CIRSS Seminar: Elizabeth Wickes

Elizabeth Wickes

Lecturer Elizabeth Wickes will lead a session on "What Happens When Your Data Aren’t Numbers?"

 

Abstract: Many researchers and analysts work with data heavily populated with text, or are loosely structured text, and images. Many tutorials, training, and packages presume a purely numerical world, or ignore the transformations necessary for preparing this kind of data for numerical analysis. This talk will focus on highlighting the transformation pathways for this kind of data, exploring the consequences of not including this kind of data in tutorials, and suggestions for understanding the needs of these data projects.

[Reprise of a PyData Ann Arbor talk in December 2019.]

Wickes teaches programming, data curation, and information technology courses. She was previously a data curation specialist for the Research Data Service at the University Library and the curation manager for Wolfram|Alpha. She currently co-organizes the Champaign-Urbana Python user group, has been a Carpentries instructor since 2015, trainer since 2017, an elected member of The Carpentries’ Executive Council for 2018-2020, and serves as Chair of the Executive Council for 2020.

Questions? Contact Janet Eke