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Tweets
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 1 day ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 1 day ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 2 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 3 days ago
- I believe it is presently colder in my office than it is outside. But they have screwed shut my window, so I can't check. 4 days ago
- Chatting with Ron & Jon about "interactive media" on Hangout live. (Still getting a handle on the process.) http://t.co/0V7qKRIF 6 days ago
- Seems that an old blog post of mine, "Does Mitt Romney Hate Noodles" is suddenly getting new traffic: http://t.co/ELSrWuHG 6 days ago
- More updates...
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Tag Archives: Digg
[the making of, pt. 6] Are you experienced?
This is the sixth in a series of posts about the piece of research I am doing on Digg. You can read it from the beginning if you are interested. In the last section I showed a correlation between how much of a response people got from their comments and their propensity to contribute future [...]
[the making of, pt. 5] Rat in a cage
[This is the fifth in a series of posts about a piece of research I am doing on Digg. If you like, you can start at the beginning. At this point, we have the data, and are manipulating it in various ways to try to show some relationships.] Extracting some variables One of the things [...]
[the making of, pt. 4] Basic descriptions of the sample
This is the fourth in a series of posts about a paper I am writing, breaking down the process old-school. It started here. So, in part 3, I talked about how I got the sample of the users (and waived my hands a bit about the sample of the comments). Now, I want to tell [...]
[the making of, pt. 3] Creating a sample
(This is the third in a series of posts on the making of a research article. If you haven’t already, go back and check it out from the start.) Having put together the bones of a literature review in part 2, I now need to collect some data. My initial aim was a round number: [...]
[the making of, pt. 2] Assembling the lit review
(This is the second in a series of posts on the making of a research article. If you haven’t already, go back and check it out from the start.) Overlapping sheets, not a point A common response I get back from undergrads undertaking their first literature review is that they cannot find anything. This is [...]
[the making of, pt. 1] Of sausages and research papers
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. When I get questions from students and colleagues, it is rarely relating to things I’ve found, but how I found them. How did you get that data and make sense of it? I do a poor job of explaining this, and many are unhappy when there [...]

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