Elaine Farrow

Senior Research Programmer, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

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Elaine is based in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her recent work for Digitising Scotland has involved automated text classification of administrative data. This process uses machine learning methods to map occupation and cause-of-death records to international standard data coding schemes. Elaine is currently undertaking a PhD in data science, analysing student discussion forum messages to identify depth and quality of participation directly from the text.