The social structure of new wiki communities

6 minute read

Published: April 17, 2023

A new paper that our that our group has published seeks to test whether the kind of communication patterns associated with successful offline teams also predict success in online collaborative settings. Surprisingly, we find that it does not. In the rest of this blog post, we summarize that research and unpack that result.

BeautifulSoup Example

14 minute read

Published: November 01, 2019

Beautiful Soup example

I get to be a professor!

3 minute read

Published: April 18, 2019

Eight years ago, I left my job as a product manager and decided that I wanted to go back to school. During the next six months, I taught myself some basic Python and learned as much as a I could about Master’s degree programs studying “the Internet”. I was fortunate enough to learn about and be accepted into the Media, Technology, and Society program at Purdue, where I took my first courses in Communication (while simultaneously teaching my first courses in Communication!). I had an incredible advisor in Seungyoon Lee, and wonderful mentors like Sorin Matei, Lorraine Kisselburgh, and Torsten Reimer.

Superlinear stress

3 minute read

Published: October 02, 2018

My wife and I recently had our fourth(!) child. He is really wonderful and having an infant in the house has been magical and fantastic.