SICSS-Edinburgh

Instructors: Christopher Barrie (Sociology), Karen Gregory (Sociology), Tod Van Gunten (Sociology), Walid Magdy (Informatics), and Björn Ross (Informatics).

Course description: This repo is for materials used in the SICSS-Edinburgh 2022 summer school held at the University of Edinburgh.

Day 1

General Intro., Ethics, and CSS

• Intro. slides: here

APIs Intro.

• Intro. and auth. slides: here

Twitter API: tweet counts

• Code slides: here
• Applied slides: here
• Script(s): here

Twitter API: tweet content

• Code slides: here
• Applied slides: here
• Script(s): here

Twitter API: tweeters

• Code slides: here
• Applied slides: here
• Script(s): here

Scraping Intro.

• Intro. slides: here

Scraping: online documents

• Code slides: here
• Notebook: here
• Script(s): here

Speaker slides

• Slides: here

Day 2

Computational Methods

• Slides: here

Digital Qualitative Methods

• Slides: here
• Exercise: here

Day 3

Network research

• Slides: here
• Materials: here

Speaker slides

• Slides: here

Day 4

Computational Text Analysis

• Slides: here

• Code slides: here

• Notebook 1: here

• Notebook 2: here

Classification

• Slides: here

Day 5

Text classification in practice

• Slides: here

• Notebook 1: here

• Notebook 2: here

• Notebook 3: here

• Notebook 4: here

Speaker slides

• Slides: here