[Bigbang-dev] Differentiating Communication Styles of Leaders on the Linux Kernel Mailing List

[Sebastian Benthall]

reminds me of something I once wrote up about tracking "gratitude flows"
and the reflexive consequences of that on an open community

http://dlab.berkeley.edu/blog/reflexive-data-science-overview

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Nick Doty <npdoty at ischool.berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> Opened https://github.com/sbenthall/bigbang/issues/262
> —npd
>
> On Aug 31, 2016, at 4:35 PM, Sebastian Benthall <sbenthall at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I actually love this damn good idea, Nick. Great find. Let's do something
> like this in version 0.3
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Nick Doty <npdoty at ischool.berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I love this paper on communication styles in the Linux kernel:
>> http://www.opensym.org/os2016/proceedings-files/p101-schneider.pdf
>>
>> Training a classifier to distinguish two particular authors, leaders in
>> the Linux development community, based on lexical choices. Use of "sorry",
>> "thanks", "actually", "never" and expletives are most discriminating.
>>
>> It makes me wonder whether this would also be an interesting
>> characteristic of one mailing list compared to another, in addition to
>> distinguish individual authors. "Where does your open source community fall
>> on the Actually-Thanks Spectrum (TM)?"
>>
>> I'd love to see this as part of BigBang, particularly if that kind of
>> lexical analysis or Bayes classification would be useful for lots of
>> research questions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick
>>
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