Kenneth Benoit and Stefan Müller organized a three-day workshop on Quantitative Text Analysis using quanteda at the University of Bremen from 30 September to 2 October 2020.
The workshop covered topics such as an quantitative text analysis and its workflow, an overview of quanteda and how to use it to create core objects, identifying key words based on statistical association measures, identifying multi-word expressions via collocation analysis, computing similarities and distances for clustering, feature weighting and feature selection for textual matrices, dictionary analysis, scaling and classification, and document scaling for measuring ideological positions.
More information on training and dissemination activities by the Quanteda Initiative and how to organize such an event can be found on our website at Services.