Readings

  1. Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts
    Political Analysis, 2013, 21 (3): 267-297
    Justin Grimmer and Brandon M. Stewart

  2. quanteda: Quick Start Guide
    Tutorial, 2019
    Kenneth Benoit and Paul Nulty

  3. Life of Brian Revisited: Assessing Informational and Non-Informational Leadership Tools
    Political Science Research & Methods, 2013, 1 (1): 139-157
    Alexander Baturo and Slava Mikhaylov

Additional useful readings

  1. Text Preprocessing for Unsupervised Learning: Why it Matters, When it Misleads, and What to Do About it
    Political Analysis, 2018, 26 (2): 168-189
    Matthew J. Denny and Arthur Spirling

Articles mentioned in lecture

  1. Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments
    Virginia Law Review, 2017, 103 (7): 1379-1496
    Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers

  2. Appropriators not Position Takers: The Distorting Effects of Electoral Incentives on Congressional Representation
    American Journal of Political Science, 2013, 57 (3): 624-642
    Justin Grimmer

  3. More Effective Than We Thought: Accounting for Legislative Hitchhikers Reveals a More Inclusive and Productive Lawmaking Process
    American Journal of Political Science, 2020, 64 (1): 5-18
    Andreu Casas, Matthew J. Denny, and John Wilkerson

  4. Measuring Group Differences in High-Dimensional Choices: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
    Econometrica, 2019, 87 (4): 1307-1340
    Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Matt Taddy

  5. Islamophobia and Media Portrayals of Muslim Women: A Computational Text Analysis of US News Coverage
    International Studies Quarterly, 2017, 613 (3): 489-502
    Rochelle Terman

  6. U.S. Treaty Making with American Indians: Institutional Change and Relative Power, 1784–1911
    American Journal of Political Science, 2012, 56 (1): 84-97
    Arthur Spirling

  7. Who Leads? Who Follows? Measuring Issue Attention and Agenda Setting by Legislators and the Mass Public Using Social Media Data
    American Political Science Review, 2019, 113 (3): 883-901
    Pablo Barberá, Andreu Casas, Jonathan Nagler, Patrick J. Egan, Richard Bonneau, John T. Jost, and Joshua A. Tucker

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