Summer Timetable
POL2578H1F L0101
Topics in Methods
Computer-Assisted Textual Analysis
Themes
This course introduces graduate students to the state of the art in the field of computer-assisted textual analysis. The course includes an introduction to the Python programming language and seeks to achieve a balance between theory, concrete applications and lab exercises. We cover a wide range of methods, from basic statistics to advanced notions in natural language processing. In particular, the course features an introduction to machine learning and topic modelling (e.g. Latent Dirichlet Allocation), with illustrations based on real-world political corpora. By the end of this course, graduate students should be able to apply a variety of tools for textual analysis in their own research.
Texts
TBA
Format and Requirements
Familiarity with statistics (at the level of POL 2504 or equivalent) is strongly recommended for this course.
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...