Text as Data

Overview

Attendees will learn about generative AI tools for working with text data, including creating and analyzing data from a variety of sources; discussion of benefits, capabilities, and challenges including how to assess bias. Hands-on exercises focused on real-world examples using text data. Instructor Dr. Mark Hansen was the inaugural director for the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation and is a data scientist at Columbia University working at the intersection of data, art and technology. His work has appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum, and the lobby of the New York Times.