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

[Sebastian Benthall]

(one of the original motivating ideas of BigBang, believe it or not :) )

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Sebastian Benthall <sbenthall at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>
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