Cultural Perception of Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs through Big Data Analysis
Presenter Status
Faculty
Session
C-2
Location
Buller Room 208
Start Date
14-5-2015 2:25 PM
End Date
14-5-2015 2:50 PM
Presentation Abstract
Big data opens new opportunities for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. With the great amount of internal and external data, it is possible to look for hidden patterns that can help us to understand ourselves and how the world behaves. After analyzing big data, this presentation shows interesting results about how culture perceives our fundamental beliefs. In this study, the computational data analysis was based on culturomics, which is the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. The full data set used in the experiments is available for download at https://books.google.com/ngrams. This data set is composed of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed between 1800 and 2008. The Google Ngram Viewer was used to visualize the results. This quantitative research focused on books written in English. However, books written in Spanish were analyzed in one of the experiments.
Cultural Perception of Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs through Big Data Analysis
Buller Room 208
Big data opens new opportunities for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. With the great amount of internal and external data, it is possible to look for hidden patterns that can help us to understand ourselves and how the world behaves. After analyzing big data, this presentation shows interesting results about how culture perceives our fundamental beliefs. In this study, the computational data analysis was based on culturomics, which is the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. The full data set used in the experiments is available for download at https://books.google.com/ngrams. This data set is composed of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed between 1800 and 2008. The Google Ngram Viewer was used to visualize the results. This quantitative research focused on books written in English. However, books written in Spanish were analyzed in one of the experiments.