UNC Greensboro’s Massmine team was recently awarded a substantial grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This is an interdisciplinary multi-university grant aimed at mining and analyzing publicly available social media Big Data. Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Beveridge, Principal Investigator (Department of English) and Dr. Somya Mohanty, Co-Principal Investigator for Massmine, on their hard work! This grant will assist in funding a Computer Science graduate student.
To learn more about Massmine, go to http://www.massmine.org/about.html.
Proof of concept work done by UNCG Computer Science students: https://github.com/JoshCMoore/Massmine-for-the-Masses/tree/master
To see the press release from NEH, go to https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/NEH-Grant-Awards-August-2019-PDF.pdf.
