Really enjoyed my time at #ccsconf - many thanks to the organisers for their hard work. And if you want to share some of the ideas from this week’s discussions, think about submitting a paper or panel to #AoIR2018 in Montréal, perhaps ? Deadline 1 March:
Nice to see a shout-out from @noshir for abductive reasoning. Very valuable for open-ended work with large datasets. #ccsconf
Hmm, interesting: from big data to broad data, i.e. a combination of multiple big data sources. #ccsconf
One way to think about ‘big data’ is as digital exhaust data, @noshir says - often very dirty and noisy. Yes, but who decides what’s signal and what’s noise ? Let’s not repeat that awful Pear Analytics report from 2009 that called 40% of Twitter ‘meaningless chatter’. #ccsconf
Some really good questions - with no easy answers - from @JanSchmidt here. Simpsons content bonus. #ccsconf
Thanks to @JanSchmidt for pointing to the long-term effort of @AoIR_org to develop Internet research ethics guidelines. Details at , and the latest round of work on this is just getting started again - so please join us ! #ccsconf
One of the panellists suggests a national data access licence for communication data, requiring platforms to provide data for research in exchange for a fee paid by a national body. Great idea, but how to make it happen (across multiple nations) ? #ccsconf
This is becoming a bit of a ‘ask @MaxGrafenstein about data laws’ session. Not that that’s a bad thing. #ccsconf
I don’t know that “more legal” / “less illegal” is actually a concept in the justice system, just quietly. #ccsconf
“So how illegal is it just to scrape data ?” Getting to the big questions quickly. #ccsconf
Quite a bit of cross-disciplinary envy from media and communication for the field-wide open data repositories they have in the earth sciences and elsewhere. But of course our data are often individually identifiable, and so much more difficult to share publicly... #ccsconf
And we’re almost ready to get started with the Computational Communication Science symposium in Hannover - looks like #ccsconf is the preferred hashtag:
