• Archive for November, 2011

    Hiring and Placement in the iSchools

    by  • November 11, 2011 • Academia, Research • 1 Comment

    A growing body of literature examines trends in department prestige, graduate employment, and faculty hiring in academic fields such as communication, computer science, economics, higher education administration, and political science. Until recently, we had no similar empirical literature about the relative prestige or reputations of information graduate programs. Emilee Rader (now at Michigan State)...

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    Bash script for adding MySQL users

    by  • November 9, 2011 • Code • 0 Comments

    Now that we’re using Amazon EC2 for our lab computing needs, I find I’m doing many server maintenance tasks over and over again. One of my least favorites is adding new MySQL users. So, I wrote a bash script that makes adding them easier. You can get the script at our Github organization or...

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    Qualitatively Coding Tweets

    by  • November 9, 2011 • Research, Social Computing • 2 Comments

    In studying politicians on Twitter, one of my goals is to understand what they’re talking about. The trouble is, tweets are incredibly difficult to code. Researchers at Maryland claimed success with a coding scheme for Congress’ tweets, but my colleagues, students, and I were never able to reach acceptable inter-rater reliability using their scheme...

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    A Little Press, Some Acceptance for Public Officials on Twitter Projects

    by  • November 2, 2011 • Academia, Presentations, Research • 0 Comments

    The Aldermen and Congress on Twitter projects made it into popular press and another conference this morning. You can read the popular press story from the Medill News site and conference abstracts below the jump. The papers investigate connections Aldermen make with their constituents via Twitter and how the language members of Congress use...

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