1/5 Interested in learning how to collect and analyze social media data using topic models, text networks, or word2vec? I'm pleased to announce I am releasing an open source version of my "Text as Data" class from Duke's Data Science program: cbail.github.io/textasdata/Tex… 
2/5 The course website (above) includes tutorials on a range of subjects with annotated R code. The class assumes basic knowledge of R and describes the techniques we use in the @polarization lab to run studies like this: pnas.org/content/115/37… and this: pnas.org/content/113/42…
3/5 All datasets used in the tutorials are hosted on my Github site, which also includes all source files for the tutorials themselves: github.com/cbail
4/5 If you would be so kind—and know how to use Github—please help me make this course better by making pull requests at this repo: github.com/cbail/textasda… (I’m quite sure I’ve messed up more than a few things :)
5/5 If you want to learn more about the field of computational social science, check out the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science: compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institu…, and watch lectures from previous events here: bit.ly/2QT5lM2
