Course # 30520 The purpose of the class is to provide the public policy student a set of skills that he or she can use in their professional career to compile and analyze unstructured data. If a public policy analyst is asked by the chief of staff to compile everything that is known about managed care for elderly patients, the analyst should be able to mine the available databases on the web to pull out a set of abstracts, data, information, or policy recommendations so that he or she can have report done in hours rather than weeks. If a congressman asks his aid to pull information on earmarks on a particular topic from the United State Public Laws, they should be able to do that in a few hours after taking this class. The first half of the class will include lectures on the importance of the techniques for public policy. Much of the remainder of class will be devoted to teach natural language text processing through a set of weekly exercises. The other focus of the class will be application of that programming to “real” datasets that reflect public policies. The class with jointly create a corpus from publicly available sources. The final weeks of the class will focus on student projects, individual or group, making use of the corpus. These projects will be presented to the entire class and a paper will be required. Recent News More news Announcing the 2024 Stone Center Thesis and Dissertation Award Winners Tue., July 02, 2024 Harris Voices: Viviana Martinez, CLA'20, on What It Means to "Crown Up" Tue., July 02, 2024 Natasha Mathur, MSCAPP’19, on the Connection Between the Real World and Data Tue., June 25, 2024 Upcoming Events More events Harris Campus Visit Wed., July 10, 2024 | 10:00 AM Keller Center 1307 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637 United States Harris Evening Master's Program Information Session Wed., July 10, 2024 | 12:00 PM Harris Summer Mixer in Washington, DC: Cultivating Policy Connections Wed., July 10, 2024 | 5:00 PM Office of Federal Relations Rooftop 1730 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20004 United States