Dedicated to all things related to the analysis of text as data and text analytics. Maintained by @kenbenoit.

Joined February 2015
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We’ve also split the text models (for scaling and classification) into a new package quanteda.textmodels github.com/quanteda/quanteda… also on #CRAN and has new functions for fast linear SVM classifiers for sprase text matrices #rstats #quanteda #textanalysis #nlp
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#quanteda package v2 is released! Since v1: - 2 yrs (2018-01-28) - 2484 commits - 285 closed PRs - 350 closed issues Read all about it on the QI blog blog.quanteda.org/2020/02/27… Thanks @kenbenoit @koheiw7 @ste_mueller @amatsuo_net for all the hard work!! #rstats #textanalysis #nlp

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R and Python text analysis packages performance comparison - updated koheiw.net/?p=1141

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24 Jan 2019
Replying to @ste_mueller
@ste_mueller @textasdata First time applying my own sentiment dictionary via #quanteda. Extremely convenient and significantly faster. Thanks for all your efforts on this!
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Our first seminar is happening Thursday 24 Jan: 'The 10 Most Important Things I've Learned about Quantitative Text Analysis', with Prof Kenneth Benoit ow.ly/xb1C30nnSc3 @kenbenoit @compassUoA
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Submit your papers now to poltextconference.org/submit… for this exciting #textanalysis #textasdata event!

We are organizing #POLTEXT conference in Sep 2019 in Tokyo (poltextconference.org/). This would be the first text analysis conference in Japan. @jbslapin and @amycatalinac are coming for keynote speeches. Why don't you submit your papers?
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9 Nov 2018
Do you get tired at the thought of having to analyse vast amounts of text, like Donald Trump’s 40,000 tweets? quanteda @textasdata is a fast, flexible, and comprehensive framework for quantitative text analysis in R. #LSEResearchShowcase ℹ️: bit.ly/2R3hMBu
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Hey #textasdata peeps at #TADA2018, check out the newly launched website(s) for the Quanteda Initiative, an organization set up to advance open-source software development for text analysis, especially #quanteda and related R packages. @textasdata quanteda.org

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Join @StatHorizons for a 2-day "Text as Data" seminar in Philadelphia on May 31-June 1. Early registration pricing through Monday: statisticalhorizons.com/semi…

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Kicking off #textdevworkshop2018 at @NYUDataScience with a roundtable on #NLP.
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New version v0.99 of #rstats #spacyr package (with @amatsuo_net) on CRAN. New features are auto-installation of not only @spacy_io but also Python itself!
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The @NYUDataScience @rOpenSci conference on text software development begins with a roundtable on #NLP vs #textasdata!
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全新的quanteda简介 - New quanteda vignette in Chinese! docs.quanteda.io/articles/pk… #rstats #quanteda #textasdata

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#quanteda v0.99 now on CRAN, major update with many new features and performance enhancements #rstats #textanalysis quanteda.io

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Reminder: tomorrow from 3pm, @jna_sh will be joining us to demonstrate @github Education. Please RSVP to seds.admin@lse if you're coming! x.com/SEDS_LSE/status/860403…

Join us next Friday with @jna_sh who will give a demonstration on the use of @GitHub as an educational tool lse.ac.uk/seds/event/using-g… … RSVP
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Check out our new website for the #rstats package #quanteda, quanteda.io. #textasdata #nlp

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"The power of words: Content analysis for political science" - From the @ProvalisRes blog provalisresearch.com/blog/co…

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