Research Methods and Technical Skills

Quantitative Analysis and Statistical Modeling
Statistical analysis, regression modeling, data management, and data visualization using R, Stata, and Python.

Computational Social Science and Text Analysis
Automated text analysis, topic modeling, semantic and lexical analysis, web scraping, and computational approaches to political and policy research.

Network Analysis
Ego network analysis and the study of relationships among policy actors, organizations, and advisory networks.

Qualitative Research
Qualitative content analysis, document analysis, and coding of unstructured data using NVivo.

Programming and Research Software
Python · R (ggplot2, dplyr) · Stata · NVivo

Specialized Academic Training

Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS)
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Training in computational social science, including data collection, web scraping, automated text analysis, and machine learning applications to social science research.

Intensive Training in Computer-Assisted Text Analysis (ATO)
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Training in semantic and lexical analysis, lexical specificity, dimensionality reduction, correspondence analysis, topic modeling, diachronic analysis, and quantitative text analysis using R.