Numerical Analysis Seminar

Speaker: 
Kang Pyo Lee
Topic: 
"Introduction to data analytics and social media analytics"

Abstract:
More and more researchers on the University of Iowa campus are getting interested in data analysis for various reasons and thus are eager to learn data analytics. As a former data scientist at Samsung Big Data Center and a current staff data scientist at the University of Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3), the presenter will introduce the basic concepts around what we call data analytics. He will then introduce social media analytics as an interesting application area of data analytics. Lastly, he will demonstrate how Twitter data can actually be leveraged for research on latest trends and people’s opinions.

Event Date: 
November 28, 2017 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
71 SH
Calendar Category: 
Seminar