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  • Sentiment Analysis of Hotel and Restaurant Yelp Reviews: A Comparison of Methods and Theories

    This project, led by Fuad Mehraliyev, an associate professor at ISE, compares various methodological and theoretical approaches in conducting sentiment analysis within the context of service encounters. Eight studies were conducted using the Yelp dataset, with multiple models compared in each study. The analytical process involves several steps, including data cleaning and preparation, extracting review […]

  • Mixed methods approaches to detecting and analyzing communities on 4chan/pol/

    In Daniel Bach’s Ph.D. research using the advanced computational power of High Performance Computing (HPC) through UCloud, the research is able to delve into the vast textual content found within online communities, such as the anonymous imageboard 4chan’s politically incorrect (/pol/) section. On this platform, myriad posts, numbering into hundreds of millions, are continually generated, […]

  • How do Danish politicians in Folketinget respond to external shocks?

    By Nicholas Buhmann-Holmes, PhD Fellow, Roskilde University This PhD project looks at how politicians in Folketinget (Danish parliament) respond to external shocks. This is done by computational quantitative analysis of parliamentary debates from Folketinget from the early 1900s and onwards. The project focuses on how Danish politicians have responded to external shocks. The project looks […]

  • Addressing Climate Change with Big Data: A Machine Learning Approach to Green Public Procurement 

    Ph.D. student Bjarke Lund-Sørensen, Roskilde University, in collaboration with Professor Ole Helby Petersen and Associate Professor Lena Brogaard.  This project examines how governments utilize the great potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through public procurement from the private market. Public procurement is a slightly overlooked area in the debate on climate change. However, public procurement […]

  • The R course with UCloud

    John Shorter organized a nicely structured R course and presented general insight into R, which is powerful language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. The course also provided familiarization with RStudio as an integrated development environment for R. Each participant was able to run the RStudio on UCloud as an interactive application accessible through a standard web browser. […]

  • Teaching Humanities in UCloud

    This is a reposted article from https://interactivehpc.dk/?p=780. UCloud has been a game changer for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Humanities Computing (Aarhus University), Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, teaching within the crossroads of cultural studies and data science. In short, the benefits of UCloud within teaching narrows down to a much more trouble-free teaching process free of […]

  • What effected teachers and students’ performance during Covid-19 lockdown?

    Associate Professor Jens Ulrik Hansen, Roskilde University in collaboration with Assistant Professor Sine Zambach, Copenhagen Business School Based on administrative data about students, courses and teachers at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) together with a teacher survey and student evaluation of courses and teachers, we have investigated what had an effect on students’ performance (grades) and […]

  • AlterPublics: Alternative Media and Ideological Counterpublics

    AlterPublics: Alternative Media and Ideological Counterpublics

    Principal investigator: Eva Mayerhöffer. Other team members Jakob Bæk Kristensen (Post.doc), Frederik Henriksen (PhD student) and Tim Ramsland (Research assistant) The AlterPublics project studies the role of alternative media in the digital public sphere. Alternative news media have become crucial actors in modern societies, and their ideology-driven content presents a critical challenge for journalism, public […]