As part of a project I’m working on dealing with how immigration is framed, I had downloaded all tweets from the accounts of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders from November 1, 2015 until November 9, 2016. This time period covered both the Republican and Democratic primaries, their conventions, and the general elections.
(Originally posted on my old blog on Jan 9, 2014) As part of the content analysis I am doing for my dissertation, I’ve started to look at using Python to scrape documents from the web, as well as clean them up for analysis. In theory this should save me lots of man-hours of work; in…
(Originally posted on my old blog on Dec. 9, 2013) I’ve had several colleagues ask about using content analysis, so I’ve decided to put together a list of links and other resources in one spot. A word on the qual vs. quant divide. Basically, when it comes to text as data, for me, your research…
