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A 3-Day Remote Seminar Taught by Brandon Stewart, Ph.D.

Never before in human history has so much information been so easy to access. The promise of this wealth of information is immense, but because of its pure volume it is difficult to summarize and interpret. However, a burgeoning array of algorithms and statistical methods are beginning to make analysis of this information possible. These new forms of data and new statistical techniques provide opportunities to observe behavior that was previously unobservable, to measure quantities of interest that were previously unmeasurable, and to test hypotheses that were previously impossible to test.

This seminar will overview the field of “Text as Data” with an emphasis on the social sciences. The course is organized around the tasks in the research process: discovery, measurement and inference. We will introduce methods from natural language processing and machine learning (such as clustering, topic modeling, supervised classification, etc.) while demonstrating through applications how they can be incorporated into the research process. Implementation of the methods will be demonstrated using the R programming language.