Analyzing Mailinglists with Python: Look who's talking!

Presented at Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), Aug. 5, 2017, 1:50 p.m. (60 minutes)

Mailinglists the oldest form of collaboration on the Internet and are central for social, software and hardware projects, but they are hardly used an object of study. We got a tool for that! #Software What can be seen, learned and understood while looking at Mailinglists? Big Bang helps you look at membership, participation, interaction, threads, stopwords and other vectors. During this workshop we'll explain you some basic concepts, show what we've done using Big Bang for analysis and help you to use it!

Presenters:

  • Niels ten Oever
    Niels implemented freedom of expression projects in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and Northern Africa, Brazil and Afghanistan and worked on global Internet governance issues in ICANN, IETF, IEEE and ITU. Niels started off working on radio when he got bitten by the Linux bug. After that he increasingly worked on websites, apps, internet governance, digital rights and digital security. Why? Because technology can support democratic processes by improving freedom of expression, access to information and organizing. Peer-to-peer is far more interesting than one-to-many. Niels is a free and open source software enthusiast who has trained journalists, activists and human rights defenders in reporting, activist engagement strategies in Internet governance fora, digital security, and media production. Niels holds a cum laude research MA in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam where he currently is a PhD candidate in the topic of Data Activism. Niels furthermore promises that this was the last time he wrote about himself in the third person. Twitter: @nielstenoever

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