Lunch and Learn: Approaching Data Across the Disciplines
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12pm
About this Event
245 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdovYdkYnaQZv6qjufrs2rxer_7XmZI4_XKBNjihEgScx2gjw/viewformThis informal lunchtime seminar series is aimed at sharing methodological approaches and building collaborative, data-focused teams for research in the social sciences and humanities. Through presentations from faculty members and graduate students, this series will promote the cross-disciplinary dissemination of research methods, foster collaboration in the exploration of large-scale data sets, and build the skill sets of faculty and graduate students.
The series will meet monthly in the Schiller Convening Space, Rm 501 in 245 Beacon. The Schiller Institute will provide lunch. Each seminar will run from 12:00 to 1:15. Faculty, post-docs, and graduate students are invited.
Tuesday, February 21: Masha Krupenkin (Poli Sci) and Saber Khani (Sociology):
Methods/Data Type; Application:
- Cell mobility data; Measuring the effect of Covid on economic activity
- Web-scraping; Creating a database of faculty interests, and scraping news outlets