Summer Research Camp (2018-07-05) (Orientation Day 3)


During part of this day, the CSUN and UCSB groups will be in video conferencing contact with each other through the Zoom platform. 

 

 

1. Training Workshop (via Zoom link between UCSB and CSUN)

 

Each weekend, WE1S will use the LexisNexis Web Services Kit to batch-collect materials. Then during the following week, teams will analyze the materials using topic modeling (and in future potentially other methods). As the project proceeds, teams will be tasked with addressing a series of questions that are project-wide or specific to a team (e.g., "Do we need to collect based on searching not just for the phrase 'humanities' but also 'liberal arts' and 'the arts'?" "Are we recognizing a meaningful difference between our corpus of materials and a general random corpus?" "Does the U.S. team need to increase or decrease the representation of local newspapers?" "How do we deal with media conglomerates or news services?").

 

Today's workshop provides hands-on training with the following:

 

  1. Queuing collection jobs
  2. Creating topic models
  3. Analyzing results of collection jobs -- An initial plan for analysis work each week is as follows (to be revised as we compare results and suggest improvements):
    1. Generating topic models in the Jupyter notebook Workspace
    2. Examining topic models (with different numbers of topics) in dfr-browser (Signs topic model by Andrew Goldstone)
    3. Examining representative articles in a topic
    4. Addressing specific questions  
    5. Team discussions of results each week to use current results to iterate or refine collection work, and to push forward with new collection work.
    6. Cross-team discussions each week.
    7. Annotating and sharing observations, problems, plans team "lab notebooks" in the project Google Drive space.

 

 

 

2. Prep for AM Team Meetings (before lunch break)

 

          1. U.S. and Canada team (national, regional, and local newspapers) red asterisk

          2. United Kingdom team red asterisk

          3. Asia team (South Asia and Far East) red asterisk

          4. Australia & New Zealand team red asterisk

          5. Mexico, Central, & South America team

          6. Europe team (Western & Eastern Europe)

          7. Mideast & Africa team

          8. Diverse populations team (starting with U.S.)

          9. Alternative politics and media team (starting with U.S.)

          10. Broadcast and Internet media team

 

  asterisk-red-small.gif These areas include Commonwealth nations for which we may need to collect and analyze articles including the phrase “the arts” as well as the phrase “humanities”

 

 


 

2. AM Team Meetings 

 

 

 

 

3. AM Team Triage (via Zoom link between UCSB and CSUN)