Revscoring 1.0 and some demos

The "Revision Scoring" logo

Hey folks,

I've mostly been traveling recently, but I have got some hacking in.  There are a few things I want to share.

1. I just released the revscoring 1.0 -- revscoring is the library that powers ORES.  I developed it to make building and deploying machine learning models as services easier. 
2. I wrote up an ipython notebook that demonstrates how to build a machine learning classifier to detect vandalism in Wikipedia.
3. I just finished writing up an ipython notebook that digs into how the feature extraction system in revscoring works.  

Next week, I hope to be showing you some more about the disparate impact of damage detectors on anons.  Stay tuned.

Pre-blog: The life of a traveling technologist

So, I didn't have much time this week and I'm doing this Iron Blogging thing.  If you got here looking for a cool discussion of the life of a traveling technologist, I regret to inform you that this will only be a meta-discussion.  Once I've completed the proper discussion, I'll put the link right below this paragraph.

What?

So my life is pretty weird in a lot of ways.  I travel a lot.  I generally don't see my teammates at the Wikimedia Foundation for months at a time.  Worse, I have a group of friends who are extremely geographically distributed that my geographically local friends don't know about.  We only see each other during conferences and other academic events.  

Another sort of interesting aspect of my professional life is that I straddle the line between industry and academia.  When it comes to the meat of knowledge & knowledge production, there's no conflict.  But the timescales are amazingly different.  

But through dealing with this, I've worked out some hacks.  Some have to do with communication channels and making it feel like you are present even when you are not in the office.  Others are my folding bike and the amazing experience I get visiting European cities.  

So, I conclude with a promise of future bloggings with photos and insights.  I just don't have the time right now!

Some of my geographically distributed social network who are

unknown to my local friends. 

My cardboard cutout at the WMF office.

My folding bike -- waiting for my flight.