MLP in Academia by Alex G (BronyCon Dev 2016)

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1. MLP in Academia (And doing pony stuff in a non-pony field) Alex G (lyra833)
2. How do I incessantly talk about ponies at work without getting in trouble?
3. You don’t have to ponify your work stuff! You can “workify” your pony stuff!
4. Case Study Using the fandom as a data set
5. Overview • Extremely boring technical stuff ◦ Twitter API scraping ◦ Weighted network modeling ◦ Calculus • MLP as a data set made the whole thing more accessible and exciting ◦ (and it let me talk about MLP more, too!)
6. Post-Paper • Got me more in touch with the fandom • Made the research more impressive • Got me prizes and stuff • Helped me springboard into other fields • Made it easier to hold interesting conversations • Can talk about horses more • Big data stuff, I guess
7. The wonderful thing about MLP is that there are fans in virtually every field of tech and academia. Celestia hitches a ride to the ISS in 2015 (Luna followed on a nav module shortly after)
8. Happy Ponifying!