PSRL

Political Science Research Lab

Research with computational methods.

At PSRL, we invest a lot of energy training students in applied data science, with a particular focus on data management, automated text analysis, and data visualization using R.

Workshops & Boot Camps


Schedule for Fall 2022 at BFSU.


Session 1: Introduction to R

September 7 2022.

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Session 2: Data visualization (I)

September 14 2022.

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Session 3: Data visualization (II)

September 21 2022.

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Session 4: Automated text analysis: key concepts

September 28 2022.

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Session 5: Dictionary methods

October 5 2022.

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Session 6: Sentiment analysis

October 12 2022.

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Session 7: Topic modeling

October 19 2022.

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Session 8: Machine learning

October 26 2022.

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