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If you would like to attend, please contact Nina McCullagh

Description. The massive growth of readily available data in the form of text has challenged our ability to mine and analyze this information effectively, whether for purposes of advancing social science, providing business intelligence, understanding legal frameworks, or improving public policy.  Because of the semi-structured nature of text and the complexity of natural language, devising valid and reliable methods for extracting value from textual data presents enormous challenges.  Text analytics as a field has made tremendous advances in computational, automated, and statistical methods, yet the art and science of summarizing these findings through visualisation remains underdeveloped.  In this workshop we aim to bring together experts in text analysis to share knowledge, best practice, and tools and techniques for text analysis visualisations, including novel interactive visualizations that  facilitate data exploration.

Details. 

 

The workshop will consist of five key elements:

  • Keynote addresses, from authorities in text analytics and visualization

  • Panel sessions, where participants present ongoing research or describe methods, followed by questions and answers and discussion

  • Roundtable sessions, where a group of panelists discuss a theme, followed by active discussion with the audience

  • Social activities for networking

  • A Text Visualization “Hackathon Challenge”, where on 21 March 2016 (48 hours prior to the commencement of the workshop) a corpus of texts will be posted on the workshop website with instructions. Any interested participant may enter, with the contest culminating in short presentations of visualization entries at the close of the workshop, followed by audience votes for the best visualizations in categories of effective communication, aesthetics, and technical difficulty. The winning entries will be awarded £100 amazon voucher, and all entries will be posted on the workshop website following the workshop’s conclusion. See details of the text corpus: http://www.textasdata.com/2016/03/visualization-workshop-hackathon-challenge/

The workshop will also include a tour and demonstration of the KPMG Data Observatory in the Data Science Institute of Imperial College, London.

We welcome academics, researchers, industry practitioners and PhD students to attend. Please get in touch with us if you would like to attend. There is no cost to attend
Agenda

23rd March 13:00 – 18:20 (Imperial College London) 

13:00 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45 – 14:00 Opening remarks 

14:00 – 14:45 Keynote 1: Francisco De Sousa Webber (Cortical.io) “Natural Language Processing beyond word-count statistics”

14:45 – 15:45 Tours of the KPMG Data Observatory

15:45 – 16:30 Panel Discussion: Tools for Text Visualization

  • Chair: Mark Kennedy (Imperial College Business School)

  • Professor Francesca Toni (Department of Computing, Imperial College London)

  • Dr Miguel Molina-Solana (Data Science Institute, Imperial College London)

  • Aida Rodriguez (Customer Analytics and Research, Financial Times)

16:30 – 16:40 Coffee

16:40 – 17:25  Keynote 2: Kenneth Benoit (LSE) “Beyond Word Clouds: Effective Communication of Text Analysis through Visualizations”  

17:25 – 17:35 Description of the Text Visualization Hackathon Challenge

17:35 – 18:30 Social reception

 

Thursday 24 March 2016

(LSE Thai Theatre, New Academic Building)

08:30 – 09:00 Breakfast outside Thai Theatre

09:00 – 10:30 Panel Session 1

  • Nick Beauchamp (Northeastern University, NULab for Text, Maps and Networks, and Department of Political Science) “Visualizing and Modeling Rhetorical Structures in Individual Documents”

  • Stephan Ludwig (University of Westminster, Marketing and Communications) “More than Words: The needs, approaches and implications of text mining for business”

  • Wouter van Atteveldt (University of Amsterdam), £Visualize your corpus with R: Why word clouds aren’t always stupid”

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:30 Panel Session 2

  • Mennatallah El-Assady (University of Konstanz), TBA

  • Armand Leroi (ICL), TBA

  • Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, (LSE) TBA

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Keynote 3 – Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, Director of the National Centre for Text Mining), TBA

14:00 – 15:00 Session: Tools Workshop

  • Valentin Gold

  • Nick Beauchamp

  • Ken Benoit

  • Wouter van Atteveldt – AmCAT and R

Relocation to the LSE PhD Academy, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Library Building (access via 10 Portugal Street)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30 Presentation of Visualizations from Hackathon Challenge and Awarding of Prizes

 


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