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Personal Statement: In Full
The “Personal Statement” for the graduate school application, is the attempt to explain how you will make a difference, not just in your research, but in making the University as a organism more...
View ArticleWikidata and the Measure of Nationality: The Germanic Shift
Best viewed in the IPython notebook viewer. Updated on December 29 2014 to include an explanation by Arnas Lucasen.
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Preliminary Results From WIGI, The Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index
This is a preliminary list of results from a research project is being compiled into full paper on the subject. The full paper, in it’s academic form is now available on arxiv. Introduction WIGI is the...
View ArticleAm I Doing My PhD In The Open?
Yesterday I clicked on a JSTOR link, and a full text PDF popped up – it wasn’t an Aaron Schwarz liberation plan. I was in the academy reading closed access research. I’m in the academy, and I’m on the...
View ArticleDear NSF: Part 1
In what will surely not be the last time I ask the U.S. government for money, I made the plea to be a fellow of theirs today. The Nation Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program...
View ArticleData Management: The Plan
Perhaps because it’s not something I would have done on my own, thanks to the prodding of Daniel Mietchen, I have created a data management plan for my open-PhD adventure. What is a data management...
View ArticleDifferently Shaped Virtual Paper
The very first time I heard it I was immediately convinced by Killer Mike’s un-festschrift “Reagan”. It’s a lucid, orchestrated, and damning exposé of what Reagan’s legacy has meant for less privileged...
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Against the Grain: Influencing Factors of Opinion Change in Wikipedia’s...
This is my final project from my Machine Learning course this past semester. My collaborators and I attempted to find out when, and why users at English Wikipedia’s article for deletion forum, voted...
View ArticleDesign for Doulas
I have typically avoided the realm of UI design, as I view as fraught with of cults of personalities and nonstop bikeshedding, but this semester I decided to try my hand and find seperate the theory...
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House Rules
Click to read full paper. “I was on holiday, and I saw the same people advertising their room on Couchsurfing and Airbnb.” Two years ago my friend and co-author Benjamin Mako Hill pitched to me...
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