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Meeting (2019-06-27) - Pre-orientation for New RAs in Summer 2019
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by Alan Liu 4 years, 9 months ago
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Meeting Time: 27 June 2019, 1:30 - 3:30 pm (Pacific)
Meeting Location: DAHC (Digital Arts & Humanities Commons) (directions)
Meeting Zoom: We'll use Alan's "instant" Zoom ID (our default meeting Zoom): https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/760-021-1662
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0. Preliminary Business
- Introductions
- Logistical issues
- Copyright assignment forms
- Payroll system
- UCSB payroll and timecard system (Kronos)
- Project collaboration platforms and tools
Purpose of today's meeting
1. Context on the WE1S project
- Project history
- Pilot project, 2013-2017
- Mellon grant, 2017-2020
- Project concept
- study of public discourse on humanities
- open, reproducible digital humanities methods
- analytical and advocacy outputs
- Recent project work
- Collection sources: LexisNexis, Proquest (etc.), Web, social media
- Last year's summer research camp (teams)
- Academic year 2018-2019 teams:
- Primary corpus team
- Identity and Inclusion team
- Corpus comparison team
- Students and Humanities team (& human subjects research team)
- Interpretation lab
- Technical development (Collector, Workspace, Manager)
- Workplan for summer research camp 2019
2. "Reading" Topic Models
- What topic models are.
- What we can expect to get from topic models:
- "Distant reading" of the gross structure of large-corpora discourse (but based on quantitative analysis).
- Understanding of:
- topics as "themes"
- topics as "registers of discourse"
- Guidance on sources and documents to close read.
- Research questions to be addressed using topic models in summer:
- Topic models we will be working with in summer:
- "Topic Model Observatory Tools" we will use:
- "Interpretation Protocol" we will use to observe topic models to answer research questions
3. Example topic model seen through the tools in the WE1S Topic Model Observatory
4. Demo of Interpretation Protocol
Meeting (2019-06-27) - Pre-orientation for New RAs in Summer 2019
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