Text as Data (eBook)

A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences

Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20799-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities, and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning tools are rapidly transforming the way science and business are conducted. Text as Data shows how to combine new sources of data, machine learning tools, and social science research design to develop and evaluate new insights.Text as Data is organized around the core tasks in research projects using text-representation, discovery, measurement, prediction, and causal inference. The authors offer a sequential, iterative, and inductive approach to research design. Each research task is presented complete with real-world applications, example methods, and a distinct style of task-focused research.Bridging many divides-computer science and social science, the qualitative and the quantitative, and industry and academia-Text as Data is an ideal resource for anyone wanting to analyze large collections of text in an era when data is abundant and computation is cheap, but the enduring challenges of social science remain.Overview of how to use text as dataResearch design for a world of data delugeExamples from across the social sciences and industry

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 41 b/w illus. 27 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Absolute difference • Accountability • Accuracy and precision • Allusion • Ambiguity • Analysis • Annotation • author • Bayesian Network • Burstiness • Business Ethics • Categorization • causal inference • Causality • Censorship • Close reading • cluster analysis • Codebook • Coding (social sciences) • Complexity • Computation • Computational resource • Computer Scientist • computing • Concept • Conceptualization (information science) • confounding • Consumer Complaint • content analysis • Covariate • Covid-19 • Criticism • critique • Cross-validation (statistics) • Curse of Dimensionality • Data Science • data set • Dictionary attack • digital humanities • Dimension • E. H. Carr • electoral reform • Email Client • email spam • Embedding • Empirical Research • Engineering • Essay • estimation • Everyday life • Explanation • face validity • far-left politics • Field Experiment • foreign policy • foreign worker • freedom of speech • Function model • future value • general knowledge • Generative model • grammar • Great Leap Forward • Grounded Theory • Hand coding • hierarchical clustering • High- and low-level • Humanities • hypothesis • Ideology • Indication (medicine) • inductive reasoning • inference • Information sensitivity • Instance (computer science) • Intellectual history • International Trade • Internet Censorship • Item response theory • Iteration • KPR • Language of mathematics • Latent Dirichlet Allocation • Latent Variable • law firm • Literary criticism • Literature • Loss Function • machine learning • Manifesto • Measurement • Methodology • Mixture model • Multitude • Naive Bayes classifier • national security • natural language • Natural science • Neuroscience • News conference • newspaper • N-gram • nonverbal communication • Notation • Observation • observational study • Ontology (information science) • Ordinary Least Squares • Parameter (computer programming) • party platform • Patriotism • Philosophy • philosophy of science • Political Campaign • Political Science • Politics • Precision and recall • Prediction • Prevalence • Principle • Probability • pronoun • Qualitative research • quantitative research • Quantity • Randomization • Rare Disease • raw data • reason • Recommendation (European Union) • Recommender System • Regularization (mathematics) • Religion • Research Program • result • Sampling (Statistics) • school of thought • Scientific Method • Secularization • self-hatred • small number • Social Science • Softmax function • sorting • spectral method • Speech Recognition • statistical model • Statistics • stylometry • subject (philosophy) • Suggestion • supervised learning • Synonym • Tag Cloud • Technological Change • Test set • Test Theory • Text corpus • theory • Thought • Tom Coburn • topic model • Twitter • Unemployment • Unintended Consequences • University of Illinois Press • Usability • vocabulary • Voting • Word Embedding • Writing • Writing Style
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20799-2 / 0691207992
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20799-5 / 9780691207995