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# Maya Anderson-González, FLOSS meets Social Science Research, FOSDEM 2021 Maya introduces her talk on how free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) meets social science research, opening with the quote often attributed to Henry Ford—"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"—to illustrate users' inability to convey their needs to innovators. She notes this is the opposite of how open source development and open research grow: by valuing and promoting user feedback toward community-oriented goals. ## 0:38 The speaker introduces herself as Maya and says she will talk about how floss meets social science research and lives to tell the tale. She begins with a quote: if people had been asked what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. ## 0:53 The speaker introduces herself as Maya and frames the talk around how free/libre and open source software (floss) meets social science research. She opens with the quote often attributed to Henry Ford—"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"—used to illustrate users' inability to convey their needs to innovators. She notes this is the opposite of how open source development and open research grow and improve: by valuing and promoting user feedback to reach community-oriented goals. ## 1:34 I'll share experiences as a user of FLOSS tools for open research in social science. Specifically, I'll talk about a team project I worked on to produce and analyze a Twitter follow graph of last year's FOSDEM and Chaos Con participants. — CC BY 2.0 BE
Spoken notes · 4:39
The speaker uses an opening anecdote to introduce the technical and value-based challenges of being a FLOSS tools user in a social science setting. On the technical side, the first challenge is that the speaker does not know how to code. This meant they did not exploit Torque to the fullest or use its Python library programmatically, and had to rely on a third party to build the network that was eventually imported into Gephi.
The real Markdown export of the FOSDEM 2021 demo talk (CC BY 2.0 BE), one section per page. This document is the study guide.
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