David Williamson Shaffer

Data Philosopher, Quantitative Ethnographer, Learning Analytics-person, Learning Scientist. Also, dad, husband, sailor, musician, lover of twizzlers

[David Williamson Shaffer @DWShaffer]

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@Delta you pretend you want feedback from your customers, but literally this is the only way to send you something. You send emails but then there’s no way to reply to them

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@Delta
If you’re going to get rid of all the perks for being a frequent flyer, could you just do it all at once and get it over with? I’m tired of getting email every few weeks saying how you’re going to make things worse while somehow pretending that’s not what you’re doing. Thx

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Well… it’s the best place now that @s_karumbaiah is starting an an assistant professor in the fall!

@SoLAResearch @AIEDconf @QE_soc @islsnews @UWMadEducation

[Shamya Karumbaiah @s_karumbaiah]

My dept at UW-Madison is hiring a new assistant professor in learning sciences.

I’m @AIEDconf this week - happy to chat with anyone interested in applying.

TLDR: it’s the absolute best place. Join us!

@UWMadEducation @islsnews @SoLAResearch @DWShaffer

https://t.co/cCOZLy70aP

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Are you sure you’re worried about AI for the right reasons?

Read this great interview with @ambakak in @TheAtlantic

Rather than worry about cheating we should be teaching students how to use AI safely — and how to demand good AI regulation

https://t.co/N2a3hV3bqp

[Mamta Shah, Ph.D. @MamtaShah]

I’ll say it again. The @QE_soc sandbox sessions are a great space for community building. I’ll be sharing a few things I practice as a research manager of QE projects at @ElsevierConnect and I am looking to learn a lot from the attendees! Join us and we will think together.

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Sigh. One more example of why we can’t have anything nice https://t.co/hZcDKFWqF7

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Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

[Rupert Wegerif @rupertwegerif]

"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is" T.S.Elliot.

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“At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.”– Chuang Tzu

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I wouldn’t mind answering email as much if I could do it from here more often….

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A moment of zen

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Where it started… where it ended

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All of which is just to say that:

A. You can't organize your data (or do much of anything else with it) without reading and understanding it first

B. You learn a lot from teaching

C. Zhang's Rule is a good way of thinking about why segmentation has to be emic

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After a bunch of back and forth, Jason said at one point (and I am paraphrasing a bit):

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Why I Teach, or

A Primer on #QE Segmentation from a First-Year College Student

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For those of you wondering about the impact of o̸̶̥̣̊̇ů̸̶̥̣̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇n̸̶̥̣̊̇e̸̶̥̣̊̇ẘ̸̶̥̣̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇Ḁ̸̶̣̊̇I̸̶̥̣̊̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇o̸̶̥̣̊̇v̸̶̥̣̊̇e̸̶̥̣̊̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇l̸̶̥̣̊̇o̸̶̥̣̊̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇d̸̶̥̣̊̇s̸̶̥̣̊̇ ChatGPT on education...

https://t.co/vSgwlOAjhA

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Because of course it is…

'Prompt Engineering' is One of the Hottest Jobs in AI https://t.co/KqvqRt1hVd

[David Williamson Shaffer @DWShaffer]

All of which is just to say that:

A. You can't organize your data (or do much of anything else with it) without reading and understanding it first

B. You learn a lot from teaching

C. Zhang's Rule is a good way of thinking about why segmentation has to be emic

19/x

[David Williamson Shaffer @DWShaffer]

Why I Teach, or

A Primer on #QE Segmentation from a First-Year College Student

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[David Williamson Shaffer @DWShaffer]

My claim about what lines are "connected" in the data has to come from an emic perspective -- that is, from **what a person in the data would see and how they would see it**.

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