Drew Conway, Strata Conference (Santa Clara, CA). Feb. 2014.
This NSF-funded project proposes the creation of a virtual institute to increase the coherence of scientific and public knowledge across disciplines that study Open Online Communities, making them more productive and effective.
Project websiteMy main research field is Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. My principal line of work is the study of Open Online Communities (OOC) like Wikipedia, open source software projects or StackExchange.
Read MoreThe Wikipedia Data Analysis Toolkit (WikiDAT) provides an extensible toolbox, based on Python and R, to retrieve, prepare, analyse and visualize data about Wikipedia in different languages. It includes example cases with best practices.
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