From Text to Insights: Building and Analyzing Custom Political Event Data

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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