@DWShaffer profile picture
David Williamson Shaffer @DWShaffer

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

Joined May 2013
  • Tweets 2,024
  • Following 194
  • Followers 864
143 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
David Williamson Shaffer@DWShaffer
7 May 2017
#QuantitativeEthnography now on sale! Whooot! Order from Amazon (amazon.com/dp/0578191687) or visit quantitativeethnography.org #soHappy #finally
2
10
35
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
1 Jul 2023
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 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…
1
1
4
747
😳 lemonde.fr/en/united-states/…

US broadcaster NPR quits Twitter over 'government-funded' label

The radio broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility "by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent."

lemonde.fr
256
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 theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

AI Isn’t Omnipotent. It’s Janky.

Scary scenarios about malevolent machines are a distraction from problems that artificial intelligence is creating right now.

theatlantic.com
3
15
640
David Williamson Shaffer retweeted
Mamta Shah, Ph.D.@MamtaShah
15 Mar 2023
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.
Michael Phillips@thinkingmike
13 Mar 2023
A 🧵👇 Join @MamtaShah et al on March 24- 8am CST for a discussion on Capacity Building: A Core Component of #QE Research. The session is open to all and no prior experience is required. Register using this link- forms.gle/rdA39u4WtD8i3qEL8. @QE_soc @ICQEConf
3
6
799
Sigh. One more example of why we can’t have anything nice straitstimes.com/asia/east-a…
286
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
10 Mar 2023
"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.
1
2
584
“At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.”– Chuang Tzu
0:08
6
1,499
I wouldn’t mind answering email as much if I could do it from here more often….
1
5
346
A moment of zen
0:10
11
511
Where it started… where it ended
1
298
David Williamson Shaffer retweeted
David Williamson Shaffer@DWShaffer
1 Mar 2023
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
1
1
245
David Williamson Shaffer retweeted
David Williamson Shaffer@DWShaffer
1 Mar 2023
After a bunch of back and forth, Jason said at one point (and I am paraphrasing a bit): 9/
Quote that says: Ah, so what we have looking at the data is a kind of "God's eye" view, but when we're segmenting, we're trying to figure out what the people in the data can see rather than what we can see.

ALT Quote that says: Ah, so what we have looking at the data is a kind of "God's eye" view, but when we're segmenting, we're trying to figure out what the people in the data can see rather than what we can see.

1
1
190
David Williamson Shaffer retweeted
David Williamson Shaffer@DWShaffer
1 Mar 2023
Why I Teach, or A Primer on #QE Segmentation from a First-Year College Student a 🧵 1/
1
4
4
597
David Williamson Shaffer retweeted
David Williamson Shaffer@DWShaffer
16 Feb 2023
For those of you wondering about the impact of o̸̶̥̣̊̇ů̸̶̥̣̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇n̸̶̥̣̊̇e̸̶̥̣̊̇ẘ̸̶̥̣̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇Ḁ̸̶̣̊̇I̸̶̥̣̊̇ ̸̶̥̣̊̇o̸̶̥̣̊̇v̸̶̥̣̊̇e̸̶̥̣̊̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇l̸̶̥̣̊̇o̸̶̥̣̊̇r̸̶̥̣̊̇d̸̶̥̣̊̇s̸̶̥̣̊̇ ChatGPT on education... newsweek.com/if-chatgpt-can-…

If ChatGPT Can Replace What We Teach, We Should Teach Something Else

Artificial intelligence bots are already passing the Medical Licensing Exam and law and business school tests but, as a professor of education and former middle and high school teacher who has spent...

newsweek.com
4
13
946
Because of course it is… 'Prompt Engineering' is One of the Hottest Jobs in AI businessinsider.com/prompt-e…

'Prompt engineering' is one of the hottest jobs in generative AI. Here's how it works.

Prompt engineers are responsible for talking to AI chatbots in creative ways to identify errors and hidden capabilities to ensure safety and accuracy.

businessinsider.com
148
Why I Teach, or A Primer on #QE Segmentation from a First-Year College Student a 🧵 1/
1
4
4
597
more replies
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**. 18/
1
145
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
1
1
245
Load more