Publications by Benyamin Tabarsi
Week 6 - Unit 3 Walkthrough
0. INTRODUCTION The Unit 3 walkthrough extends previous research and evaluation work at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. In addition to many other areas of inquiry, this work was aimed at understanding and improving peer interaction and discussion in the Friday Institute’s Massively Open Online...
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Unit 2 Independent Analysis: Tweets about Airlines
1. Prepare 1a. Some Context Searching for an interesting dataset to do analysis on in Kaggle, I encountered a fascinating dataset containing tweets about different airlines. As transportation is an integral part of any trip, I found it useful and exciting to get some insights into the sentiment of Twitter users about popular airlines. Conducting...
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Unit 2 Walkthrough
0. INTRODUCTION This week, our walkthrough is guided by my colleague Josh Rosenberg’s recent article, Advancing new methods for understanding public sentiment about educational reforms: The case of Twitter and the Next Generation Science Standards. We will focus on conducting a very simplistic “replication study” by comparing the sentiment ...
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Week 7 Independent Analysis: Topic Modeling
0. INTRODUCTION For this independent study, I decided to analyze a new dataset comprising the reviews of App Store users about a popular financial management application, named “Mint.” This application helps users keep track of their income and expenses. It also provides them insights into their credit score, bills and balances. Although ther...
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Week 9 - Unit 4 Walkthrough
0. INTRODUCTION In the Unit 4 walkthrough, we will replicate a simpler version of the following paper: Not the same: a text network analysis on computational thinking definitions to study its relationship with computer programming. This paper reviews definitions for computational thinking in the literature. You might have noticed that in our fiel...
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Introduction It goes without saying that programming has been an inevitable component of science in the last few decades. Given its significance, a plethora of methods and approaches have been proposed to make the programming learning process easier and more effective. An established popular way to do so is using block-based programming languages...
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