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Gist of LAK 22 paper

You might be familiar with my research in the field of Writing Analytics, particularly Automated Writing Feedback during my PhD and beyond. The work is based off an automated feedback tool called AcaWriter (previously called Automated Writing Analytics/ AWA) which we developed at the Connected Intelligence Centre, University of Technology Sydney. Recently we have come ...

I’ve recently had my writing analytics work published at the 21st international conference on artificial intelligence in education (AIED 2020) where the theme was “Augmented Intelligence to Empower Education”. It is a short paper describing a text analysis and visualisation method to study revisions. It introduced ‘Automated Revision Graphs’ to study revisions in short texts ...

Three of my journal articles got published recently, two on learning analytics/ writing analytics implementations . that I worked on earlier (many years ago in fact, which just got published!). Article 1: Educator ...

Welcome 2020! A new year is the perfect time to reflect on the past year, so I wanted to take a step back and think about it. 2019 was one of the most successful years for me professionally (and personally) with a range of experiences and productive outcomes. Quite a few achievements I’m really ...

I came across this review article on writing tools published in 2019, and wanted to make some quick notes to come back to in this post. I’m following the usual format I use for article notes which summarizes the gist of a paper with short descriptions under respective headers. I had a few thoughts ...

I attended the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference LAK this year in the midst of my tight thesis writing schedule, and did not regret it 🙂 This 9th International LAK (4-8 Mar, 2019) was held in Tempe, Arizona which meant a flight travel of 15 hours + transit from Sydney one way; I survived, thankfully. First ...

Recently I gave a talk on Augmenting pedagogical writing support with contextualizable learning analytics at the CRLI seminar series in the University of Sydney.  It was a great opportunity to share and discuss ideas from my PhD research, and indeed a privilege to be invited to present at this seminar. Long time slot means less time ...

Jupyter is an open source program that helps you share and run code in many different programming languages. Jupyter notebooks are great to quickly prototype different versions of code, as they are easy to edit and try different outputs. The format of a Jupyter notebook is similar to reports in the form of Markdowns that ...

The topic of telling stories from data is huge and probably needs many many hours and books to explain the ideal ways of doing it. But Dr. Roberto Martinez did a great job in giving us a quick introduction to the topic and its pragmatic application in an hour at his talk at the UTS ...