This Methods Bites Tutorial by Cosima Meyer summarizes Cornelius Puschmann’s workshop in the MZES Social Science Data Lab in January 2019 on advancing text mining with R and the package quanteda. Extracting, processing, and analyzing this oasis of information becomes increasingly relevant for a large variety of research fields. Most of our datasets rely on (hand-coded) textual information. Is it puzzling that this data source is so popular right now? Actually no.

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