Week 5-week 6
During this period, I conducted the most difficult course of this semester – data science of society. In the intensive days of this course, the main work of the whole team is visualization. The theme of our group is conflicts. We first studied different types of conflicts and their frequency in various countries. We found that protest has the highest frequency and frequency.
On this basis, we try to explore the factors that affect the number of tests in various countries and the reasons for the occurrence of tests. I am very happy that although this course mainly uses the method of data visualization, the text mining course learned in the first semester has also helped me a lot. I used the method of text extraction to analyze the specific reasons for the occurrence of tests in various countries. It is a great pleasure for me to be able to integrate the things learned in different courses to complete my analysis homework. It makes me feel that each course is no longer a separate part but a whole that can be connected with each other.
I have made some new progress on my final project. But I’m worried about whether the topic I’m discussing is too sensitive. I want to discuss the inequality caused by the political nature of social media in China. This will involve many sensitive political issues in China, such as Xinjiang. Moreover, there are not many data in this part, and data collection will also be difficult. Based on the strong privacy of China’s social media platform, it is not easy to obtain statistics. But I’m really interested in this topic. After further communication with Juli, I hope there can be some new progress.
Hope everyone have a nice week!
Hey Genna, it’s great to hear you are enjoying the data science of society course, this is on my potential list for next year to study so it’s good to hear that other people have liked it! It’s also great to hear that the learnings from one course to another are starting to overlap 🙂
With your project – excuse my ignorance here, but I’m really interested to know more about what you mean by the political nature of social media in China. Do you mean that it is controlled by policies and the government, or do you mean that the content online is political? I didn’t know that privacy was so strong in China that it means data isn’t easily available – is that good for the users (and just bad for research) or does it also mean that users don’t get access to certain information?