July 09, 2022

92. The Next Frontier of Social Science - Text as Data: Dr. Justin Grimmer (Co-author of "Text as Data" and Prof. in Stanford's Political Science Department)

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Dr. Justin Grimmer, Professor in Stanford University's Department of Political Science and co-author of Text as Data, and I discuss how and why turning text into data will be the future of the social sciences.

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Researching in the social sciences now
How machine learning turns text into data
Privacy and data
Examples and impact
How to develop a career in this intersection of machine learning and social science

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Dr. Justin Grimmer is a Professor in Stanford University's Department of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Co-Director of the Democracy and Polarization Lab. His research focuses on Congress, elections, social media, and data science.

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July 09, 2022

92. The Next Frontier of Social Science - Text as Data: Dr. Justin Grimmer (Co-author of "Text as Data" and Prof. in Stanford's Political Science Department)

21 minutes

Send us a text

Researching in the social sciences now
How machine learning turns text into data
Privacy and data
Examples and impact
How to develop a career in this intersection of machine learning and social science