On January 28th, Nature published a brief news story by science writer and editor Sara Phillips about the latest threat from AI to online veracity, in this case, the virtual undetectability of chatbots responding to social science surveys. The centerpiece of the story was a peer-reviewed paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy ofContinue reading “The Sorcerer’s App”
Category Archives: Active Sensemaking
Statistics in the Triad, Part IX: Entropy, or How Much the Data Are Concentrated
The two previous posts in this series looked at where sensemaking story data are concentrated in a ternary. Part VIIIa explored the use of a non-parametric method for calculating smooth (continuous) contour lines, essentially a data-driven “guess” at the density of story points. Part VIIIb gave examples of a simpler, albeit less elegant, alternative —Continue reading “Statistics in the Triad, Part IX: Entropy, or How Much the Data Are Concentrated”
What rhymes with REDACTION?
At times, it is important to step in and protect the identity of someone sharing an experience in an Active Sensemaking collection to help keep anonymity. We ask people not to share identifiable details about themselves or the people they write about. Some projects center around sensitive or volatile subjects where identifying people or placesContinue reading “What rhymes with REDACTION?”
Fiddling with data
I am always looking for new data visualizations that help stakeholders see something they might not understand with numbers or words. We can take the results from a Slider question and present it in its histogram format and most people will be able to interpret the responses overall. We can tell that the vast majorityContinue reading “Fiddling with data”