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Feb. 26th, 2013 08:11 pmI am slower at math than most people. I can do basic arithmetic, but even I have to check what I entered into the spreadsheet.
Statistical software scares me because there seems so many options and no guide which one to use or which information to plug in. So, while I have taken statistics courses and passed, I never really learned how to use software like SAS or SPSS. I almost feel like I have to do them on paper to understand it all--if I remember which equation and variables are being used.
As you may guess, statistical software is important in different branches of human language technology.
Then again, I don't hate math. I can appreciate that math of any level of difficulty can be a check to ideas that get too abstract for others to understand or support.
Second, I have no idea where to go to talk to computational linguists face-to-face around Boston. This observation, I find hilarious, since I'm in a college town, darn it.
Third, with job titles nowhere near what a person does from day to day, I have no idea how to translate what I enjoy doing into 'job analysis' terms.
Statistical software scares me because there seems so many options and no guide which one to use or which information to plug in. So, while I have taken statistics courses and passed, I never really learned how to use software like SAS or SPSS. I almost feel like I have to do them on paper to understand it all--if I remember which equation and variables are being used.
As you may guess, statistical software is important in different branches of human language technology.
Then again, I don't hate math. I can appreciate that math of any level of difficulty can be a check to ideas that get too abstract for others to understand or support.
Second, I have no idea where to go to talk to computational linguists face-to-face around Boston. This observation, I find hilarious, since I'm in a college town, darn it.
Third, with job titles nowhere near what a person does from day to day, I have no idea how to translate what I enjoy doing into 'job analysis' terms.
