How to Prepare for Advancement

These are my notes based on Scott Klemmer’s informative post on advancement: Plan your advancement date 2 months in advance, as you need to have the entire committee be present. Scheduling into an existing group meeting is ideal. Spend time with other faculties in your committee. Your Title title must be broadest accurate description of your… Continue Reading How to Prepare for Advancement

Grad Cohort 16 Review

I attended Grad Cohort 2016 with three goals in mind: finding an internship position aligned with my research interests for summer, connecting with PhD students in HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and understanding their experience and the path they are following, making the most of the workshops geared toward the third year PhD students as the audience. To fulfill… Continue Reading Grad Cohort 16 Review

Content Analysis Project using LDA topic modeling

Content Analysis Project using LDA topic modeling LDA on 16 interview of both first and last year UCSC first generation students This post is about the Qualitative Data Analysis class that I took at the department of education, UC Santa Cruz. The project objective was to develop two sets of interview protocols for first generation… Continue Reading Content Analysis Project using LDA topic modeling