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733. Theorizing Folklore from the Margins (05:58)

Date:
June 15, 2021
Main contributors:
Juan Eduardo Wolf
Summary:
Performance examples to accompany the chapter "Un Tumbe Ch'ixi" in "Theorizing Folklore from the Margins"

734. WIM | Statistical models for forecasting American elections (1:01:00)

Date:
October 9, 2020
Main contributors:
G. Elliott Morris
Summary:
G. Elliott Morris is a data journalist at The Economist and writes mostly about American politics and elections, usually by engaging in a close study of political science, political polling and dem...

735. WIM | Text Mining in Python for Social Scientists (1:46:00)

Date:
October 23, 2020
Main contributors:
Helge-Johannes Marahrens
Summary:
Textual data are central to the social sciences. However, they often require several pre-processing steps before they can be utilized for statistical analyses. This workshop introduces a range of P...

736. WIM | Technical Forecasting of Political Conflict (1:19:00)

Date:
November 13, 2020
Main contributors:
Dr. Philip Schrodt
Summary:
Over the past couple of decades, technical models, both statistical, machine learning and combinations of these methods, for forecasting various forms of political conflict, including protest, viol...

737. WIM | Webscraping and APIs Using Python for Social Scientists (1:50:00)

Date:
September 18, 2020
Main contributors:
Helge-Johannes Marahrens; Anne Kavalerchik
Summary:
In recent years, social scientists have increased their efforts to access new datasets from the web or from large databases. An easy way to access such data are Application Programming Interfaces (...

738. Virtual Book Event with Megan Rosenbloom (58:15)

Date:
October 26, 2020
Main contributors:
Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981-
Summary:
Virtual book event held on October 26, 2020 featuring librarian and author Megan Rosenbloom as she discusses her new book, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of...