I have presented my latest study on Sputnik News at ECPR Hamburg. This study shows that Russia is using conspiracy theory in Sputnik News articles to promote anti-establishment sentiment in the United State and Britain. The paper and slides are available.
Presentation at R user meeting in Tokyo
I have presented Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data with R at a TokyoR event on 15th July hosted by Yahoo Japan. This was a great opportunity for me to reach out broad Japanese R users and tell them how easy it is to analyze Asian texts using quanteda. It was also really nice to meet […]
Obstruction to Asian-language text analysis
In a presentation titled Internationalizing Text Analysis at a workshop on the 27th June at Waseda University, I and Oul Han discussed what obstructing adoption of quantitative text analysis techniques in Japan and Korea. Our question is why there are only few people who do quantitative analysis of Japanese and Korean texts, despite it is […]
New page on how to perform Japanese texts
We have added a new page to Quanteda Tutorials website on special handling of Japanese texts. This page will be used in Quantitative Political Methodology at Kobe University in the next week. This page summarizes my posts about Japanese text analysis in this blog. We are planing to add pages about other languages.
Presentation at BEAMS workshop
I presented a technique for a longitudinal analysis of media content at BEAMS (Behavioral and Experimental Analyses in Macro-finance) workshop at Waseda University.
Quantitative text analysis workshop at PolText 2018
I was invited to deliver a workshop on quantitative text analysis at PolText Incubator Workshop at Hungarian Academy of Science on 9 May 2018. Workshop materials are available in my Github repo.
Building text analysis models using Quanteda
At the LSE Computational Social Science hackathon, I presented how to develop text analysis models using quanteda‘s core API’s such as as.tokens(), as.dfm() and pattern2id(). All the slides and the files available are in my Github repository.
Analyze big data with small RAM
A lot of people are using quanteda to analyze social media posts because it is very fast and flexible, but they sometimes face dramatic slow down due to memory swapping caused by insufficient sizes of RAM. quanteda requires the size of RAM to be 5 times larger than the data to analyze, but it can […]
Relaxing R version requirement
Until quanteda v1.1, our users needed to have R 3.4.0 installed, but we relax the requirement to R 3.1.0, because people working in companies or other large organizations often do not have latest version of R in their computers, and therefore cannot use our package. To investigate why quanteda requires R 3.4.0 quickly, I wrote […]
PhD thesis is now archived
My PhD thesis titled Measuring bias in international news: a large-scale analysis of news agency coverage of the Ukraine crisis has been archived electronically in the LSE Library and become publicly available. This thesis is a compilation of research papers, three of which have already been published, but its grand conclusion is more than a […]