Workshop CCR2015 Kicked Off

Workshop CCR2015 Kicked Off

Four members of the Lab are teaching in a 3-day workshop on Computational Communication Research (CCR2015) in June 18-20 at City University of Hong Kong, organized by Web Mining Lab in Department of Media & Communication and supported by Global China Studies in College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. The CCR2015 Workshop builds on the successful Workshop on Web Mining in 2014, by providing training on major approaches and tools of computational social science for communication research. A review of R programming was provided yesterday by Hai Liang. This morning, Jonathan Zhu kicked off the workshop with a lecture on the design and analysis on CCR, followed by Hai Liang on web data collection and storage, Zhenzhen Wang on text data processing and mining, and Jie Qin on data visualization in the remaining sessions. All lectures will be a mix between conceptual discussion and hands-on practices, using R language as the primary tool for most sessions. 2015CCR involves 52 participants worldwide, including faculty members, graduate students, and media professionals from the U.S, Europe, Singapore, Bangladesh, Mainland China and Hong Kong.