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Concerns Around Opposition to the Green Pass in Italy: Social Listening Analysis by Using a Mixed Methods Approach
What’s the opposite of active social listening? Well, you write it ‘passive social listening’, but you read it ‘spying on people’. Is it doable? Yes. Is it ethical? Meh. This little friday project explores the possibilities, the impact, and the ethical implications of mixed-methods passive social listening of no-green-pass groups. The methods are cool, but…
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A Novel Risk and Crisis Communication Platform to Bridge the Gap Between Policy Makers and the Public in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis (PubliCo): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study
Here we invented something new, useful, and cool. Nice combination, I like it. Let’s say there’s a public health emergency of some sort. Let’s say you are a policy maker, a ministry man, or some other cool person wearing cool suits or tailleurs and having to make choices, sometimes hard choices. How useful would it…
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The TSL machine: parser, lemma analysis, sentiment analysis and autocoding for Telegram chats
Have you read the ‘passive social listening’ paper? Well, this is the sw I developed for that study. Feel free to use it (conscientiously). With great power comes great responsibility. The purpose of this tool is performing NLP analysis on Telegram chats. Telegram chats can be exported as .json files from the official client, Telegram…
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Lemmas and Named Entities analysis in major media outlets regarding Switzerland and Covid-19
What was on the media in Switzerland during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic? What were they talking about, money or ICU beds? Well, if you want to find the answer, it’s in this dataset, waiting to be dug out. Help yourself! This dataset, generated with an ad-hoc parser and NLP pipeline, analyzes the frequency of lemmas…
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Factiva parser and NLP pipeline for news articles related to COVID-19
This bit of code was written quick and dirty to parse news articles retrieved from Dow Jones’ Factiva and feed them in a simple NLP pipeline. It works, it was fun to develop it, use it, recycle parts of the code, have fun 🙂 Parser: Takes as input files numerically ordered in a folder. This…
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COVID-19 and the ethics of quarantine: a lesson from the Eyam plague
The Eyam Plague has been a dreadfully fascinating epidemic. The first response to plague epidemics in the seventeenth century was often quarantine, a measure detested by those who were subjected to it, and often violently opposed. In Eyam, however, things took a different turn: the parish priest William Mompesson persuaded the local population about the need…
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Making sense in the flood. How to cope with the massive flow of digital information in medical ethics
This little paper discusses the (over)proliferation of academic publications and the impossibility of keeping pace with new literature. I define the issue and present a set of easily usable methodological strategies to cope with the flood. PS: maybe a bit less easy to use, but much more fun&powerful: The Mighty TopicTracker AbstractScientific publications have become the…
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[The influence of consent models, donor registries and relatives’ decision on organ donation. An assessment of the current literature] Der Einfluss von Zustimmungsmodellen, Spenderegistern und Angehörigen- Entscheid auf die Organspende. Eine Beurteilung der aktuellen Literatur
This is my first work after moving in Switzerland, and I am proud of it as it helped structuring a referendum, approved by the Swiss, that has effectively changed how organ donation works here. Being a report for the federal office of public health, it’s in German. Background: In Switzerland, the political pressure for a…