Things I learned from DB32

  • The University of Toronto Press publishes a journal named the Canadian Journal of Linguistics
  • Journal papers require a needless amount of special formatting
  • Weka isn’t a particularly useful tool
  • Don’t be fooled into thinking because you’re taking a DB module, the software you will be using will support databases
  • Don’t assume that because you are on a computing degree your modules will be anything to do with computing
  • Don’t assume that because you are on a computing degree your assessment will be based on technical knowledge
  • Don’t assume that because you are a third year computing student they won’t try and teach you how to use Google
  • If a module leader explicitly tells you not to use CRISP-DM, don’t believe them
  • Data mining happens, and I quote, “by magic”
  • Data mining has no value and isn’t useful in language research
  • Data mining has no value and isn’t useful, period
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