The Internet Governance Lab, in support of the 2020 International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) International Girls in ICT Day (#GirlsInICT), presents:
Women Who Code: Big Data Analytics and Text Mining in R and RStudio
In support of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its 2020 International Girls in ICT Day (#GirlsinICT) the Internet Governance Lab (IGL) at American University, in Washington, D.C., has organized this globally distributed session on Women Who Code: Big Data Analytics and Text Mining in R. We will discuss the growing importance of big data analytics broadly speaking, and text analytics in particular. We will demonstrate the power of coding in the open source data analytics language R, programming in the free RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and highlight a range of packages that substantially extend the capabilities of R. This session will begin with a discussion of R, and how to install it; and then move to installing RStudio and relevant packages. We will provide an overview of writing code in R. Then, we will present a series of project presentations by female researchers who use R for data analytics.
The session is organized by IGL Faculty Director Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn, Professor of Information Technology and Analytics and International Communication in the Kogod School of Business and School of International Service at American University, and Executive Director of the AU Institute on Disability and Public Policy. Our lineup of project presenters includes:
Ms. Yujia Wan
IDPP Research Associate, Masters of International Affairs, School of International Service
Topic: “What’s Behind the Great Firewall? Differences between Baidu and Google in Searching Results”
Ms. Sana Naz
IDPP Research Associate, MS Analytics, Department of Information Technology and Analytics, Kogod School of Business
Topic: “Data Analytics and Predictive Modeling in R”
Ms. Dana Meyers
Masters of International Affairs, School of International Service
Topic: ”Key Issues in 2020 US Presidential Campaigns: Comparing Professed Themes to Actual Messaging on Twitter”
Ms. Sofia Schmidt
Masters of U.S. Foreign Policy & National Security, School of International Service
Topic: “Identifying Push Factors in Northern Triangle Migrant Interviews”
Ms. Chelsea L. Horne
Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Literature at American University; Doctoral Program, School of Communication; Faculty Fellow, Internet Governance Lab
Topic: “Governing Truth: An Analysis of “Post-Truth” Discussions of “Fake News” at IGF”
The session will be held on Thursday, 23 April 2020, from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. It will use the Zoom webconferencing platform. To participate, please use the following url: https://tinyurl.com/IGL-GirlsInICT-2020. #GirlsinICT