APSA Workshop 2015
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1. List of R packages to install before workshop. To install them, open R on your machine, then type – install.packages(“name of package”) . You will be asked to choose a mirror site. It doesn’t matter which you use.
2, Files to download before workshop
Labeled reviews for R twitter exercise
Three FOMC files for R sample script one two three
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OTHER MATERIALS
Original email to participants
Intro to Python (no slides)
Regular Expressions slides (they are the bomb!)
R SCRIPTS
R Sample Script tm (scraping urls (website pages), data prep, and wordcloud)
R Sample Script quanteda (same script but using the new quanteda package rather than tm)
R NYT API Script (searching NYT articles for keywords, using NLP package to investigate ‘parts of speech” (POS) in selected articles)
R Twitter API Script labeled reviews data file (includes data cleaning and supervised machine learning (rtexttools) application)
R_LDA_Script (topic modeling) qb_race.zip data file
Python Intro (iPython notebook version)
Python Intro (ordinary)
PYTHON SCRIPTS
Preprocessing and summarizing results
The syllabus for Wilkerson’s course (always a work in progress), can be found here
Many additional Python scripts (accomplishing different tasks) can be found here