Category Archives: Session: Talk

Proposal for a session in which you offer to lead a group discussion on a topic or question of interest.

TALK/MAKE – What are the odds: Big data meets political science and they go to the races

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Stephen Lindsay

‘What are the odds?’ (WATO) was an interdisciplinary collaboration between political scientists and human-computer interaction researchers at Swansea University to try to bring elements of big data to the world of political forecasting. The project used page scraping to gather … Continue reading →

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TALK/PLAY – TextLab Project in Practice

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Rebecca Russell

TextLab is a Vertically Integrated Project at the University of Strathclyde involving students from the English Literature department and the Computer & Information Science department. We use tools like: AntConc (www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/), a freeware text analysis toolkit for concordancing and text … Continue reading →

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