In the twenty-second episode of the „Efekt Sieci” podcast, members od DELab UW NGI Forward team project talk about investigating the technological challenges of a coronavirus pandemic and the methodology of the study.
The experts interviewed by Dr. Justyna Pokojska are Kristóf Gyódi and Michal Paliński, 2/3 of the team that developed the pandemic study using text mining (an interactive presentation containing the results of the study is available on the project website). Analysts answer questions about:
– the meaning of the term infodemia and ways of studying the phenomenon,
– the secrets of the text mining methodology and the fascinating and non-obvious elements of this method,
– factors that should be taken into account in the process of textual research,
– the results of the pandemic survey and what can be said from them and our social state of knowledge in the era of COVID-19,
– trends that have fluctuated over the period covered by the survey,
– ethical aspects of data science learning on death datasets,
– a flood of scientific papers of dubious quality.
