#ONA16 - Data Science and Journalism

#ONA16 - Data Science and Journalism

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  Data Science and Journalism: Mining Data from Wikipedia’s Coverage of Current Events Professor Brian Keegan Department of Information Science [email protected] @bkeegan
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  But Wikipedia isn’t a newspaper… @bkeegan 2
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  Not a new development… @bkeegan 3
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  Most-Edited Articles by Month in 2015 • Jan: Charlie Hebdo shooting • Feb: Super Bowl XLIX •Mar: Germanwings Flight 9525 • Apr: Nepal earthquake • May: UK general election • Jun: Jurassic World • Jul: Donald Trump • Aug: Tianjin explosions • Sep: Jeremy Corbyn • Oct: Umpqua College shooting • Nov: Paris attacks • Dec: Star Wars VII https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm @bkeegan 4
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  How do these collaborations work?
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  High tempo collaboration dynamics @bkeegan 6 In the first 24 hours: • First shots fired at 2:02 am •WP article created at 2:52 am • 1694 revisions • 292 unique editors • 31 seconds between edits
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  Complete revision history going back to 2002 First revision – 2001 First revision –2004 @bkeegan 7
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  Hourly pageview statistics going back to 2008 http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/ @bkeegan 8
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  Semantic web adoption @bkeegan 9
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  Dozens of language editions @bkeegan 10
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  Free and powerful API @bkeegan 11
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  What were the biggest stories of the year? http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/ @bkeegan 12
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  Forecasting and prediction @bkeegan 13
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  Is Wikipedia’s information supply meeting demand? http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/ @bkeegan 14
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  Who is contributing to these articles? All collaborators on 2014 events First 24 hours after each article’s creation http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/ @bkeegan 15
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  Non-breaking Breaking How do other Wikipedians contribute? @bkeegan16
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  data journalism information science computational social science human-centered data science statistics programming network analysis machine learning experimental design natural language processing information visualization participatory design action research crowdsourcing survey design ethnography data mining @bkeegan 17
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  Thank you! www.brianckeegan.com @bkeegan http://www.dutiee.com/wp-content/uploads/nonprofitdata11.jpg