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A quick introduction to text analysis, with an emphasis on formal / quantitative approaches.

Topics

• grounded theory

• open and closed coding

• content analysis

• sentiment analysis

• topic modeling

Readings

• Gersick, Bartunek & Dutton. 2000. Learning from Academia: The importance of relationships in professional life. Academy of Management Journal 43(6): 1026-1044. [^pdf],

• Blei, D.M., Ng, A.Y. and Jordan, M.I., 2003. Latent dirichlet allocation. Journal of machine Learning research, 3(Jan), pp.993-1022. [pdf] (just skim this)

Use of ChatGPT in coding texts (optional)

• Theelen, H., Vreuls, J., & Rutten, J. (2024). Doing Research with Help from ChatGPT: Promising Examples for Coding and Inter-Rater Reliability. International Journal of Technology in Education, 7(1), 1-18. 

Handouts

• Introduction to Grounded Theory [html]

  • Example of field and code notes

  • Themes and memes analysis

• What to look for when open-coding text [html]

• Coding [html]

• Content analysis

  • ppt on content analysis

  • Content analysis process [html]

• LIWC summary measures

• Measuring inter-coder reliability

Exercises

• coding exercise

• Results of coding exercise

Data

• obituaries

• friends, demos

• FriendDef

• LIWC results for FriendDef data

Notes

• Agenda | Text

• Notes | Text

R scripts

• Dec04.R

• Dec04ap.R 

• Dec04ca.R

Resources

• liwc manual

• Baby name visualizer