From 12f2551161f779fda5eebf07e81bd9aeae653b38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyudmila Vaseva <vaseva@mi.fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:40:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add feedback from presi --- meeting-notes/20190606.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meeting-notes/20190606.md diff --git a/meeting-notes/20190606.md b/meeting-notes/20190606.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..732b3f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/meeting-notes/20190606.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +# Meeting 06.06.2019 -- Research Group 2nd presi + +## Questions + +* Talk to people? --hellya + +## Feedback + +slide 13 +* possible explanation of the surge of filter hits in 2016: Trump came to power, Brexit happened and the first large-scale suspicion of manipulated elections was voiced +* modify the diagram (num filter hits/month) in such a way, that we can identify the number for each month (stretch the x-axis); maybe also plot a regression line through it + +* split descriptive stats/visualisations in filters characteristics and filter activities (one bunch which focuses on filter themselves and one that takes the number of hits into account) + +* talk to Mariam about methodology and coding + +* Till now the whole inquiry is largely descriptive. It's fine the status quo is captured but then we should go a step further and ask "so what"? What do we have from that? Explain the data + * maybe we won't be able to explain a lot of it and we can open it further as interesting questions to be looked into by ethnographers + +* think about what values we embed to what systems and how; --> Lessig +* to answer the question about evolution over time, I really do need the abuse_filter_history table +* modify 3rd question to: why are regexes still there when we have ML; answering it most probably involves talking to people + +* check what questions the first bot papers asked, may serve as inspiration +* another difference bots/filters, it's easier to ddos the bot infrastructure, than the filters: buy a cluster and edit till the revert table overflows + -- GitLab