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From Text to Insights: Building and Analyzing Custom Political Event Data
August 11 @ 10:00 am - August 15 @ 3:00 pm EDT
An ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods Topical Workshop
Automated tools and best practices for creating event datasets from text sources.
Goals: Learning how event data sets are constructed, techniques for efficiency producing custom event datasets, and learning techniques for analyzing event data.
Learning Outcomes:
- How to efficiently create a custom event dataset using automated tools
- Best practices for creating custom event data
- Using code for identifying events, resolving actors to Wikipedia, and geoparsing events
- Spatial- and network-based techniques for analyzing event data
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