How did parties campaign for the #EU2024 Parliament elections? Together with @wiebkedrews, @andreas_neumeie and @RiedlJasmin from @projekt_sparta, we published the EUDigiParty data set today including social media handles, website links etc. of 401 European parties. Link follows!
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🇪🇺 Yesterday the draft delegated act on data access under the DSA was published! After taking some time to read the draft act I would like to share my 5 main take-aways from a researcher perspective:
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❓ A question that takes some more time to think is: What is still missing?
One aspect, for instance, I did not see addressed is a data quality control mechanism for data provided.
The op-ed also underlines the importance of an independent entity to test data infrastructures and data quality of research data provided under DSA Art 40 🇪🇺
An exciting job opportunity at the University of Manchester to work on the UKRI funded 'smart data' project DIGISURVOR. Linking DIGItal trace and SURVey data for Open Research jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/Jo…
Many fields—including psychology, sociology, communications, political science, and computer science— use computational methods to analyze text data.
We find that the all versions of #GPT are capable of accurately detecting various psychological constructs in text across 12 languages,
Using simple prompts and no additional training data. GPT thus overcomes the limitations present in existing text analysis methods.
For instance, GPT (r = 0.59 to 0.77) performed much better than dictionaries (r = 0.20 to 0.30) at detecting psychological constructs.
GPT is also effective in several lesser-spoken languages.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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How did parties campaign for the #EU2024 Parliament elections? Together with @wiebkedrews, @andreas_neumeie and @RiedlJasmin from @projekt_sparta, we published the EUDigiParty data set today including social media handles, website links etc. of 401 European parties. Link follows!
and the title is crisp as always: "The EUDigiParty data set: The digital campaigning presence of 401 political parties during the European Parliament election 2024 including websites and social media handles on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, and YouTube" 😄