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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 2, 2018
Rebecca Keane
Director of Communications
rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu
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Summary Sentence:
On May 25, 2018, Carla Gerona, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology presented a paper “Creating and Mining Data: Late-Eighteenth Century East Texas Census Records” at Centro Interdiciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades, Univ
Full Summary:
On May 25, 2018, Carla Gerona, associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology presented a paper “Creating and Mining Data: Late-Eighteenth Century East Texas Census Records” at Centro Interdiciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades, University of Évora, Portugal
Carla GeronaOn May 25, 2018, Carla Gerona, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology attended a conference themed Encounters, Rights and Sovereignty in the Iberian Empires at Centro Interdiciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades, University of Évora, Portugal.
At the conference, she presented a paper Creating and Mining Data: Late-Eighteenth Century East Texas Census Records to a group of international scholars. The research examines the value of word clouds in analyzing census data. Gerona’s findings indicate that word clouds create powerful visualizations and aggregate data efficiently, but not as clearly as other statistical methods.
