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Computational Methods Group Meetings, Spring 2019

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Computational Methods will meet every week at 3:30 PM in Grainger Hall for its Spring 2019 courses (listed below).

Date Topic Tools Teacher
1-Feb Text Analysis II – quanteda quanteda (R) Josephine
8-Feb CANCELLED (Flooding)
15-Feb Reporting Results – LaTeX LateX Chuan
22-Feb Intro to Python, Syntax and Data Structures pandas (Python) Zhongkai
1-Mar Unsupervised ML – LDA Topic Modeling topicmodels (R) Jiyoun
8-Mar Crossroads – No Meeting
15-Mar Unsupervised ML – Structural Topic Modeling stm (R) Chuan
22-Mar Spring Break – No Meeting
29-Mar No Meeting
5-Apr Network Analysis igraph, ggnet (R) Yini
12-Apr No Meeting
19-Apr SQL and/or BigQuery TBA
26-Apr Machine Learning mlr (R), possibly a Python package Zhongkai and Josephine
3-May Advanced NLP ClearNLP (R) Josephine

For more on the Computational Methods group, please visit our website.

Best,

Josephine Lukito
Computational Methods Lead

Computational Methods Group Meetings, Spring 2018

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Computational Methods will meet every other week at 3:30 PM in the MCRC lab this semester (Spring 2018). This semester, we will be focusing on natural language processing and machine learning strategies and will have stand-along workshops for a multitude of other programs. Scheduled workshops include:

2/2/2018 – tidytext (R package), taught by Josephine Lukito

2/16/2018 – SQL Workshop, taught by Research Data Services

3/16/2018 – LaTeX workshop, taught by Chuan Liu

4/13/2018 – LDA Topic Modeling using topicmodels (R package), taught by Josephine Lukito

4/27/2018 – Structural Topic Modeling using stm (R package), taught by Chuan Liu

5/4/2018 – Leximancer workshop, taught by Josephine Lukito

Hope to see you all at one (or more) of our workshops!

 

Best,

Josephine Lukito

Computational Methods Lead