Many people have reported problems when attempting to install the R package `topicmodels` on R when using OS X Mavericks or Yosemite. The problem is that the binaries are not yet built for these versions of OS X, and you need additional software installed in order to build the source.
New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data Workshop (2013)
Schedule: Version 26 September 2013
London School of Economics and Political Science
Friday, September 27, 2012, 8:30 – Saturday, September 28, 2012, 17:00
Quantitative Text Analysis 2F
Essex Summer School 2013
Instructor: Prof Kenneth Benoit, LSE
TAs: Dr. Paul Nulty, LSE; Petra Martina Baumann, U. Salzburg
Course handout
Day 1:Introduction and Issues in Quantitative Text Analysis
Here are the slides and files from my “Unsupervised Text Scaling Methods” workshop in our MY560 series from June 11, 2013.
Slides here Lab Exercise here Files for lab exercise: the amicus briefs and the Irish 2010 budget speeches
Computer-Assisted Text Analysis
Essex Summer School
Prof Kenneth Benoit, LSE
Dr. Paul Nulty, LSE
NOTE: Krippendorf 3rd ed. text is now available from the summer school office!
Course handout
Day 1:Introduction and Issues in Quantitative Text Analysis
Job opening: Research Officer in Quantitative Text Analysis
Duration: 24 months Start Date: 1 March 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter Salary: £31,998 – £38,737 p.a. incl.
Applications are invited for the post of Research Officer, to assist with a principal research officer for the European Research Council funded grant Quantitative Text Analysis for the Social Sciences (QUANTESS).
A brilliant cartoon from Craphound:
Just finished teaching at the Essex Summer School in Data Analysis, Session 1. Got a lot of technical questions from my class…
Technical questions
This is painfully funny… if completely, ahem, unfounded.
The recently formed European Political Science Association has just issued a call for papers for its 1st Annual General Conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland from June 16-18, 2011. The conference takes place in the excellent Guinness Storehouse Conference Centre.
I’ve accepted a position at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where I will be Professor and Head of the Methodology Institute from January 2011.
My workplace from Jan 2011
My forecast of the final parliamentary seat distribution for the Hungarian elections is the following:
Fidesz: 264 seats (68.4%)
MSZP: 58 seats (15%)
Jobbik: 48 seats (12.4%)
LMP: 16 seats (4.
My forecast of the final parliamentary seat distribution for the Hungarian elections is the following:
Fidesz: 264 seats (68.4%)
MSZP: 58 seats (15%)
Jobbik: 48 seats (12.4%)
LMP: 16 seats (4.
See Keisuke Hirano’s Haiku page. Here is one of my favorites:
T-stat looks too good.
Use robust standard errors–
significance gone.
Interviewing techniques for academic research, Dr. Jacqueline Hayden
Friday January 22nd and 29th
Location: Room 3131 Arts Block (Podcast/Video Recording and playback facility)
Time: 9-11 am and 12-1pm
Note: Room 3131 is booked by the English Dept.
Fully-funded studentships are available for study in the PhD programme in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, paying tuition plus a stipend of up to €15,000 per year.
Application for this financial support is automatically considered as part of the normal admissions process.