Presentations

Authors: Stapleton, J,. & Brown, S.

The growing nature of interdisciplinary research and collaborations between researchers across academic faculties are expanding the role of systematic review support in the academic library. In Fall 2017, a health librarian and social sciences librarian teamed up to develop a systematic review workshop targeted towards social science researchers. Description: Drawing on experience from previous systematic review collaborations, it became clear that there were misconceptions and...

Lossy, noisy, or missing data are a common phenomena in many areas of statistics ranging from sampling to statistical learning. Instead of just ignoring these missing values, it can be useful to somehow attempt to recover or impute them. Meanwhile, deep learning is increasingly shown to be adept at learning latent representations or distributions of data. These patterns or representations can often be too complex to be recognized manually or through classical statistical techniques. We will discuss practical deep learning approaches to the problem of lossy data restoration or imputation...

Harald Havas’s ASH: Austrian Superheroes (2016- ) is a comic about the Neue Wiener Wächter: the red-and-white-clad Captain Austria, Jr. and his teammates Der Bürokrat, Lady Heumarkt and Das Donauweibchen. Their localized code-names identify them as a form of “nationalist superhero,” who “explicitly identifies himself or herself as representative and defender of a specific nation-...