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This last diversity club we discussed power and privilege, and we used White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh as the reading. https://nationalseedproject.org/images/documents/Knapsack_plus_Notes-Peggy_McIntosh.pdf

After discussing enough to get people who didn’t have time to read thinking about things, we broke out in groups of 3 or 4 do have smaller discussion with these three prompts:

Round one: What are one or more ways in which you’ve had unearned disadvantage in your life?

Round two: What are one or more ways in which you’ve had unearned advantage in your life?

Round three: What is it like for you to sit here and talk about and hear about these experiences of unearned advantage and disadvantage?

Here are some interesting results:

http://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/979/algorithms-for-text-clustering

Click to access text-cluster.pdf

Anything I should add to my reading list?

Workplace Violence in Health Care: A Critical Issue With a Promising Solution
Ron Wyatt, MD, MHA, DMS (HON); Kim Anderson-Drevs, PhD, RN; Lynn M. Van Male, PhD
JAMA. 2016;316(10):1037 doi:10.1001/jama.2016.10384
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2536076

http://textminingonline.com/how-to-use-stanford-named-entity-recognizer-ner-in-python-nltk-and-other-programming-languages

https://github.com/aboSamoor/polyglot

http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml#Download

Did I not yet blog about the GATHER guidelines? I know I sent some excited emails about them when they were released. GATHER mandates reproducible research for descriptive epidemiology. Full details: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30388-9/fulltext

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