SAM BASKINGER , I work on Networked Insights backend and middle tier with a bent for testing and measuring the application's internals. Years of work in various startup environments has also interested me in the social component of how we do software and the sub-cultures our software fosters.
SAM BASKINGER

Reader to Leader Review

March 18, 2011

Reader to Leader by Jennifer Preece and Ben Shneiderman was linked off of the Connected Action blog recently. Having some down-time (well, not really, but needing some not-programming time to [...]

Sentiment in the drips-and-drabs of informal writing

February 25, 2010

Most of the effective algorithms for measuring sentiment rely on fairly well formatted, “predictable” text that follows formal grammar rules. But formal writing carries a bias. It is an immensely more difficult task to harvest information from the drips-and-drabs of informal writing such as is found in twitter and forums (or even blogs).

Stats, Baseball, and Software Development

July 8, 2009

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t change it “. This is one of those fundamentals that is so often forgotten at many levels of an organization. Every effort made [...]

Finding Consensus (and Hiding from Disagreement)

June 9, 2009

I was hoping to have a link to a research paper or report to backup some of what I’m about to claim, but alas, the radio interview that is prompting [...]