Create a Clean List of Tasks and Sources #381
Description
Currently, we have 102 tasks, and they come from many different papers and sources. We need a way to cleanly display a table of these tasks, as well as a working URL of where they come from.
This would look something like this:
| Task Name | Citation | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Task 1 | (Doe 2007) | journal.com/abc |
| Task 2 | (Smith 1998) | journal.net/123 |
Currently, information about the task sources is scattered in a bunch of different places:
- We have the original list of tasks (kept in a spreadsheet, here, on the 'Task list' tab): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r6JphHOM8K_dCrdX9ESx_05oYGtPVyVejxKBL1B3VL0/edit#gid=1644218186
- We also have citations on the individual GitHub pages under 'Original Task Writeups': https://github.com/Watts-Lab/task-mapping/tree/master/tasks/original-task-writeups
Unfortunately, it's not easy to merge everything because task names have evolved significantly over time. For example, as we have cleaned up tasks from the original list, we have realized that some writeups actually contain one or more distinct tasks, and we ended up creating separate writeups for each one. Examples include the Railroad Route Construction Game (there are two versions); Carter Racing (there are also two versions); the Iterated Snowdrift Game (there are also two versions); and Estimating Factual Quantities (which used to be called 'Forecasting and Estimation in Groups with Confidence'). Therefore, names do not match perfectly, and information needs to be manually merged and confirmed.
What we need to do
- We need to go through both the original list of tasks and the original task writeups, and extract the citation + a working link for each task.
- Instead of linking to the original GitHub writeup, we should make sure that the task writeups display the citation and source. This is an issue already described in: Paper URLS in task MDs #373
- We should display the name of each of our 102 tasks, plus the citation and source, in a clean table that can be copy/pasted into the appendix of our paper.