POSTPONED -Data Visualisation Workshop for Critical Computational Discourse

Data Science Institute, Lancaster University

Data Science Institute

One-day data visualisation workshop at Lancaster University's Data  Science Institute open to post-grads and research staff

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Are you a researcher (postgrad or staff) working with large data sets, critical discourse analysis, and/or use tools to analyse and interpret your data? Have you encountered limits of visualising your results?Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) all use computational methods for corpus research, but face similar problems when critically interpreting and subsequently visualising their empirical data.In this one-day workshop, we propose to combine computational methods with critical discourse analysis and integrate a variety of perspectives and disciplinary approaches.The workshop will be divided into two parts: (detailed agenda below) Part 1 (Theoretical &amp; Methodological)First, we will present and critically discuss interdisciplinary perspectives on corpus-based research and critical discourse analysis.We will engage with those different disciplinary approaches to give participants an overview of perspectives with their specific narratives, advantages and disadvantages.Part 2 (Hands-on &amp; Exploratory)In hands-on sessions workshop facilitators and participants will explore different techniques and tools on open source data sets (participants are welcome to bring their own if they would like to work on a specific problem). In particular, we will focus on how to represent changes in discourses over a given time span. To do so, we will explore existing approaches and discuss new methods for the representation of discursive changes over time in longitudinal data sets. Sample data from an ongoing research project will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own data sets. We are open to researchers on different knowledge levels, disciplines and stages to also bring the conversation on tool development and visualisation forward and integrate a variety of perspectives.Agenda :<ul><li>9:30-10:00 Introduction </li></ul><ul><li> 10:00-11:00 Keynote 1: Spatial Humanities - Extracting and visualising data from large historical collections: Challenges from the 16th century Geographic Reports of New Spain - Patricia Murrieta-Flores</li></ul><ul><li>11:00-11:15 Coffee Break </li></ul><ul><li>11:15-12:15 Keynote 2: Recounting media art and net criticism mailing lists (1995-2019) -David Gauthier &amp; Michael Dieter</li></ul> Part 1 (Theoretical &amp; Methodological)<ul><li>12:15-12:45 Discussion </li></ul><ul><li>12:45-13:30 Lunch Break </li></ul><ul><li>13:30-14:00 Introduction to the Applied Sessions </li></ul>Part 2 (Hands-on &amp; Exploratory)<ul><li>14:00-16:00 Applied Session 1: Visualise my Corpus - Mahmoud El-Haj </li><li>14:00-16:00 Applied Session 2: Visualisation Experiments - Luke Murphy &amp; Maxigas</li></ul><ul><li>16:00-16:15 Plenary</li><li>16:15-16:30 Coffee Break </li></ul><ul><li>16:30-17:00 Try Out Session</li><li>17:00-17:30 Grant Writing Session</li></ul>Speakers:Michael Dieter - Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), Warwick UniversityMahmoud El-Haj - Lecturer at Lancaster University specialising on Natural Language Processing (NLP) including corpus and computational linguisticsDavid Gauthier - Lecturer at the Media Studies Department, University of AmsterdamMaxigas - Lecturer at Lancaster University and Amsterdam University specialising on Critical Media DiscourseLuke Murphy - Expert in Computational Methods, Varia Centre for Everyday Technology, RotterdamPatricia Murrieta-Flores - Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Co-director of the Digital Humanities Lab, LUOrganisers:Victoria Neumann, Phd candidate at the School of Computing and Communication, LUMaxigas, Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice at the Department of Sociology, LU &amp; Senior Lecturer at the Media Department, University of Amsterdam The workshop is free of charge (no fees)Vegetarian &amp; Vegan food will be severed at lunch - please let us know if you have any special dietary requirements: dsi@lancaster.ac.uk

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