[Bigbang-dev] IETF mailing list analysis / research

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

Hi all, I have some unfinished work on a report for $DAYJOB that must be
finished and will join you all later today or tomorrow. Best, Joe

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 23:18 Nick Doty <npdoty at ischool.berkeley.edu> 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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