Former BIDS Data Science Fellow Laura K. Nelson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. Laura uses computational methods and open source tools - principally automated text analysis - to study social movements, culture, gender, institutions, and organizations. She is particularly interested in developing computational tools that can bolster the way social scientists do inductive and theory-driven research. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and she also holds an MA from UC Berkeley and a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. While at UC Berkeley, she was a postdoctoral fellow with Digital Humanities @ Berkeley, developing a course for undergraduates on computational text analysis in the humanities and social sciences.
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Laura K. NelsonDecember 10, 2020 / 11:00am to December 12, 2020 / 12:00pm
February 28, 2020 / 12:45pm to 2:00pm
July 8, 2016 / 9:00am to 10:30am
March 10, 2016 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm
February 9, 2016