further details about the minitrack and its aims, see https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/<https://communicationhicss.wordpress.com/> This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS. The HICSS-58 conference will be held January 6-9, 2026, at Hyatt Regency Maui, on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA. Submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. HST. To submit: https://hicss-submissions.org/ The minitrack is the successor of the Mediated Conversation minitrack, which itself was a successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack (established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999). The original minitrack was focused on the novelty of conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation in contemporary life and a much wider landscape of digital communication that has emerged in recent years, we are called upon to consider a broader field of issues. This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies and their implications; to raise new socio-technical, theoretical, methodological, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Communication dynamics (from mass to interpersonal to other forms) that shape the development of digital media spaces and their role in public and private life - The role of artificial intelligence in communication, including in areas such as mediated conversation, news, and social media - Ethics of communication, digital conversation, and media technologies: e.g., privacy, safety, deception, freedom of speech, security, and information warfare - Human-machine communication and related forms of conversation (e.g., chatbots) - The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media producers and media audiences - The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications) - Methods for analyzing communication, mediated conversation, and media technologies: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc. - Innovation in the intersections of communication, mediated conversation, and media technologies - The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., hate speech, bullying, information overload - Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of communication, digital conversation, and media technologies (e.g., in education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen participation, management, and news media) - Studies of virtual communities and the discourses in digital spaces - Novel properties of platforms as they relate to communication/conversation dynamics - Power dynamics and conversational patterns among social media users - The role of communication, conversation, and media technologies in knowledge management and organizations - Conversation visualizations and analytics - The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack co-chairs: Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact) University of Oregon sclewis(a)uoregon.edu<mailto:sclewis@uoregon.edu> Gina M. Masullo The University of Texas at Austin Gina.Masullo(a)austin.utexas.edu<mailto:Gina.Masullo@austin.utexas.edu> Yoram M. Kalman The Open University of Israel yoramka(a)openu.ac.il<mailto:yoramka@openu.ac.il>

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Wiki workshop
by Nathan TeBlunthuis 20 May '25

20 May '25

FYI this virtual event tomorrow and Thursday is a good place to learn about Wikipedia research. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025 -- Nate

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CDSC New Student Orientation Fall 2025
by Madison Deyo 20 May '25

20 May '25

Hi everyone, My name is Madison, and I am the program coordinator working with the CDSC out of the Northwestern lab. I just wanted to reach out and let you all know that we’re planning on having a virtual new student orientation session on Friday, September 5th. The orientation is a chance for you to meet with all the CDSC PI’s, ask any questions, and get a run down on resources and to-dos to get started with the group. Please let me know ASAP if this date won’t work for you. We’ll figure out an exact time soon, but typically we plan them around 12pm CT. Best, Madison Deyo Program Coordinator Northwestern University The Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design<https://www.hci.northwestern.edu/> Community Data Science Collective<https://wiki.communitydata.science/Main_Page> --

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Today's Workshop Materials: Kevin's Lit Review
by Kevin Ackermann 16 May '25

16 May '25

Hi, everyone - I'm working through some questions about how to analyze my data for a literature review on the commercialization of the internet. I recognize that I'm sending this out a bit late. Even if you don't have time to look at my materials, please still come and chat with us during the workshop if you can! There is much more context in the document. Please feel free to add comments or questions to the document. May 16 Workshop Materials Here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ITNUbU5AFAVazcp3033AZ1bbgxjeVQqwvRK-hGu…> Thanks + see you soooooooon. Kevin

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Fwd: Postdoc openings in collective intelligence and computational institutional science
by Aaron Shaw 12 May '25

12 May '25

postdoc opportunities with a friend of the lab! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Postdoc openings in collective intelligence and computational institutional science Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 12:54:04 -0700 From: Seth Frey <sethfrey(a)ucdavis.edu> To: Seth Frey <sethfrey(a)ucdavis.edu> Colleagues, Please feel free to share these opportunities with relevant students, colleagues, and lists. 1: Opening in computational collective behavior/cognitive science (experimental; UC Davis) 2: Opening in computational collective behavior/cognitive science (experimental; Cornell) 3: Opening in the CSS of open source governance and networks (observational; UC Davis) === Positions 1 & 2 === Two postdocs in computational collective behavior/cognitive science We are recruiting two postdocs for an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project in computational collective behavior and cognitive science. The goal of the research is to discover how collectives can be made more creative, intelligent and when they can select the rules governing their interactions. The focus of the positions is on designing and running large-scale online behavioral experiments. Strong applicants will have quantitative and computational training in behavioral, cognitive, social science, or computer/information science. We will recruit one postdoc at UC Davis and one at Cornell. The positions will remain open until filled, starting likely in August 2025, potentially sooner. Potential applicants should feel comfortable contacting Seth Frey (sethfrey(a)ucdavis.edu) and Nori Jacoby (kj338(a)cornell.edu) directly with questions about the opening, including its current status. LINKS UC Davis opening: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07059__;!!Dq0X2D… Cornell opening: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/672009/post… Social media: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bsky.app/profile/norijacoby.bsky.social… Social media: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://x.com/norijacoby/status/191704711291256… Project Summary: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_I… Please feel free to pass forward. === Position 3 === Postdoc opening in the CSS of open source governance and networks We are seeking a postdoctoral computational social scientits. This NSF-funded project is focused on the governance and organization of sustainable open source software projects. The call welcomes computationally trained social scientists or socially inflected computer/data/information scientists to work with a team including CSS, political science, policy analysis, and software engineering scholars. We have three years of data and tools for a creative, motivated, and talented scholars to play with. The position is at UC Davis with Seth Frey in Communication and Vladimir Filkov in Computer Science. This link for the position will be open in the coming weeks (keep an eye out and/or email sethfrey(a)ucdavis.edu for a ping when it's live): https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07116__;!!Dq0X2D… It will be identical to this closed posting: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06297__;!!Dq0X2D… I'm happy to answer any questions from interested and adjacent scholars. best, seth. Prof. Seth Frey, Communication, UC Davis https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://enfascination.com/research__;!!Dq0X2DkF… recently: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/k4cr__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKh… — Social dilemmas in crowd wisdom https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/j3vs__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKh… — CAD for governance https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/c76k__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKh… — How amateurs design institutions

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