After a three-year hiatus, I'm back. This feels like a "tree in the forest with nobody around to hear it" kind of moment.

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” ~Bertrand Russell

I wonder what the ratio is of 'reticent users questioning whether each tweet is really worth typing' to 'unflinching users who assume every tweet is obviously worth typing'.

Time for the biennial return to Twitter

Some of our recent work with Tripp Shealy and @agodwinSTRIDE on engineering students and their interests to address climate change in their careers tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

And here's another one of ours that just came out on civil engineering students' understanding of climate science: ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%2…

Excited to start this work on natural language processing in engineering education here at VT Engineering Education nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

New article out from me VT Engineering Education with Joyce Main Purdue Engineering Education in Studies in Engineering Education on using concepts from political science and economics to study phenomena in engineering education. Check it out! seejournal.org/articles/10.21…

This Friday, WIM is pleased to welcome Andrew Katz to campus! Join us at 2pm in person or online to learn more about using NLP for social science research. Read more & register to attend: go.iu.edu/4MK2 cc: Adam Maltese Tim Hallett IU Schuessler Institute for Social Research

Glad our pre-print on using GPT and generative AI to analyze teammate feedback in engineering courses is finally out! Co-authored with Siqing Wei Christopher Brinton Matthew Ohland and Gaurav Nanda arxiv.org/abs/2305.11882

Our new pre-print on using generative AI (e.g., GPT-4) and large language models for education research is out! In it we demonstrate how one can use these models to identify themes in large-scale qualitative data arxiv.org/abs/2305.18125

Happy to be able to share work with Yasir - one of my grad student’s about to defend soon! - and Jenni Case comparing results from using generative AI in qualitative research with traditional approaches! Preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Big congrats to one of my grad students UMAIR SHAKIR on winning best paper for the ethics division for our paper on using natural language processing in ethics assessment! Co-authored With Justin Hess

Somehow Jake Grohs and I lucked our way into being part of this great team with colleagues in the med school news.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

We have a new pre-print out! I have been spending a long time thinking about how to scale up qualitative data analysis. In this paper, we introduce a method I call EECS - extract, embed, cluster, and summarize. Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2403.11984

Tweets emanate from birds. Felicitously, my last name is Katz. In homage to heritage and heresy, do my posts constitute a "meow"?