TUESDAY Workshop: R in Transportation Safety Research: Case Studies

THURSDAY Workshop: Text Mining in R: Understanding 100 years of Air Crash Narratives

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Attendees must bring a laptop with R and R Studio already installed and sample data downloaded. 

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Dates: 2 DAYS! Tuesday & Thursday, February 7 & 9, 2017

Time: 12:30-1:30 PM

Location: CVOB (CE/TTI Building) Room 217

Free Food Will Be Provided!

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Workshop 1: R in Transportation Safety Research: Case Studies

This workshop will give a basic idea of R programming in Transportation Safety Engineering. This workshop will cover the following items:

  • Basics of R
  • Concepts of safety modeling
  • Statistics vs. Machine Learning
  • R for statistical modeling
  • R for machine learning
  • Case studies

Workshop 2: Text Mining in R: Understanding 100 years of Air Crash Narratives

This workshop will give hands on R programming tools for performing text mining. This workshop will cover the following items:

  • Text Mining
  • Topic Modeling
  • 100 years of air crash data
  • Exploratory data analysis
  • R codes for word clouds
  • R codes for word networks
  • R codes for LDA and STM
  • What is next?

Bio of Dr. Subasish Das

Dr. Subasish Das is an associate transportation researcher with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). He has more than 7 years of national and international experience associated with transportation safety and operation. His major areas of expertise include database management, statistical analysis and machine learning with emphasis in safety and transportation operations, spatial analysis with modern web GIS tools, computer programming (R, python, VBA, html, and javascript), interactive data visualization, and deep learning tools for autonomous cars. He is the author or co-author of over 20 technical papers or research reports. One of his research reports won 2014 AASHTO RAC “Sweet Sixteen” High Value Research award. He has been engaged in many state and federal funded safety research projects. Dr. Das was an Eno Fellow. He is an active member of ITE, and ASCE. He recently served as vice-president of membership of Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT) Houston chapter. He is an active member of the TRB Committee for Library and Information Science for Transportation (ABG40).

 

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