Day 1 - Sept. 30th - 10am to 5pm (roughly) - Overview of Text Analysis

The first day will combine a comprehensive overview of quantitative text analysis with an introduction to the structure, logic, and syntax of the quanteda text analysis package. Topics will include:

• an introduction to quantitative text analysis and its workflow
• a comprehensive map of quantitative text analysis including the main techniques used in political and social science
• an overview of quanteda and how to use it to create core objects for textual analysis.

Day 2 - Oct. 1st - 10am to 5pm (roughly) - Describing, comparing, and scaling texts

The second day will use a few running examples including:

• identifying key words based on statistical association measures
• identifying multi-word expressions via collocation analysis
• computing and interpreting textual statistics for comparing texts
• using bootstrapping to measure uncertainty in texts
• computing similarities and distances for identifying clusters of similar texts.

Day 3 - Oct. 2nd - 10am to 2:30pm (must end before Colonialism workshop) - Advanced text analysis

The final day will cover advanced methods including:

• feature weighting and feature selection for textual matrices;
• supervised and unsupervised document scaling for measuring ideological positions;
• supervised machine learning for document classification; and
• topic modelling.

The presentation is part of the colloquium "Internationalised Politics" and will take online via zoom.

The link will be shared before the session. 

The internal workshop on the diffusion of Global Social Policy will mark the first stage of a collaboration of all projects in the A pillar of the CRC 1342. We will use a network approach to understand the effect of exposure to previous adopters on the diffusion of welfare policies across the globe and each project will participate with their own set of indicators. The goal is to create a comprehensive, unified comparison between policy fields.

The workshop discusses contributions for an edited volume on causal mechanisms and social insurance institutions.

The workshop discusses contributions for an edited volume on causal mechanisms and social insurance institutions.

The workshop will bring together CRC researchers in order to discuss papers for a planned Special Issue on causal mechanisms and transnational social policy dynamics.

All CRC projects will present their first results. The presentations should be around 10 to 15 minutes, followed by a brief discussion.

The programme of the 4 workshops in detail: download.

All CRC projects will present their first results. The presentations should be around 10 to 15 minutes, followed by a brief discussion.

The programme of the 4 workshops in detail: download.