Data Science Friday Seminar: Mining Social Media for News
November 22, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Mānoa Campus, 103 Keller Hall
Topic: Mining Social Media for News
Speaker: Dr. Mark Menor
Today, the impact of social media on society is obvious. Social media influences politics and moves financial markets. The ubiquity of mobile devices has led to citizens, such as eyewitnesses, to becoming a growing source of breaking news. Being aware of breaking events immediately is extremely valuable to journalists or to traders if the news could affect an equity or the market in general. But sifting through the ocean of social media to find actual relevant breaking news in real-time is challenging. With the use case of breaking news discovery, we will explore the basic concepts of natural language processing like named entity recognition and sentiment analysis that are core to analyzing text data. As the internet is a minefield of misinformation, vital techniques to model the credibility of social media sources will be discussed. Finally we will explore some of the recent research in event detection and my personal experience working in the area.
Event Sponsor
Hawai‘i Data Science Institute, Mānoa Campus
More Information
(808) 956-3503, mduman@hawaii.edu, http://datascience.hawaii.edu
Friday, November 22
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9:00am |
Delightful Dish Gardens with Susan Beers & Leslie Almeida
Mānoa Campus, Lyon Arboretum (3860 Manoa Rd)
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9:30am |
Student Employee of the Year Craft Fair & Silent Auction
Mānoa Campus, Queen Liliuokalani Center for Student Services Lanai
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11:00am |
GenAction Condom Flower Making
Mānoa Campus, Campus Center 310
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11:00am |
UH School of Law Entrepreneurship and Small Business Clinic
Mānoa Campus, BusAd E402
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11:30am |
Aloha Fridays with Student Parents At Manoa (SP@M)
Mānoa Campus, Queen Liliuokalani Center for Student Services, Room 412
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11:30am |
Opportunities and Options: Is There a Fulbright in Your Future?
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 106 Events Room
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2:00pm |
CIS Dissertation Defense
Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library, Room 3F
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3:00pm |
Data Science Friday Seminar: Mining Social Media for News
Mānoa Campus, 103 Keller Hall
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3:00pm |
Aloha Aina Fridays-Moolelo aku, Moolelo mai: Dialogue circle around aloha aina
Mānoa Campus, Hawaii Hall Quad Grassy Area
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3:30pm |
Earth Sciences Seminar
Mānoa Campus, POST 723
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5:00pm |
Ho'okaulike: Equity & Social Justice in Aloha 'Åina Movements
Mānoa Campus, Queen Lili'uokalani Center #412
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7:30pm |
The Moors
Mānoa Campus, Earle Ernst Lab Theatre
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