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Episode 12: Data Science for Social Media: Twitter and Reddit

Vanishing Gradients

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The Role of Programming for Linguists and Sociolinguists

For sociolinguistics, it was R for data analysis. I actually wrote a paper about social factors that might predict whether people used emojis or they weren't emojis at the time. It wasn't like a very good data set, though, because I was not collecting it in a scalable way. And it made me realize there's tons of language data on the internet.

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