Dad Joke
For years, my parents sent me to a child psychologist.
That kid didn’t help me at all.
Housekeeping
- Data cleaning group project
- Time to start thinking seriously about data collection
- Reach out if you are stuck
Approaches to Computational Text Analysis
- Simple can be powerful
- Custom dictionaries or LIWC
- Using word co-location to identify new dictionary words
- TF-IDF
- More for identifying key terms, less for hypothesis testing
- Somewhat inductive
Approaches to Computational Text Analysis
- Topic modeling
- Inductive
- Computational grounded theory
- Word embeddings
- Can “interrogate” a set of texts