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Category: Computational Methods Group

Computational Methods Group Meetings, Spring 2019

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

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