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DataScienceandJournalism:MiningDatafromWikipedia’sCoverageofCurrentEvents
ProfessorBrianKeeganDepartmentofInformationScience
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ButWikipediaisn’tanewspaper…
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Notanewdevelopment…
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Most-EditedArticlesbyMonthin2015
• Jan:CharlieHebdoshooting
• Feb:SuperBowlXLIX
• Mar:Germanwings Flight9525
• Apr:Nepalearthquake
• May:UKgeneralelection
• Jun:JurassicWorld
• Jul:DonaldTrump
• Aug:Tianjinexplosions
• Sep:JeremyCorbyn
• Oct:UmpquaCollegeshooting
• Nov:Parisattacks
• Dec:StarWarsVII
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm@bkeegan 4
Howdothesecollaborationswork?
Hightempocollaborationdynamics
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Inthefirst24hours:• Firstshotsfiredat2:02am• WParticlecreatedat2:52am• 1694revisions• 292uniqueeditors• 31secondsbetweenedits
Completerevisionhistorygoingbackto2002
Firstrevision– 2001 Firstrevision– 2004
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Hourlypageview statisticsgoingbackto2008
http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/@bkeegan 8
Semanticwebadoption
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Dozensoflanguageeditions
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FreeandpowerfulAPI
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Whatwerethebiggeststoriesoftheyear?
http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/@bkeegan 12
Forecastingandprediction
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IsWikipedia’sinformationsupplymeetingdemand?
http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/@bkeegan 14
Whoiscontributingtothesearticles?
Allcollaboratorson2014events First24hoursaftereacharticle’screation
http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/@bkeegan 15
Non-breaking Breaking
HowdootherWikipedians contribute?
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datajournalisminformationsciencecomputationalsocialsciencehuman-centereddatascience
statisticsprogramming
networkanalysismachinelearning
experimentaldesignnaturallanguageprocessing
informationvisualizationparticipatorydesign
actionresearchcrowdsourcingsurveydesignethnographydatamining
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Thankyou!www.brianckeegan.com
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