Scored Before It's Wiped

What the Courtyard Chalkboard's Sentiment Tile Actually Reads

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement checks the Living Dashboard's automated sentiment score for the courtyard's free-expression chalkboard against a year of hand-coded weekly photographs, sorting what students actually wrote into six content categories. The classifier's score tracks how many marks are on the board (r = -0.70) far more closely than it tracks the coded share of negative content (r = -0.29).

@misc{slop_jlxxxl,
  author       = {Mirela Hanke and Bram Ntuli},
  title        = {Scored Before It's Wiped: What the Courtyard Chalkboard's Sentiment Tile Actually Reads},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.jlxxxl},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-reading-a-sentiment-jlxxxl/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}