Type of session : Play Title: Why is social media hard to analyse? Name of session facilitator: Diana Maynard Approximate duration: 1-2 hours Skill level: beginner Proposal: Tools for analysing tweets and other kinds of social media are everywhere these days, allowing us to understand what kinds of opinions are being expressed and who is talking about what. However, […]
Continue readingType of session: Play Title: A simple tutorial using Open Refine to prepare messy historical data to be mapped in Google Fusion tables. Name of session facilitator(s): Nora Approximate duration: 1-2 hr Skill level: All Proposal: I can walk through a short exercise we did for colleagues at British Library as part of our staff Digital […]
Continue readingType of session : Play Title: Exploring large annotated datasets for interesting information Name of session facilitator: Diana Maynard Approximate duration: 1 hour Skill level: beginner Proposal: Come and play with MIMIR, our tools for semantic search and visualisation of annotated data. Ask complex queries over huge amounts of data. For example: which newspapers talked most positively about Europe […]
Continue readingType of session : Teach/Play Title: Introduction to GATE for text analysis Name of session facilitator: Diana Maynard Approximate duration: 2 hours Skill level: all Proposal: This session will demonstrate the basics of text analysis tasks such as named entity recognition and sentiment analysis with the open source GATE tools. Participants will be able to use […]
Continue readingType of session : PLAY Title : What can you do with this data ?? Name of session facilitator(s) : Geraldine + ? Approximate duration : 2h Skill level : all Proposal One corpus of open data (Text ? CSV ?), five teams. Each uses open source software (limited choice or free ?) to work […]
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