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Transcript of Herriot award lecture 2012
Mike MessnerUSEPA / Office of Water
wiki.epa.gov/statipedia
Disclaimer Opinions expressed in this presentation are those of
the author and do not necessarily represent policy of the Environmental Protection Agency or the US Government.
Questions for Audience For whom do you work?
Fed gov’t University Contractor/consultant
What role do you play? Statistician Economist Other analyst
How do you use wikis? Ever edit a wiki? Use Wikipedia? (Britannica link) (PWS link) (WSS link) Registered for Statipedia?
What I fear I do
Outline Rambling
2004-2010 – Casting about
2010 – Getting started
2010-2012 Charting progress
Statipedia Today Summary stats
A quick tour
Wants & needs
A Surprise!
Questions / Discussion
Rambling
Until ~2008, great pleasure was adding new tools to my toolbox.
Artificial neural networks
Polytomous regression
Categorization and regression trees
Cloud computing
Open source software
Social media (this morning’s tweet)
Rambling Love of tools extends to home, also.
Woodworking
Microelectronics – Basic stamp computer, robotics
Computer numerical control & milling machines
Here, using little machine to make a bigger one:
Rambling What to make with the big machine?
Rambling Sea Change – Mentoring junior staff & Social media
New tools kept coming – even faster
Wikis
New ways to plan & document work
Better collaboration & knowledge management @ EPA
Twitter – new, good ideas every week (Shipping)
Meet-Up - DC-area R Users Group
Change extended to life outside of work, too.
Facebook (report progress with machines / violin)
Wiki – for planning get-togethers & travel
Meanwhile, @ BLS
2004-2009 - Casting About Peter Meyer and James Buszuwski (both of BLS)
Many presentations, but few nibbles
“Toy” wiki @ https://statipedia.org/wiki
November 2009 FCSM presentation
January 2010 white paper
July 2009 – Peter gave a presentation @ Census-hosted OECD conference “Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge”…
Their basic message: Federal communities of experts use wikis to collaborate
and share knowledge: Intelligence agencies use Intellipedia DOD uses Dod Techipedia State dept uses Diplopedia
Long-run benefits of wiki: Better knowledge management Finding specialists and experts Prepare for retirements and turnover Encourage reproducibility of scientific results Reduce overwhelming flows of email More “dissemination”; More “discoverability”
Basic message, continued Federal community of statisticians Huge number (thousands)
Highly trained / experienced
Not well-networked.
Many isolated or in isolated units
Could realize huge benefit from wiki collaboration Share data and source material
Collaborate with other experts
Share models, definitions, methods and computer code
Learn from other’s successes and failures.
(See also “benefits” listed on previous slide.)
Hooked! July 2009 – Peter hooked Mike @ Census-hosted
OECD conference “Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge”. Mike then hooked EPA’s chief statistician Barry Nussbaum and social media wiz David Eng.
August-September 2010 – obtained EPA and BLS commitment memos & formally requested EPA-hosted wiki
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 2:58 PMTo: Meyer, Peter - BLSSubject: Statipedia - You tossed out a baited hook (at Census) to seewho might nibble.
I manage a wiki here at EPA, where we use it for a variety ofcollaborations, but most of the ~ 800 pages deal with statistics. Not astatipedia, but the sort of like the beginnings of one. The wiki is onour intranet, so can't be accessed from outside the agency.
There is talk here about building an enviropedia - making it public, butwith control by EPA.
I think there could be support here (not just me) for your statipediavision. Maybe we should have lunch sometime soon. I could invite ourchief statistician and lead wiki guru, with high probability that (0.85)they'd nibble, too.
Cheers!
--Mike
10/25/2010: It’s Alive!!!
0 Content pages2 Pages0 Uploaded files3 Page edits1 Registered user3 Active users4 Administrators4 Bureaucrats57 Total views
52 Views on Main Page5 Views on User:Mmessner
Statipedia Stats 10/27/2010
Early Hurdles Training (not so bad)
Access from outside EPA1. Request access to EPA Portal
2. When access granted, setup account
3. Wiki Admin adds name to Oracle Group
4. Register IP address
Permissions
Login to Statipedia – initially & after 30 minutes inactive
Add desired features Logo
Extensions (math, category permissions, …)
Early Milestones 10/25/2010 - First edit and new page 11/4/2010 – 10th “content page” created 11/8/2010 – 100th page edit 11/17/2010 – 1000th page view 11/19/2010 – 10th registered user 11/25/2010 – 10th file uploaded 11/25/2010 – 100th page added 11/30/2010 – 1st custom logo added 12/3/2010 – Registered users span 10 federal agencies 12/21/2010 – 100th content page added 12/23/2010 – 1000th view of the main page 1/11/2011 – 1000th page edit 1/25/2011 – BarnRaising – 10 pages have 100 views, each
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Statipedia Today - As of 4/9/2012
733 Content pages
1366 Pages
91 Uploaded files
5086 Page edits
103 Registered users
2 Active users
22,161 Total views
4,185 Views on Main Page
874 Views of BarnRaising Page
Quick Tour Main Page
New Pages
Sidebar Recent changes
Rules of Behavior
Tabs / Links @ Top & Bottom
Wiki Statistics
April 2012 Events
Categories – At the agencies Permissions
Cloud computing / TestDrive
Since Creation Average 42 page-views per day.
Average 2.6 new pages per day.
Average 10 page-edits per day.
Average page has been
edited 3.7 times and
viewed 16 times.
Statistics have been increasing at steady rate, (We had hoped the rate would increase.) except for jumps immediately following meetings and workshops.
How does Statipedia compare? Mature, active wikis have many more views and edits per
page. WikiTravel: 22.9 edits/page
En-Wikipedia: 19.3 edits/page
WikiBooks: 15.3 edits/page
WikiSummaries: 12.3 edits/page
SAS Community: 4.1 edits /page, 4953 views/page
OGWDW Strategies: 6.3 edits/page, 836 views/page
Statipedia: 3.7 edits/page
16 views/page
Wants / Needs Some entity or person with authority – to give stamp of
approval & let federal statisticians know that using and contributing to Statipedia is:
Allowed (as part of official duties) and
Encouraged (even better)
Critical mass of users that regularly visit the site, adding content and improving the information that is already there.
??? Open the wiki to public access ???
User Poll1. If access is open to consultants (contractors and
academics), how would it affect how often you use Statipedia?
I would use Statipedia less than I do now. (1/11)
I would use Statipedia about as often as I do now. (7/11)
I would use Statipedia more often than I do now. (3/10)
User Poll2. If access is open to consultants (contractors and
academics), how would it affect how often you use edit and add content to Statipedia?
I would need to stop editing and adding content because my agency would consider that to be posting to the internat.(0/10)
I would need to stop editing and adding content until I check with my agency’s web content manager. (4/10)
I would edit and add content less often. (1/10)
I would edit and add content about as often as I do now (5/10)
I would edit and add content more often than I do now (0/10)
User Poll3. How would you like us to proceed?
Please keep things as they are. Removing access restrictions will not work for my agency. (1/11)
Please take your time here. Learn how this will impact our registered users, then proceed with caution. (4/11)
Please remove the access restrictions. We need a more active user community. (5/11)
Whatever. I’d be fine either way. (1/11)
Poll Results One of 11 responded that he/she would use Statipedia
less, and asked us to keep it the same.
Four of 10 responded that they’d need to stop editing until they could check with their agency’s web content manager.
Ten of 11 were encouraging or supportive, though some urged caution to first see how the change would impact registered users.
The few who have contributed the bulk of content have no problem with the change.
News Flash Statipedia is no longer restricted to federal gov’t
employees!
You are invited to join us.
Registration is required, but will be granted to those who go through the process.
We don’t expect any pranksters or vandals, but you never know…
We may need to adjust our simple Rules of Behavior. You can help with that, by chiming in on their “discussion page”
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS
Currently, registration is limited to employees of the federal government.
1. Go to http://portal.epa.gov and click on "Request Access to the EPA Portal" 2. Fill out the form 3. Specify Michael Messner as your EPA Sponsor. Mike's email address is [email protected]. His phone number is 202-564-5268 4. From the "Select the Community of Application for which you are requesting access," select "General Portal Access." 5. Enter and confirm a password in the appropriate fields. (This will be your initial password once your account is established.) 6. Check the box for "I accept the EPA Privacy and Security Notice." 7. Click on Submit
In a few days, you will receive a "Welcome to Statipedia" message from Mike Messner, notifying you that your account has been established. The URL for the Statipedia wiki is https://wiki.epa.gov/statipedia. Go there and log in. You can always get a new password Emailed to you by using the "Forgot your user-id or password" link at http://portal.epa.gov.
EPA Employees - Send request directly to Mike Messner. (EPA Employees already have EPA Portal Access, so only need to be added to the Statipedia UserList.)
Or – find the instructions here:
1. Goto https://statipedia.org/wiki/, then2. Click on “Registration Instructions” (near bottom of page)
So…Come join us.
Help us grow the knowledge-base.
With a very small number of active users, you can have a MAJOR impact on how this develops.
Make Statipedia yours.
Links Registration instructions:
statipedia.org max.omb.gov/community/display/OMB/Statipedia
Statipedia: wiki.epa.gov/statipedia Government & private-sector social media policies:
http://govsocmed.pbworks.com/w/page/15060450/Web%202%200%20Governance%20Policies%20and%20Best%20Practices
Twitter (“Attention @AmstatNews: Today #Statipedia opens its doors to non-fed experts. Instructions at http://bit.ly/HrNa37 #statistics”) Hashtag: #Statipedia Mike Messner: @mjmessner
Today’s presentation on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/mjmessner/herriot-award-lecture-2012-12504163