• 2019/09/13
• Workshop Tutorial

As part of the pre-conference events at POLTEXT 2019 at Waseda University in Toyko, Stefan Müller conducted a workshop on Quantitative Text Analysis for Absolute Beginners. More information on the course can be found here.

• 2019/08/02
• Workshop Tutorial

Stefan Müller led a two-day workshop on quantitative text analysis using R and quanteda at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in Berne on 30-31 July 2019. Participants from the SNSF learned how to construct a corpus, import textual data, tokenize text, create a document-feature matrix, and train and evaluate supervised classifiers. These steps were not only applied to corpora from the quanteda package, but also to newspaper articles covering the Swiss National Science Foundation.

• 2019/07/02
• Workshop Tutorial

Ken Benoit led a two-day workshop on quantitative text analysis using R and quanteda at the University of Münster on 27-28 June 2019. Participants from the Department of Political Science learned how to import texts, construct a corpus, tokenize text, create a document-feature matrix, and conduct supervised and unsupervised text classification.

• 2019/05/02
• Workshop Tutorial

Stefan Müller led a two-day workshop on quantitative text analysis using R and quanteda at the University of Bergen on 25–26 April 2019. The workshop was open to scholars from all across the Faculty of Humanities. Researchers with backgrounds in political science, sociology, psychology, computer science, and linguistics participated in the event. Stefan covered topics such as constructing a corpus, importing textual data, tokenization, creating a document-feature matrix, applying and interpreting textual statistics, building supervised classifiers, as well as running and validating topic models.

• 2018/12/21
• Workshop Tutorial

Kenneth Benoit led an introductory workshop on quantitative text analysis using R and quanteda. The workshop took place on 9 December 2018 as a pre-sessional workshop in Canberra before the Annual Meeting of the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science. The tutorial provided an overview of R’s capabilities for natural language processing and text analysis. The tutorial also provided an introduction to and survey of quanteda’s capabilities, and suggestions for future learning in this area.

• 2018/09/19
• Workshop Tutorial

Kenneth Benoit and Stefan Müller will hold a two-day workshop on text-as-data approaches and the quanteda package on 22-23 November 2018 in Bremen. The event is organized by the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and SOCIUM. Kenneth Benoit will give a keynote speech on “Recent Advances in Quantitative Text Analysis”. Afterwards, Stefan Müller will conduct training sessions on topics such as importing textual data, tokenization, dictionary approaches, supervised and unsupervised learning, and topic modelling.

• 2018/01/28
• Workshop Tutorial

Kohei Watanabe and Stefan Müller held a workshop on quanteda on 31 January 2018, the day before the Manifesto Corpus Conference 2018 held from 1-2 February 2018 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. This event featured the newly launched new tutorial website that contains a step-by-step introduction to quantitative text analysis using quanteda.