Doctoral Training Centre Workshop: Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis (PhD Student Only) (few places remaining)
Date:
02/12/2014
Organised by:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Presenter:
Iulia Cioroianu
Level:
Advanced (specialised prior knowledge)
Contact:
John Fyson, 020 7955 7639
Description:
This workshop presents an overview of the main methods and tools used by social scientists to: a) pre-process text documents for quantitative analysis; b) compare documents and measure their similarity; c) classify text documents into categories; and d) extract the topics discussed in a text. In the lab session we will apply the methods covered in lecture to various types of text, such as party manifestos and social media posts.
Session Date: 10am-4pm, Tuesday 2 December 2014
**Please note that this workshop is only available to current PhD Students (failure to produce a valid student ID card will result in no admittance to the event)**
Cost:
£30
Website and registration:
http://eshop.lse.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&prodid=1348
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Quantitative Approaches (other), Quantitative Software, Python, R
Related publications and presentations:
Quantitative Approaches (other)
Quantitative Software
Python
R