PRS: Practicing Research Skills

Computational Approaches

in Political and Social

Sciences

Week 2B: Text Analysis and Data Preparation. Wed 12 June

Diliara Valeeva and Eelke Heemskerk

Plan for Week 2

Mon 10 June: Pentecost

Wed 12 June: Introduction to data

Fri 14 June: Group meetups

     => Writing a Data Portfolio

Plan for today

1. Reflections

2. Skills tutorial on text analysis

3. Writing a data portfolio

4. Data preparation

1. Reflections

2. Skills tutorial on text analysis

3. Data Portfolio

Data Portfolio

1. Question

2. Data description

3. Data cleaning steps

4. Strength and weaknesses

* max 1000 words, not graded

Deadline: Friday 14 June, 17.00

1. Question

• Briefly mention the question that you are planning to answer using this dataset

2. Data description

• How large is your dataset? Mention the number of cases and variables.

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• What are the most important variables that you are planning to use for your data analysis?

3. Data cleaning steps

• How are you planning to clean and prepare your dataset for the analysis?

4. Strengths and weaknesses

• Describe the strength(s) and/or weakness(es) of your dataset.

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• If you have several datasets, how would they complement each other and help you to answer your question in a better way?

Reading list on data

Find on Canvas:

Modules => Week 2 => Reading list for week 2

4. Data preparation

Discussion

• Do you know which dataset(s) will you use?

• How will you prepare it for the analysis?

• Which additional dataset(s) or information will you need for the analysis?

Group meetups

Friday 14 June

Key players: 9.00 - 9.20

Neighbors: 9.20 - 9.40

Past and Present: 9.40 - 10.00

Success online: 10.10 - 10.30

Success offline: 10.30 - 10.50