New Workshop Series: Mixed Methods Research in Business Intelligence

I am running a new workshop series in April on Mixed Methods Research in Business Intelligence! I designed this series to prepare individuals for 3 types of careers: market research, UX (User eXperience), and consumer insights. The workshops teach business concepts and a variety of methodologies, including qualitative & quantitative primary research and secondary research. Each workshop will consist of lectures interspersed by breakout sessions where groups will focus on a real business problem.

The value add is for individuals with backgrounds in:

• Social sciences and humanities, who are seeking research and managerial roles in consultant firms, market research companies, and growth strategy businesses

• STEM fields and traditional data science roles, who are looking to develop core business and research skills in order to be promoted to higher level IC or managerial roles

There is still some room to sign up, but we are nearing the max capacity of 75 participants. You can register here!

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Early-Career Mentor Award

I’m honored to win the Early-Career Mentor Award from the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC). This has been a difficult year. I was in a car accident that resulted in physical, visual, and cognitive impairments. As someone who has long found identity through my intellect and research, the reduction in cognitive function has been devastating.

To me, being a good mentor means empowering students by listening to their goals, meeting them where they are, and helping them navigate the (often circuitous) path to find what makes them healthy and happy. Mentorship requires patience, compassion, encouragement, and humility.

Although I still have a long road to return to my baseline health and cognitive function, my values remain the same. Similarly, the awe of my mentees in data science, psychology, and music cognition has never wavered. Their future is bright. So is mine.

Below, see the text of the announcement at the award ceremony.

Job Update: Senior Data Scientist at Aware

I’m beyond thrilled to share that I’ve started a new job as a Senior Data Scientist on the Behavioral Intelligence team at Aware. I get to work with fantastic colleagues to find insights from human behavioral data in enterprise collaboration platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and more. Our goal is to empower employees by creating empathic, flexible, and human-centric workplaces. What fun!

I especially love that I can bring together my people-related business knowledge from PATH and my human participant-related research from my PhD experiments into this new role!

Time to celebrate!

The end of May 2021 was bittersweet, as it concluded two activities that I love:

1. Future Directions of Music Cognition, where I served as Co-Chair on the organizing committee

2. The Erdős Institute Data Science Bootcamp, where I was the Head of Data Science Projects

It was an honor to be part of both activities. I wish all people in those wonderful communities the best moving forward and certainly hope we keep in touch!

New Instructor at Fox Voice Studios

Lindsay will be starting as an instructor at Fox Voice Studios in January 2021. She will be giving a series of three master classes, which will each be presented twice. The topics are the following:

• Introduction to the psychology of music and emotion

• Transcendence in the music of Gustav Mahler

• Connecting the music of Bing Crosby and Billie Eilish

Find out more details here and register to attend a master class here!

Public Lecture at the Erdős Institute

On December 8, Lindsay presented a lecture to fellows of the Erdős Institute, who are PhD students looking to transition from academia to industry. Right up Lindsay’s alley! The lecture was part of Erdős’ alumni-run BootCamp+ series and was focused on applying PhD skills like hypothesis testing and experimental design in an industry setting. It was a lot of fun! Slides can be found here for anyone interested.

Job Update: Data Scientist at Sonde Health

After Lindsay finished her fellowship at Insight Data Science in April 2020, she happily accepted a full-time position as a Data Scientist at Sonde Health, Inc. This position is like a dream come true for Lindsay, where she uses her data science and music cognition research skills to analyze speech samples for health biomarkers.

Sonde’s goal is to empower people by allowing them to monitor their health and aid in early detection of a variety of health conditions. Lindsay has been passionate about health care since she attended the Academy of Allied Health & Science for high school. It feels like everything has come full circle, even though her career path has been very windy road!

Keep-Me-Engaged

For the past month, Lindsay has been working at Insight Data Science as a Data Science Fellow. The first part of Insight is dedicated to working on a data science project that provides actionable insights. Lindsay’s project is “Keep-Me-Engaged,” which is a web app that provides customized feedback for 600+ companies on how to improve learner engagement in their online courses.

The Keep-Me-Engaged tool can be found online here. For more details about the project, see the updated Insight Data Science page!

TOP 10 REASONS TO APPLY TO “FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF MUSIC COGNITION”

1. We have money for student travel grants

2. Free registration for students and post-docs (and only $100 for faculty and industry professionals)!

3. We will be awarding prizes for the best presentations

4. We will be publishing proceedings articles

5. No SMPC, ICMPC, or ESCOM in 2020

6. You have opportunities to work closely with experts in emotion (J. Vuoskoski), timbre (S. McAdams), corpus studies (D. Shanahan), pedagogy (L. VanHandel), and rhythm & meter (J. London)

7. Workshops on best current and future methodologies in these areas (emotion, timbre, corpus studies, pedagogy, and rhythm & meter)

8. Opportunity to work closely in small groups and meet others in the field

9. Help contribute to open science and public music theory

10. Music science is fun!

Call for papers due Sunday, 12/15! See the link here!

Dissertation Now Published Online

Lindsay’s dissertation, entitled Subtle Semblances of Sorrow: Exploring Music, Emotional Theory, and Methodology, is now available online here! The dissertation explores how emotional theories relate to music, includes a novel database of over 22,000 musical stimuli, describes a series of 7 behavioral studies, and summarizes her vision for future music research.

The chapter titles are listed below. Please contact Lindsay for more information or to hear about her next steps and her new and exciting research ideas.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Comparing Musical and Psychological Emotion Theories

Chapter 3: The PUMS Database: A Corpus of Previously-Used Musical Stimuli in 306 Studies of Music and Emotion

Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Tune: A Review of Music Stimuli used in Emotion Research

Chapter 5: Assembling Melancholic and Grieving Musical Passages

Chapter 6: Redefining Sad Music: Music’s Structure Suggests at Least Two Sad States

Chapter 7: Melancholic and Grieving Music Express Different Affective States

Chapter 8: People Experience Different Emotions from Melancholic and Grieving Music

Chapter 9: Downstream Pro-Social Tendencies from Melancholic and Grieving Music: An Ethological Perspective

Chapter 10: The Importance of Utilizing Emotional Granularity in Music and Emotion Research

Chapter 11: Conclusions