Comments on: The Manifesto http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/the-manifesto/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:07:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Bruce http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/the-manifesto/#comment-63 Bruce Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:51:51 +0000 http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/the-manifesto/#comment-63 How about making a thing like the Dolores color wheel, but with "perceived race" or with "perceived gender?" You can show Turks lots of photos (from facebook?) and have them guess race and/or gender, right? Maybe a two-dimensional plot with male-female on one axis and white-black on the other would be interesting, especially if it focused on the faces with less agreement (e.g., twelve Turks said X and eight Turks said Y). How about making a thing like the Dolores color wheel, but with “perceived race” or with “perceived gender?” You can show Turks lots of photos (from facebook?) and have them guess race and/or gender, right? Maybe a two-dimensional plot with male-female on one axis and white-black on the other would be interesting, especially if it focused on the faces with less agreement (e.g., twelve Turks said X and eight Turks said Y).

]]> By: caroline collins http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/the-manifesto/#comment-31 caroline collins Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:26:04 +0000 http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/the-manifesto/#comment-31 I thought i noticed a time-of-day effect in postings about obama and clinton on a certain NY Times message board. people who posted during working hours seemed more obama-friendly; the opposite seemed true in the evening (more clinton-friendly.) i guess there would be a way to have raters rate any given posting (time-stamp concealed) and then assign a shade of grey ( or red or blue) to denote a point on a specified obama-clinton continuum. then, simply make a tall column where each narrow row corresponds to the original postings, in order, but is represented by the color most frequently assigned by the raters. (or a mean if you prefer.) If the tall column looks like a gradient or two, there will have been a time of day effect. I noticed the phenomenon on the day an article ran about Hillary's red phone ad. Early posters were mostly vehement Hillary haters, or so it seemed, and it made me think the Hillary supporters might be at work, at the kind of jobs where they don't have the luxury of reading and posting to the NYTimes web sites. Later in the day, after dinner, it did seem that the Hillary folk began chiming in. I don't trust my biased self to rate the postings, and there were almost seven hundred of them, so it would be cool to have the Turks do it. Caroline I thought i noticed a time-of-day effect in postings about obama and clinton on a certain NY Times message board. people who posted during working hours seemed more obama-friendly; the opposite seemed true in the evening (more clinton-friendly.)

i guess there would be a way to have raters rate any given posting (time-stamp concealed) and then assign a shade of grey ( or red or blue) to denote a point on a specified obama-clinton continuum. then, simply make a tall column where each narrow row corresponds to the original postings, in order, but is represented by the color most frequently assigned by the raters. (or a mean if you prefer.) If the tall column looks like a gradient or two, there will have been a time of day effect.

I noticed the phenomenon on the day an article ran about Hillary’s red phone ad. Early posters were mostly vehement Hillary haters, or so it seemed, and it made me think the Hillary supporters might be at work, at the kind of jobs where they don’t have the luxury of reading and posting to the NYTimes web sites. Later in the day, after dinner, it did seem that the Hillary folk began chiming in.

I don’t trust my biased self to rate the postings, and there were almost seven hundred of them, so it would be cool to have the Turks do it.

Caroline

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/the-manifesto/#comment-14 Edward Vielmetti Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:06:58 +0000 http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/the-manifesto/#comment-14 hm, very cool. i wonder what you'd get if you asked your turkers to give some details about where they are in the world. e.g. is it reasonable to quiz them all on their distance to the nearest starbucks, the nearest library, the nearest jail or prison? that would be a neat set to visualize... another very good data set that would be good to have is to give someone a web page, and ask them to give you one (three, five) sets of search terms for which that page would be on good result for a search for that page. hm, very cool.

i wonder what you’d get if you asked your turkers to give some details about where they are in the world. e.g. is it reasonable to quiz them all on their distance to the nearest starbucks, the nearest library, the nearest jail or prison? that would be a neat set to visualize…

another very good data set that would be good to have is to give someone a web page, and ask them to give you one (three, five) sets of search terms for which that page would be on good result for a search for that page.

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