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''This page contains jargon and common shorthand used within the team and perhaps more broadly.''
''This page contains jargon and common shorthand used within the team and perhaps more broadly.''


'''ASA''' - American Sociological Association or, more typically, it's [http://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2018 annual meeting] held each year; less commonly, the American Statistics Association
'''ASA''' - '''American Sociological Association''' or, more typically, it's [http://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2018 annual meeting] held each year; less commonly, the '''American Statistical Association'''


'''CHI''' - (pronounced 'kai' not 'chee'). The Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI stands for Computer-Human Interaction). A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). [https://chi2017.acm.org/ 2017 Conference]  
'''CHI''' - (pronounced 'kai' not 'chee'). The Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI stands for Computer-Human Interaction). A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). [https://chi2017.acm.org/ 2017 Conference]  

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This page contains jargon and common shorthand used within the team and perhaps more broadly.

ASA - American Sociological Association or, more typically, it's annual meeting held each year; less commonly, the American Statistical Association

CHI - (pronounced 'kai' not 'chee'). The Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI stands for Computer-Human Interaction). A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). 2017 Conference

CSCW - (pronounced as quickly as possible). The Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). [1]

IC2S2 - The International Conference on Computational Social Science

jitsi - (pronounced 'JIT-see'). An online meetings platform similar to Google Hangout. Jitsi Project Site

Computers

Hyak - (pronounced 'Hi-yak'). Supercomputer at UW. See hyak.

Nada - Another computer at UW mainly for interacting with the Internet.

Asha - Another computer at UW mainly for working with Scratch data.

Things that used to be on the above list but are not so important

guix - (pronounced 'geeks'). GNU Package Manager, for team use on hyak.