<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Dear Pythonista's,<br><br></font><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.428571em">I'm doing my masters thesis at the Technical University of Vienna on finding experts on Stackoverflow and need users to complete some surveys to get results for the research. If you have a Stackoverflow account it would be great if you could participate. It will only take a few minutes.</span><br><br clear="none"><strong style="line-height:1.428571em">Nature of the research</strong><br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.428571em">Briefly, the research aims to see if we can apply an algorithm/model to identify and measure experts in Stackoverflow. The algorithm focuses on machine learning techniques, network algorithms and statistical measures. </span><span style="line-height:1.428571em">Additionally, the research identifies users expertise fields through matching tags to an ontology (an organized hierarchy of fields) and poses the question whether it's possible to measure different levels of expertise, for example if a person has expertise in Java, then it is assumed they have expertise in Object Oriented Programming. </span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong style="line-height:1.428571em">How the survey relates to the research?</strong><br clear="none">The user survey is necessary to see how well the developed algorithm performs in terms of reliability and validity and if a correlation exists between the users results and the algorithm. The survey identifies some tags which you often contribute to and different levels of fields, for example if you have a tag in Java, then we want to know your level of expertise is in Object Oriented Programming.<br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br clear="none"><strong style="line-height:1.428571em">Results and Findings</strong><br clear="none">All data is kept private and confidential. The data will only used for the research.<br clear="none">We will send you a follow up email after the research is finished about the results and findings.</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong style="line-height:1.428571em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Participate</font></strong></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The survey takes just a few minutes online, we simply ask you to score your level of expertise from 0 (No knowledge of the subject) to 100 (Top level expert) for some given tags you commonly participated in on Stackoverflow. Visit the survey page at: <a href="http://techscreen.tuwien.ac.at:9050/" shape="rect" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(4,122,198);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em">http://techscreen.tuwien.ac.at:9050</a> </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.428571em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong style="line-height:1.428571em">Questions<br clear="none"></strong>If you have any questions about the research or the survey please write an email to Lucas Gerrand at <a href="mailto:e1228404@student.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">e1228404@student.tuwien.ac.at</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thank you for your time. We appreciate your participation in the research. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Kind Regards, </font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" class=""></font></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lucas Gerrand<br></font><span style="line-height:1.428571em"><a href="mailto:e1228404@student.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">e1228404@student.tuwien.ac.at</font></a></span></font></font></span></div>
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