Cody Hennessy, UC Berkeley
Slides are available here: http://conferences.infotoday.com/documents/259/A204_Hennesy(1).pptx
Not exactly my line of work, but interesting.
Group of people at UC Berkeley who do or are interested in text analysis/text mining/distant reading (as opposed to close reading). Hennessy attends so he can learn and advise (for example, not to download the whole Proquest database, because it’s copyrighted and that would be a violation of the university’s license agreement).
The Congressional Record is a favorite source, because it’s in the public domain and includes both spoken and written text.
Another blog post on this session: http://www.libconf.com/2016/10/19/computational-text-analysis-k-text-mining/
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