ALEXA PAVLIUC – Medium

Published in Towards Data Science

·Sep 25, 2020

DisInfoVis: How to Understand Networks of Disinformation Through Visualization

Data visualization has great potential for communicating complexity with clarity, but this requires iteration, empathy and tailoring to specific data and domains. — Network visualizations of disinformation operations have the power to enlighten. When effectively designed they can express the nuanced strategies of those spreading disinformation. These dense forms of data visualization benefit from informed design choices throughout their development, and evaluations that improve future iterations.

Data Visualization

11 min read

DisInfoVis: How to Understand Networks of Disinformation Through Visualization

Published in The Startup

·Jan 26, 2020

Watch six decade-long disinformation operations unfold in six minutes

Here’s a bird’s eye view of six state-backed information operations on Twitter, and how they evolved over the last decade. This research was funded by the Mozilla Foundation by an Open Source Support Award. I remember the moment when I found out that Twitter had released millions of tweets that…

Disinformation

11 min read

Mar 7, 2019

Becoming Data Scientist: MSc Semester 1

Taking an MSc in Data Science means you’re not allowed to pick a niche — until you’ve tried it all. Of all the ways one can become a data scientist these days, a year ago I decided to take the deep dive into an MSc in Data Science at City…

Data Science

6 min read

Published in CBC Digital Labs

·Jul 18, 2018

How I found my own research path & created my own tools

How do Canadians go through shared national experiences together as a country, with the CBC and more importantly, not with the CBC? That little black area is the point that I was hired to try to pin down. …

Canada

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How I found my own research path & created my own tools

Published in CBC Digital Labs

·Jun 4, 2018

1,082 YouTube videos and an algorithm under scrutiny: Inside our Ontario election research project

What are Canadians seeing when they watch videos about the Ontario election on YouTube? This was the question we posed after poring over the results of an exhaustive research study of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. For background, I’m a Research Analyst at CBC examining how Canadians go through shared national experiences…

Journalism

6 min read

1,082 YouTube videos and an algorithm under scrutiny: Inside our Ontario election research project