Class Eight Checklist

Readings

  • GSR Ch. 11-13
  • SR Ch. 6
  • Valdez, D., Pickett, A. C., & Goodson, P. (2018). Topic modeling: latent semantic analysis for the social sciences. Social Science Quarterly, 99(5), 1665-1679.
  • Rice, D. (2019). Measuring the issue content of Supreme Court opinions. Journal of Law and Courts, 7(1), 107-127.
  • Roberts, M. E., Stewart, B. M., Tingley, D., et al.(2014). Structural topic models for open‐ended survey responses. American Journal of Political Science, 58(4), 1064-1082.

Homework

  • Practice Set (Class 8)

Class Eight Learning Objectives:

  • Clustering Algorithms
  • Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)
  • Structural Topic Models (STMs)


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