Speaking at the SUNY virtual conference, "Business Disciplines Leaning into the Future: Tips, Tools and Practices for Incorporating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion into Business School Classes"
My talk is entitled "Using African American Literature To Teach Analytics Courses in Business Schools" and part of a session on "DEI in Economics and Quantitative Classes" moderated by SUNY Oswego.
Abstract: This talk focuses on the use of Afro American Literature archives (such as Mary Church Terrell papers from the Library of Congress, records pertaining to American Slave Trade in National Archives and Digital Collections at the University of Buffalo Libraries) in analytics courses. Specifically, we will discuss how large scale text generated by Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which is often garbled, can be stored in large repositories for parallel processing and meaningful information can be extracted from them using natural language processing techniques.
Here are some excerpts from the talk
