CommunityData:Workshop and Soft Block

Workshops

Spring 2022 quarter workshops are on Tuesdays. Please circulate/share your work by the end of the day (in your local time) of the Friday preceding your slot.

Starting in the Fall 2021 quarter, we are implementing weekly workshops in place of softblocks + a 3-hour C+F session. The main idea is that the CDSC workshop provides a weekly venue to present/share work about once per quarter. This would be similar to C&F, but spread over the quarter; in Fall 2021, we first tried this out in place of a C+F block.

Everyone is expected to attend the workshop sessions. Everyone is also expected to sign up to present/share work each quarter.

For Spring 2022: In the week you are presenting/sharing, you should circulate something for the group by EOD Friday before your Tuesday slot. Like in the critique and feedback session, you are welcome to workshop a wide range of things: planning documents, draft papers, manuscripts with reviews, grant applications, job market materials, practice talks, brainstorming potential projects, etc.

• [date] - [name]: [general topic item]
• Mar 29
• April 5 - Nate and Richard: Preliminary draft of specialization and mutualism project.
• April 12
• April 19 - Regina and Sejal: CHI Practice Talks (Nothing circulated in advance)
• April 26 - Sohyeon: discord bot study, initial memos
• May 3 (CHI week)
• May 10
• May 17 - ICA practice talks (Presenters: Kaylea - will be late, proposal defense is the same day, ???)
• May 24 - ICA practice talks (Presenters: ????)
• May 31 (ICA week)
• June 7 - Regina: Draft of Data Science Community paper
• June 14

Soft Block

Spring 2022 quarter soft blocks are on Fridays at 12:00 ET / 11:00 CT / 10:00 MT / 09:00 PT. Please circulate/share your work by the end of the day (in your local time) of the Wednesday preceding your slot.

The soft block is an hour on the calendar that almost everybody can make that but we leave "open" to use for a variety of things. This might be a meeting with another research group, a reading group, or an overflow workshops. It can be anything!

If you are using it as an overflow workshop, please try to send your material 2+ business days in advance as you would for the workshop.

Sign up below!

• [date] - [name]: [general topic item]
• April 1
• April 8
• April 15
• April 22 - GroupLens meetup
• April 29 - Dialogue invitation list sprint
• May 6 - Carl: wikia data descriptor paper draft
• May 13 - CAT Lab mixer Floor (library project idea)
• May 20 - Community dialogue happening today!
• May 27 -
• June 3 - GroupLens meetup (take 2)
• June 10

Past workshops

Winter 2021

We had a lot of interest in workshops this quarter, so we used the soft block time for them as well.

Workshop

• Jan 10 - Nate: Notes on a methodological paper on the effects of measurement error in machine learning models on research.
• Jan 17 - No Meeting (MLK Jr Day)
• Jan 24
• Jan 31 - Jeremy: Draft of revisions for "A systems approach to studying online organizations"
• Feb 7 - St3f: Defense proposal draft.
• Feb 14 - Sohyeon: WIKIPI extended abstract submission planning document
• Feb 21 - Carl: Moderation and Content Policies on the Fediverse (journal article draft).
• Feb 28 - Molly: modifiability (including concepts like right to repair) and consent in medical devices (thesis)
• Mar 7 - Zarine: Ideological capture/disinformation in small language Wikis project
• Mar 14 - Charlie: TBD (Dissertation Proposal 1 pagers)

Soft block

• Jan 28 - Regina: Feedback for CSCW revision
• Feb 4 - Floor: Fellowship app
• Feb 11 - CDSC Dialogues
• Feb 18
• Feb 25 - Yichen Shen (NU sociology student visiting)!
• Mar 4 - NU SoC grad student showcase
• Mar 11 - Regina (Workshop!): Dissertation Proposal draft

Fall 2021

• Oct 1 - Floor: Online labor SLR
• Oct 8 - Nate: No Community Can Do Everything (revisions for CSCW)
• Oct 15 - Sohyeon: Information loss project (to be WWW2022 submission)
• Oct 22 - St3f: Coraland Citizen Science App for Families (R&R for CSCW)
• Oct 29 - Nick V: The Theory of Critical Mass and Data Leverage
• Nov 5 - Charlie: CSCW "Why These Rules?" submission / feedback on reviews and paper
• Nov 12 - Sneha: Proposal for an NSF (or other) proposal on community governance
• Nov 19 - Carl
• Nov 26 - Thanksgiving week / no meeting
• Dec 3 - Regina: Three dissertation ideas
• Dec 10 - Kaylea: Reviews & Revision Planning for the Qualities of Quality systematic lit review paper