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Applications of Big Data to Social Sciences

Name: Applications of Big Data to Social Sciences
Start: 2018-05-22T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-05-24T23:59:59+01:00
Location: Glamorgan Building, University of Cardiff

22nd May 2018 - 24th May 2018

Course Code	HUB-08-17/18-P-R
Organised by	NCRM, University of Southampton
Presenter	Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes
Date	22/05/2018 – 24/05/2018
Venue	Glamorgan Building, University of Cardiff, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff
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Contact	Jacqui Thorp Training and Capacity Building Co-ordinator NCRM, University of Southampton Tel: 02380594069 Email: [email protected]
Description	Researchers are now faced with the possibility of deriving insights from digital data sources to gain understanding of the social world. Through illustrations of applied research that rely on social data science, this course discusses methodological aspects of design, measurement and analysis of large textual datasets. Working mainly with social media and sms data, the participants will have access to teaching datasets to learn how to capture, prepare and analyse textual data. The analytical techniques employed combine qualitative frameworks based on coding and annotation with more automatic approaches based in clustering and classification, including sentiment and topic models. Ethical aspects related to privacy, agency, representation and legitimacy will be considered throughout the course. The course covers: Preparation and visualisation of textual data Quantitative methods of text analysis, including mining social media Methods for combining big data with traditional data Ethical frameworks for access and analysis of big datasets By the end of the course participants will: appreciate the merit of combining traditional and big data to address social research problems articulate methodological and ethical issues of social research using big data have a good understanding of different approaches to analyse and visualise structured and unstructured textual data Pre-requisites: Basic understanding of probability and statistics. Basic understanding of regression analysis and factor analysis
Level	Intermediate (some prior knowledge)
Cost	The fee per teaching day is: • £30 per day for UK/EU registered students • £60 per day for staff at UK/EU academic institutions, UK/EU Research Councils researchers, UK/EU public sector staff and staff at UK/EU registered charity organisations and recognised UK/EU research institutions. • £220 per day for all other participants All fees include event materials, lunch, morning and afternoon tea. They do not include travel and accommodation costs. You can cancel for a full refund up to two weeks prior to the course. After this time no refund is available.
Website and registration	http://go.soton.ac.uk/9aa
Region	Wales
Keywords	Textual Analysis, Social Network Analysis, Social Media Analysis , , Big Data
Related publications and presentations	Textual Analysis Social Network Analysis

Details

Start:: 22nd May 2018
End:: 24th May 2018
Website:: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=8055

Venue

: Glamorgan Building, University of Cardiff