Tag: networks

Biases are “baked into” the network

Keywords: About science as an activity, News

Once the network is created, you can no longer control for them or even “see” them in the network data. If two individuals are highly associated or never associated, it won’t be clear why from the network itself. For example, an association rate of 100% or 0% could be based on 500 observations or just five. That is, the precision of each edge is typically not “visible” in the network data because, when using typical approaches, an edge weight is a summary statistic like the mean or sum of contacts.

https://socialbat.org/2021/11/20/new-paper-on-analyzing-observations-for-creating-animal-social-networks

In + out of WordPress & Slacking off + on

I joined https://wordpress.slack.com a while back, mainly because apparently all of the cool WordPress people are there, using it, etc. 😎

Funny thing is: First + foremost the people who show up on the channel dedicated to help & support with using the WP Slack instance are people with help + support questions about WordPress! 😯

Then again, perhaps it isn’t quite as weird as it seems.

While I was leading the Linking together the WordPress community discussion (at WP Cafe in Berlin during the WCEU / Wordcamp Europe conference), I was amazed that most of the discussion participants were concerned with current condition of communications within the “developer” portion of the WordPress community.

It seems like there is much confusion about “community“… — throughout the WordPress community?