Week 05
Supervised Learning II: Training your own classifiers
Topics
We will study the framework to train our own supervised models, and when to use them.
Readings
Required Readings
[GMB] - Chapters 17, 18, 19, and 20.
Applied Papers:
Barberá, Pablo, Amber E. Boydstun, Suzanna Linn, Ryan McMahon, and Jonathan Nagler. Automated text classification of news articles: A practical guide. Political Analysis 29, no. 1 (2021): 19-42.
Siegel, Alexandra A., Evgenii Nikitin, Pablo Barberá, Joanna Sterling, Bethany Pullen, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua A. Tucker. Trumping hate on Twitter? Online hate speech in the 2016 US election campaign and its aftermath. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 16, no. 1 (2021): 71-104.
Theocharis, Y., Barberá, P., Fazekas, Z., & Popa, S. A. (2020). The dynamics of political incivility on Twitter. Sage Open, 10(2), 2158244020919447.
Mitts, T., Phillips, G., & Walter, B. (2021). Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns. Journal of Politics
Coding Materials