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Patrick van Kessel
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Pew Research Center: Decoded
Sep 24, 2021
Are topic models reliable or useful?
The final post in our series examines how topic models can and…
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Patrick van Kessel
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Sep 24, 2021
How keyword oversampling can help with text analysis
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Laura Silver
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Oct 14, 2020
Testing survey questions ahead of time can help sharpen a poll’s focus
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Patrick van Kessel
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Aug 1, 2019
Interpreting and validating topic models
Interpreting topics from a model can be more difficult than…
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Laura Silver
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May 14, 2019
Who’s home and who isn’t? The challenges of conducting face-to-face interviews in Jordan
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Patrick van Kessel
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Apr 10, 2019
Overcoming the limitations of topic models with a semi-supervised approach
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Skye Toor
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Feb 14, 2019
Avoiding technical debt in social science research
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Paul Hitlin
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Sep 5, 2018
Q&A: What works and what doesn’t when studying social media data
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Patrick van Kessel
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Aug 13, 2018
Making sense of topic models
Topic models can produce clusters of words that characterize written…
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Patrick van Kessel
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Pew Research Center: Decoded
Aug 13, 2018
An intro to topic models for text analysis
Topic models can scan documents, examine words and phrases…
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