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This page is a companion to a guest lecture prepared for ARCH 3819/ARCH5819.
Please do bring a laptop! If you have one, bring your own. If you do not have one, please feel free to check one out at the Olin circulation desk. Having a laptop will allow you to participate in the exercises and get the most out of classexplorations and make discussion more meaningful.
No special software will be needed. All exercises explorations will be done through a Web browser, without any special plugins.
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Discussion of terms
There will be a short discussion where we define terms (at least loosely) , that should give us a common language as we experience, discuss and critique simple text mining algorithms and the strategies they employfor our discussion and critique of these tools and their strategies.
Explorations
All analysis tools will be demonstrated; no prior knowledge of any tools will be required. The room is equipped with video input to allow easy sharing of your desktop on the screen, so if you discover something that you would like to share and discuss, we can easily do so.
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