[Event Information]
「GSDM Interactive Evening Lounge」
19th Feb,2016 18:00-20:00 (Eng.Bld.#8-536, Hongo Campus)

2016/02/10

“What kinds of quantitative evidence can we acquire from a huge amount of qualitative data?: An example of text mining methods”

Date : 2016, 19th of February (Friday)　18pm-20pm
Venue : Eng.Bld.#8-536, Hongo CampusMAP

Background
These days we frequently encounter the words “big data” and “artificial intelligence.” In this IEL, we will show you an example how we use text mining methods to analyze big data of texts. Also, we will show you how we can draw a quantitative evidence from qualitative information (i.e. text data). This part is a report on our Student Initiative Project (SIP).

In the latter part of the IEL, we will hold a workshop. The workshop is designed to let the diverse body of the GSDM students and non-GSDM students to interact each other. The goal of the workshop is to come up with good seeds of interdisciplinary hypotheses of future text mining research. The workshop is Innovators Marketplace on Data Jackets style, that Ohsawa laboratory invented.

Contents
1st part : Our report on text mining analysis with huge text data
2nd part : Workshop on the applicability of the text mining methods in the field of public policy