Aiming for the Moon
Aiming for the Moon
Aiming for the Moon
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 Posted Jul 9, 2022 at 1:00 pm.
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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.

Topics:

  • 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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