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
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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
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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.
- 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
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