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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

• 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. 

Homework due

• content analysis of a set of comparable texts

Handouts

• Introduction to Grounded Theory [html]

  • Example of field and code notes

  • Themes and memes analysis

• Borgatti. Coding [html]

• Content analysis

  • ppt on content analysis

  • Content analysis process [html]

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

• LIWC

• Borgatti. Notes on Professional Vision  

Data

• obituaries

Notes

• Notes | Text

Additional readings

• King, Gary/ Keohane, Robert O./ Verba, Sidney: Designing Social Inquiry. Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, p. 3. Princeton University Press, 1994.