Text as a source of data

Course description

The aim of the course is to provide students with a preliminary overview ofa fewdifferent methodologies used to convert digital text into input for economic research.

Topics

  • Dictionary basedmethods
  • “Text Regressions”
  • Supervised Machine Learning Methods
  • Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods

 

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