Research Speed Dating

Chris Bail,
SICSS

STRENGTHS OF GROUP PROJECTS

1. Better Science

1. Better Science

1. Better Science

2. This may be especially true for CSS

2. This may be especially true for CSS

3. Group Projects may be the Most Efficient Way for us to Learn from Each Other

CHALLENGES OF GROUP PROJECTS

Challenges

 

  1. Tremendous diversity of skills
  2. Ensuring good group chemistry
  3. Limited time
  4. Different goals?
  5. Free-riding

SICSS Group Projects

 

  1. Can take on many forms (from original empirical reseaarch to creation of open-source tools)
  2. In one week, many groups will only find enough time to create a proposal, though some may have pilot results by the end of the week.
  3. Limited seed funding may be available at your site for pilot research and/or data purchasing, cloud computing costs.
  4. Additional funding may be available at your site after the end of the week.

RESEARCH SPEED DATING

Research Speed-dating

 

  1. We crowdsource a list of research interests in a google doc (5 min)
  2. Each person writes a “1” next to their research interests (5 min)
  3. We identify maximally similar clusters of participants
  4. We identify maximally different clusters of participants

Research Speed-dating

 

  1. Maximally similar clusters come up with a group project (30 min)
  2. Maximally different clusters come up with a group project (30 min)
  3. We start a new google doc. Each person takes 5 minutes to write down their favorite group project idea
  4. Everyone puts their name next to the group project they want to join

Research Speed-dating

 

  1. Have lunch today with your group in order to begin discussing your project.
  2. It is ok to change groups until the end of today.

Timeline for this week

 

Monday: develop group project ideas and make research teams

Tuesday morning: write brief (<1 page) proposal

Tuesday afternoon: the organizer of your site will begin responding to seed funding requests on a rolling basis (if funds are available)

Tuesday afternoon-Thursday night: work on group projects

Friday (all day): group presentations (with feedback)

Deliverable

 

A document that contains a presentation of your group project that is between 10-20 minutes that explains:

1) Why your group project is important

2) What are your hypotheses?

3) What will you collect?

4) What are the next steps?

Note: not all projects will work; if yours fails, please write a post-mortem that explains why.

LET'S BEGIN

Let's crowdsource a list of our research interests

 

Place the name of a research interest in the first column of this document, and write a “1” across all research interests you have:

https://tinyurl.com/y9lgnl5y

Read the Googlesheet

 

Rows: 11
Columns: 7
$ name                     <chr> "Duncan", "Deborah", "Sandra", "Gary", "Mich…
$ bots                     <dbl> 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0
$ collective_behavior      <dbl> 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1
$ automtated_text_analysis <dbl> 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1
$ crime                    <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
$ mass_collaboration       <dbl> 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0
$ health                   <dbl> 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1

Identify Maximally similar

 

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Simulate Random Groups

 

[1] 1
[1] 2
[1] 4
[1] 5
[1] 8
[1] 10
[1] 20
[1] 25
[1] 40
[1] 50
[1] 100
[1] 125
[1] 200
[1] 250
[1] 500
[1] 1000

Identify maximally diverse groups

 

                      names diversity_score
149  Gary,Duncan,Alex,Jamie        2.484907
323 Jamie,Duncan,Emily,Alex        2.484907
368  Alex,Jamie,Gary,Duncan        2.484907
487 Duncan,Gary,Jamie,Emily        2.484907
532   Jamie,Emily,Gary,Alex        2.484907
591  Gary,Jamie,Alex,Duncan        2.484907
663 Emily,Duncan,Jamie,Gary        2.484907
685   Jamie,Gary,Alex,Emily        2.484907
728  Gary,Duncan,Jamie,Alex        2.484907
731  Duncan,Emily,Gary,Alex        2.484907

Go!

 

Meet in maximally similar and dissimilar groups for 30 minutes. Site organizer will create googlesheet where project ideas will be listed. At the end of each 30 minutes period, one group representative should write the name of the project and a brief (less than three sentence description). After the end of the exercise, put your name next to the research project that you are most excited about joining. Click on the link to the google doc for your site here: https://tinyurl.com/y867xb4s