Contribution to the Project: Nishan Karki worked with Taylor Ray in collecting data from Flickr, and Mastodon. He worked on using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm to find topics from millions of tweets and used these efforts in developing and presenting a poster for the undergraduate research symposium.
Nishan was a part of the Computer Science team and assisted in investigating multiple approaches used for detecting emotions in data from multiple social media platforms. Finally, he also led efforts in investigating data collection methods for Yelp, LiveJournal, and Quora.