Analytics Day
Analytics days is an event focused on allowing students to display and explain their projects. There were of course student presentations and later on there were guest speakers. As I walked around, there many different topics being analyzed in fairly unorthodox areas. In the picture to the right, you’ll see a presentation made on finding which qualities of music tend to produce the most popular or successful songs on YouTube and Spotify.
I went into this event looking for the music-based projects as it is something I’m interested in. I have taken some data science and coding classes, and I think it is an important quality to have or know about it. Since I specifically would like to work with music, I realize that aside from the creative aspect of it, it may also include a lot of research and data analysis. So, I was really happy to find this project and learn about it.
Forensic Linguistics Guest Speaker
This event was an introduction and explanation of the career forensic linguistic. Dr. Robert Leonard talked to us about his own career journey and what exactly forensic linguistics is.
Since my pathway as an English major is writing and linguistics, I am required to take some linguistic classes. I initially believed that I hated this topic, however after finally taking my first class, I developed a newfound love for it. My linguistic professor had recommended this class to me and then eventually let me know of this event. So, I thought it would be interesting to get an initial glimpse of forensic linguistic.
Truthfully, I believe it is a difficult topic to truly grasp. Linguistics itself is already very broad with so many concepts. So, no matter how much Dr. Leonard explained, I think you truly need to have an interest in it in order to understand many of the things he talked about. But many of the cases or stories Dr. Leonard talked about were still interesting to hear. And I learned that linguistics is truly a viable factor in law.