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  • 2012-10-25 1 note

    The Electric Rice Cooker: How WeiboScope came to fruition

    electricricecooker:

    The JMSC’s WeiboScope is a visualisation project that came to life in late 2011, but which would not have been possible without the social media project led by my then-boss Dr. Fu King-wa. The public may have heard of the catchy name of WeiboScope, but it really builds on the data gathering…

    Source: 147.8.142.184

  • 2012-06-02 0 notes

    Skepticism Greets Google’s Attempt to Deal With Censored Terms in China

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    What's in a weibo?

  • 2012-06-01 0 notes

    Charting China’s Social Media Censorship

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    Cool Data Visualizations Shed Light on Chinese Microblog Censorship

  • 2012-05-30 0 notes

    Reverse engineering Chinese censorship: When and why are controversial tweets deleted?

  • 2012-05-27 0 notes

    The 6 most-censored events from 2012 on China's Twitter

  • 2012-05-06 0 notes

    MAS S61 final project 1st draft

    For the final class project, I want to do something with the data collected from the University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Centre’s WeiboScope Search project. In class last week, Ethan Zuckerman suggested that one option may be to do an online art piece using the most censored Chinese words on Sina Weibo. Out of curiosity, I did a draft of the 100 most censored Chinese words on Sina Weibo to see what came up. Here’s a quick translation of the most censored Chinese words:

    转发微博 retweet weibo (simplified Chinese)

    转 retweet

    转发 retweet

    轉發微博 retweet weibo (traditional Chinese)

    哈哈 ha ha

    偷笑 smile

    嘻嘻 hee hee

    呵呵 he he

    哈 ha

    哈哈哈 ha ha ha

    蜡烛 candle

    怒 anger

    吃惊 surprise

    泪 tears

    围观 crowd

    话筒 microphone

    思考 think

    赞 praise

    威武 mighty

    求证 confirm

    衰 decline

    挖鼻屎 pick boogers

    The most common words are the Chinese equivalent of “retweet” or “RT.” The next most common are expressions, such as “ha ha” or “anger.” It doesn’t make much sense that the 50 cent party are simply censoring emotions. I’ll need to figure out a way to come up with a way to dig one layer deeper.

  • 2012-04-27 0 notes

    @jainee_ankit and my recommendations on clusters in China made it to Tim Geithner .. #heartMIT

    This semester, my classmate Ankit Jain and I are working with Professor Huang Yasheng on a consulting project he has with the provincial government of Guangdong. Ankit and I, along with one of Professor Huang Yasheng’s PhD students, made a trip to the Pearl River Delta region over spring break to interview factories for this project. We received an email from Professor Huang Yasheng at 9:21 PM Monday evening with the heading: “urgent need for some information on your trip” asking us six questions. In the email, Professor Huang Yashengsaid that he needed the information for a talk he would be giving at 10:30 AM the next morning in Washington D.C.  

    We just got out of a meeting with Professor Huang Yasheng to discuss the latest status on our project. It turns out that Professor Huang Yasheng met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner while he was in Washington D.C. The U.S. Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State will be traveling to Beijing next week for the Strategic Economic Dialogue so Timothy Geithner wanted to get outside input from Professor Huang Yasheng on the Chinese currency issue.

  • 2012-04-09 0 notes

    Birds of a feather flock together

    Pelicans

    At the wildly-successful MBA Charity Auctions last semester students bid on big-ticket items like professional sports tickets and shopping trips to New York.

    But one lucky student bid on and won a group hug from the Caribbean Pelicans. It went for $50 and the winner scored an embrace with MBA ’12 students Bilikiss Adebiyi, Jamie Fordyce, Chi-Chu Tschang, K, Kuohsin Chen, and Anand Dass. Group hugs are what the Pelicans, a close-knit group, are known for.

    The Pelicans are just one of several teams in the Caribbean Cohort, or “ocean.” At the start of the MIT Sloan MBA program, all students are divided into oceans and then divided further into multiple teams, to support their success in the first-semester MBA Core. The Core teams, assigned by the MIT Sloan administration, are designed to be as diverse as possible. The students spend nearly three-and-a-half intense months together, but then typically disband and go their separate ways after the Core ends.

    The six Caribbean Pelicans from the class of 2012 formed such an unusually tight-knit group that they still meet up socially and for school work. Dass said the bond among his group formed quickly, when they met at the start of the program and discussed mutual goals.

    “Early on, we spent a lot of time discussing our expectations both professionally and personally. We alternated responsibilities in assigning homework and we just set the structure up front,” he said.

    Dass said because of these boundaries, the group members understood and respected that the bonds weren’t just based on friendship – otherwise no work would have been accomplished. “If we based it on just friendship, the quality of our work would have dropped.”

    Once the teamwork responsibilities were established, the group took an informal retreat to Fordyce’s summer home in Rhode Island.

    “We cooked lobster, played guitar, and made a fire,” Fordyce remembered. K instigated the group hug as a way of boosting morale when the Core got rough, and six lifetime friendships were forged.

    In working on MBA projects, the Pelicans have supported one another’s ambitions and professional aspirations. When Dass entered the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition 4th Annual Elevator Pitch Contest last year [he was the winner], his fellow Pelicans encouraged him to practice during his Communication for Managers (15.280) class. Tschang inquired whether he should really pursue a career in finance, and the other Pelicans honestly urged him to consider other career options. After much consideration, he ultimately accepted a job offer at J.P. Morgan.

    “We all really help each other out in terms of advice. It’s very nice to know you can count on your teammates,” said Chen.

    Last semester, several of them took the Early Stage Capital elective class (15.391), and they formally re-formed the Pelicans Core team because the class was so intense. Adebiyi was grateful for the renewed study group.
    “I had a lot of things going on at the time,” she said. “I just trust these guys, and they picked up the slack for me and didn’t make me feel bad about it. It was really very nice.”

    As their MBA program winds down, the Pelicans don’t socialize together as much as they would like, but they still find time for lunches and occasional weekend getaways. Last May, K, Tschang, Chen, and Adebiyi all traveled to Puerto Rico on vacation. K and Fordyce met up in Panama over IAP recently, and some of the other Pelicans’ travels have overlapped during international tours and treks, as well.

    They are now considering a group trip to Europe, possibly after Commencement, Dass said.

    “We’ll definitely be in touch, although I don’t know how often we’ll get to see each other,” K said.

    “I don’t want to think about it,” Dass lamented. By Amy MacMillan

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