Cosima Meyer

Women in Data Science is a worldwide initiative that brings female speakers together to give insights into the newest developments in data science ranging from academia to industry and to support women in the field.

The event was co-hosted by SAP Next-Gen, Stanford University, and the University of Mannheim.

Text data provides an oasis of information for both researchers and non-researchers alike to explore. Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods help make sense of this difficult data type. The talk and code gave a smooth introduction to the quanteda package. I also showcased how to quickly visualize your text data and cover both supervised and unsupervised approaches in NLP. As part of the code demo, we used text data from the UN as a working example to give you first insights into the structure of text data and how to work with it.

Text data provides an oasis of information for both researchers and non-researchers alike to explore. Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods help make sense of this difficult data type. The talk and code gave a smooth introduction to the quanteda package. I also showcased how to quickly visualize your text data and cover both supervised and unsupervised approaches in NLP. As part of the code demo, we used text data from the UN as a working example to give you first insights into the structure of text data and how to work with it.

China is on the rise in global politics, especially due to their increasing influence in sub-Saharan Africa. How does this affect other states that are invested in this region? My co-author, Dennis Hammerschmidt, and I argue that, as China enters the aid donor market with largely unconditional aid, it offers an attractive alternative to the highly conditional US aid. As a result, we expect that the increased leverage from the US as a sole (main) provider of foreign aid allows sub-Saharan African states both to become more critical of US foreign politics and ultimately leads to a shift in expressed policy preferences, away from the US and more toward China. To detect directed criticism, we use natural language processing (NLP) and more specifically sentiment analysis.

The POLTEXT (now COMPTEXT) is an international conference where researchers present cutting-edge research in the field of computational social sciences.

The 90 minutes workshop introduced participants to the intuitive use of LaTeX with Overleaf and presented an easily accessible template.
The Social Science Data Lab brings computational social scientists together to present forward-thinking methods in this forum.

This workshop was co-hosted with Dennis Hammerschmidt.

Research produces fascinating findings. But it is often difficult to present them to a broader audience beyond the research paper. Shiny apps offer researchers (both in academia and business) sophisticated tools to generate web applications that make the results accessible, understandable, and interactive. The talk will guide you through the necessary steps to set up your own ShinyApp and discuss lessons learned from building a ShinyApp using Shiny for R, shinydashboards, and echarts4r.

Research produces fascinating findings. But it is often difficult to present them to a broader audience beyond the research paper. Shiny apps offer researchers (both in academia and business) sophisticated tools to generate web applications that make the results accessible, understandable, and interactive. The talk will guide you through the necessary steps to set up your own ShinyApp and discuss lessons learned from building a ShinyApp using Shiny for R, shinydashboards, and echarts4r.

Women in Data Science is a worldwide initiative that brings female speakers together to give insights into the newest developments in data science ranging from academia to industry and to support women in the field.

The event was co-hosted by IBM, Stanford University, WUMAN, and the University of Mannheim.