Hackathon ASReview for Follow the Money

Investigating the communication between multinational oil and gas company Shell and the Dutch government.

From Friday evening 26 November to Sunday afternoon 28 November, ASReview will organise a Hackaton for Follow the Money (FTM). The Hackaton for Follow The Money will revolve around the communication between multinational oil and gas company Shell and the Dutch government. Follow the Money gathered many documents to investigate their relationship. The Hackaton will help FTM to find these key documents by using active learning instead of searching in randomized documents.

ASReview points out three ways of helping FTM during this Hackaton:

  1. Data-preprocessing: Pre-processing the data and automatic cleaning, so it can be used for text-mining and other Active Learning solutions. If successful, your script would be the starting point of all the steps that follow in the investigation. Everything starts with clean data!
  2. Visualization: Visualizing the data, see for example this semantic clustering for the Covid-19 papers by Albert Harkema. Will your visuals be used to showcase the hidden connections? 
  3. Smart Screening: Making the datasets available in ASReview LAB, like was done for the CORD19 database. Getting the data into ASReview will help FTM to find the relevant documents sooner. Your solution could help FTM for all of their other investigations as well!

The Hackaton will be organised for anyone who is interested. You are allowed to register as a team, or as an individual.

The ASReview Hackaton will be held online, from Friday evening 26 November to Sunday afternoon 28 November.

Read more about the Hackaton details here.

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