Quantitative text analysis

Weeklong workshop co-taught with Francisco Beltrán Tapia, provided an in-depth introduction to quantitative and computational methods, covering some of the techniques most widely used in research in the historical and social sciences.

Half-day course discussing commonly used methods in quantitative text analysis.

Through a survey of the most frequently used tools of computational text analysis and an overview of their uses to date across the social sciences and humanities, this article shows how such methods can provide economic and business historians tools to respond to and engage with the ‘narrative turn’ in economics while also building on and offering a macro-level corrective to the focus on narrative in history.

Two-day hands-on course teaching basic methods of quantitative text analysis and visualization in R.