[Bigbang-dev] IETF mailing list analysis / research

Niels ten Oever niels at article19.org
Sat Mar 17 10:29:31 CET 2018


Hi all,

Mailinglist archives can be downloaded here:

IETF:
http://103.104.244.5/IETFmailMarch2018.tar.gz

But you can also come a get it from me on a USB stick at the hackathon!

Best,

Niels

Niels ten Oever

Article 19
www.article19.org

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On 03/17/2018 12:18 AM, Nick Doty wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If you're planning to join us for IETF Mailing List Analysis / BigBang
> hacking this weekend (or working on it in general), a couple of links:
> 
> 1. the BigBang repo: https://github.com/datactive/bigbang
> You can follow the instructions there to clone the repo and install
> dependencies and start looking at example notebooks, even before we
> start hacking
> 
> 2. an informal list of research
> questions: https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/IETF-Research-Questions
> Those are questions we could try to answer with our work this weekend,
> and I'm sure you have others and please add them or let us know.
> 
> 3. to actually get all the IETF mailing list data on your machine can
> take a long time! This page has some options we can use with git-lfs:
> https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/Collecting-and-sharing-mailing-list-archives
> And I believe Niels and I have some data on disk that we could transfer
> to participants.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 
>> Hi IETF Hackathon-ers,
>>
>> I've added IETF Mailing List Analysis as a technology on the IETF
>> hackathon wiki. Researchers (including folks from UC Berkeley,
>> NYU, University of Amsterdam) have been collaborating on software for
>> analyzing mailing list archives and communication history of technical
>> standard-setting groups including IETF. We'll be getting together at
>> IETF101 to hack on IETF archives to see what we can learn about
>> patterns of participation.
>>
>> More info about the open source project
>> here: https://github.com/datactive/bigbang
>>
>> We'll have documentation and data ready so that anyone who's
>> interested can start running basic analyses quickly, using
>> Jupyter notebooks. We would also welcome ideas of questions or
>> statistical measures of interest. What have you wanted to know or
>> surface about participation, communication patterns, demographics,
>> spread of ideas, etc. in IETF mailing lists? It might also be a good
>> time to talk about new IETF mail archives formats, a project I believe
>> is in progress.
>>
>> Feel free to contact me on- or off-list if you're interested in
>> participating, or have questions or comments.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick
>>
>> Nick Doty
>> UC Berkeley, School of Information

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