Sentiment Analysis on New York Times Articles Data

Sentiment Analysis on New York Times Coverage Data Departmental Affiliation: Data Science/ Political Science College of Arts and Sciences The extant political science literature examines media coverage of immigration and assesses the effect of that coverage on partisanship in the United States. Immigration is believed to be a unique factor that induces large- scale changes in partisanship based on race and ethnicity. The negative tone of media coverage pushes non-Latino Whites into the Republican Party, while Latinos trend toward the Democratic Party. The aim for this project is to look at New York time data in order to identify how much immigration is covered in newspaper outlets, specifically Latino immigration, and to determine the overall tone of these stories. In this research, we seek to determine individual articles take a positive, neutral or negative stance. We achieve this using a dictionary-based approach, meaning we look at individual words to assess if it has a positive, neutral or negative connotation. We train our data using publicly accessible sentiment dictionaries such as VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and Sentiment Reasoner). However, this task can be difficult because certain words can be dynamic and may pertain to a positive or negative sentiment in context of the article. In order to resolve this issue, we use reliability measures to ensure that the words of high frequencies are in the correct sphere of negative, neutral, and positive light. Information about the Author(s): Faculty Sponsor(s): Professor Gregg B. Johnson and Professor Karl Schmitt Student Contact: Gabriel Carvajal – [email protected]

USING A MULTIPLE PRODUCT AND MULTIPLE INPUT APPROACH TO DAIRY PROFIT MAXIMIZATION: A SIMULATION USING OPERATIONS RESEARCH METHODS

Dairy producers generally take a single output/multiple input approach when making production decisions. Under component pricing, with large variance in individual component prices, a multiple output/multiple input approach maximizes profits. This paper applied our approach to the individual farm milk production decision.Livestock Production/Industries, Productivity Analysis,

Strategic Planning: Implications and Applications for Line Managers

Strategic planning is the key to producing a realistic, attractive rate of growth and a respectable return on investment. The author analyzes the steps in the planning process and looks at the environmental and cultural values which influence the strategic planner in his/her work

Questionnaire Construction

Questionnaires used in survey research can elicit excellent data for analysis for any part of the industry. The author discusses how to design questions, construct the survey, and watch for errors in conducting the re- search so that the results secured advance scientific inquiry

A Study Of A Baccalaureate Degree Curriculum In Hospitality Management

The Florida International University School of Hospitality Management program has been in existence since 1973. It is the only university program rated by Florida\u27s Board of Regents as a Distinguished Program and is consistently ranked by educational and industry leaders as one or the top four programs of its kind in the United States. The undergraduate program consists of fifty-five courses on a 3000-4000 level, and they are taught by a distinguished faculty or thirty-five professors, plus adjuncts and visiting lecturers from the industry. In 1990 the school moved into its own $10 million state-of-the-art facility on the university\u27s North Campus. Since its inception the administration has made it a matter of policy that the undergraduate curriculum will be reviewed internally every five years. The 1988 review was moved back one year to accommodate the relocation of the program to the new building, and to coincide with the self study required in the reaccreditation process of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Thus this study occurred over an eighteen-month period, culminating in June, 1990. The purpose of the study was clearly established by Jean Anthony G. Marshall and Associate Dean Rocco M. Angelo. Specifically, it was intended to evaluate staff, discipline, and course efficacy on a performance/perception basis. A number of congruent factors as follows added to the significance of this type of evaluation: The university has established heightened requirements on degree programs for improved performance. Research and self-analysis were deemed central to this objective. The educational arm of the hospitality industry is seeking o professionalize itself by requiring program accreditation through its Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Editors (CHRIE) working with the Council on Post-Secondary Education (COPA). An anticipated move to accept freshmen and sophomore degree candidates require an in-depth program review. The study sough to develop answers to, or directions for, a set of both philosophic and pragmatic questions relating to a professional school education: a) What is the appropriate balance between general/liberal education courses and the specific disciplines requirements as perceived by industry leadership? b) How do our graduates perform in the industry on the basis of the curriculum as it now exists? W c) What is the real opinion of industry leaders of the school\u27s product? d) How, precisely, should the curriculum look ? Utilizing the resources of the school and faculty, stratified random sample of the baccalaureate population was selected; a questionnaire was constructed by faculty and university research experts, and a mailing was sent to 600 graduates. Concurrently, the deans and faculty compiled a list of industry leaders to be personally interviewed approximately 200 individuals were involved in the process and results were collected over a three-month period. Analysis of the results indicated a very high level of success and satisfaction by program graduates and by industry leaders who have employed the graduates. Graduates remain in the industry in significant numbers, are mobile within the industry, receive regular pronotions and are, overall, satisfied with the knowledge they gained in the school and the relevancy of this information to the industry. Both graduates and industry leaders were open and articulate regarding perceived needs, emphasizing improvements in the areas of marketing, additional accounting material, and applied leadership. To synthesize the results of the, study, a model\u27\u27 curriculum was proposed to emphasize changes in human resource-type courses. It was recommended that an ad hoc curriculum revision committee be appointed within the School of Hospitality Management charged with presenting curriculum change recommendations to the full faculty by Fall 1991. This has been accomplished, and the work is in process. Two courses that were determined to be superfluous by the study are in the process of being phased out, and a new seniors honors course in career development tracking is under study. In the final analysis, this study has met every objective it was assigned and has provided the meaningful data that was sought. The result will be manifested in a modern, more relevant, and humanistic hospitality program curriculum

A national look at important curricular aspects of agricultural education

This study was an attempt to determine the situation on a national basis relative to important curricular aspects of agricul-tural education on the secondary level. Data were collected from state supervisors of agricultural educa-tion through a mailed questionnaire. A respondence of 76 percent was received. Production agriculture, even though declining in curricular emphasis, composed the single largest element of curriculum; and sub-ject matter areas such as horticulture, agri-business, farm power and machinery, forestry, conservation, natural resources, and cooperative work experience were receiving increased emphasis. Emphasis during the 70\u27s was expected to be heavily directed to-ward subject matter areas which have implications of ecological impor-tance. Ornamental horticulture was also expected to receive even greater emphasis. Eighty-four percent of the respondents indicated that special provisions were being provided for the disadvantaged, but little substantiative evidence of significant efforts was found. A core curriculum was provided for local agricultural education departments by 60 percent of the respondents while the practice of de-veloping and implementing common cores of curriculum for agricultural education and one or more other vocational service was found to be a rare practice. Agricultural programs were found to be largely organized around one-hour classes granting one credit, with two years of basic agricul-ture followed by one or more specialized courses. Granting of specific credit for cooperative work experience was found to be a common practice

The evolution and star formation of dwarf galaxies in the Fornax Cluster

We present the results of a spectroscopic survey of 675 bright (16.5<Bj<18) galaxies in a 6 degree field centred on the Fornax cluster with the FLAIR-II spectrograph on the UK Schmidt Telescope. We measured redshifts for 516 galaxies of which 108 were members of the Fornax Cluster. Nine of these are new cluster members previously misidentified as background galaxies. The cluster dynamics show that the dwarf galaxies are still falling into the cluster whereas the giants are virialised. Our spectral data reveal a higher rate of star formation among the dwarf galaxies than suggested by morphological classification: 35 per cent have H-alpha emission indicative of star formation but only 19 per cent were morphologically classified as late-types. The distribution of scale sizes is consistent with evolutionary processes which transform late-type dwarfs to early-type dwarfs. The fraction of dwarfs with active star formation drops rapidly towards the cluster centre. The star-forming dwarfs are concentrated in the outer regions of the cluster, the most extreme in an infalling subcluster. We estimate gas depletion time scales for 5 dwarfs with detected HI emission: these are long (of order 10 Gyr), indicating that active gas removal must be involved if they are transformed into gas-poor dwarfs as they fall further into the cluster. In agreement with our previous results, we find no compact dwarf elliptical (M32-like) galaxies in the Fornax Cluster.Comment: To appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ