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Upcoming Social Informatics Talk on “Text Mining Careers”

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This is the blurb of the talk we will give to next friday Social Informatics Forum (10th of October). We have been awarded funding from the Challenge Investment Scheme by Edinburgh University College of Humanities and Social Science to develop a research project that builds links between interpretive/qualitative and data intensive/quantitative research for the study of careers and expertise. By applying a combination of techniques including text mining, sequential analysis and ethnography, the project will explore new ways to respond to the question: how workers build careers across organisations?  By applying sequential analysis to CVs mined from the web, the project will demonstrate the application of text mining technology to a particular type of IT expert career, namely industrial analysts. Extensive study of IT experts’ career patterns will provide insights into how the combination of job positions and the type of organization worked for contributed to acquiring the skills and relationships necessary to build analysts reputation as experts in the IT field.

Project partners are Bea Alex, Alberto Acerbi and Gian Marco Campagnolo.

Beatrice Alex is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are in text mining for documents from different domains as well as multi- and mixed-lingual text processing and its applications.  Her ambition is to make archives more accessible to users.

Alberto Acerbi is a cognitive/evolutionary anthropologist with a particular interest in computational science. He has been awarded a British Academy and Royal Society’s Newton Fellowship and he joined, in January 2013, the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.

Gian Marco Campagnolo is Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at Edinburgh University. He works in the area of the sociology of business knowledge. His research empirically focuses on ICT market intermediaries using a combination of qualitative and digital research methods. His research is exemplified by studies of salespeople, global IT vendors, analysts & consultants.

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