Political Texts as Data
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Work in progress from the MARDY research project

Claim classification in news reports using R

In this post I demonstrate how to use the models developed in MARDY to identify and classify headlines from news reports (from the German Tagesschau and the British Guardian)…
May 5, 2023
Nico Blokker

Visualizing Wahl-O-Mat & zero-shot classification

The Wahl-O-Mat probably is Germany’s most popular voting-advice-application. Users can compare…
Feb 14, 2023
Nico Blokker

Qualitative Content Analysis meets SBERT

Qualitative content analysis (QCA) is like programming – easy, until you start coding. It is also a powerful tool that lets you annotate and categorize (code) text…
Feb 9, 2023
Nico Blokker & André Blessing (MARDY)

About the authors

Nico Blokker is a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (University of Bremen, Germany). He is interested in policy analysis…
Feb 8, 2023
Nico Blokker
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