Auditorium A2, Maison de la paix, Geneva
Automated text analysis has become very popular across the social sciences, due to the large availability and access of text data from websites and social networks. Automated text analysis has been therefore recognised as a useful approach to analyse social and political behaviour. The workshop combines practical lectures in the morning (public) and optional coding sessions in the afternoon (registered only), with an emphasis on how to deal with practical issues throughout each step of the research process: data collection, analysis and visualisation. During this workshop, we will be using R. No prior knowledge of programming language is required.
This session is part of the 2-day Digital Skills Workshop Data Analysis in Various Contexts, which is open to all students of the Graduate Institute. To learn more and register, visit the workshop guide.
Valentina Baiamonte is a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant in International Relations / Political Science at the Graduate Institute (thesis “Lobbying beyond interests: A relational explanation of policy preferences”). She holds a MA in International relations from the University of Bologna and has previously organized workshops on automated text analysis and data collection, as well as contributed to R package "Roctopus" for network visualization.
Kars Aznavour works as an advisor for data and analytics and heads a team of data scientists at the International Committee of the Red Cross. He holds an MA from the Humboldt University of Berlin, specializing in media culture and philosophy, as well as an MA and a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva where he conducted research in the international history, politics and economics of telecommunications.