On May 30th we will have a workshop on Introduction to video analysis with Python by Christian Pipal
Details: bit.ly/4a70JHe
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🎧 New #Podcast ! 🎧

Prof. Sebastian Stier shares how web browsing data can be used in #CSS to get around API limitations and study digital behavior across platforms.

Super important research, check it out!👇
socialmediaandpolitics.simplecast.com/episodes/web-b…

Definitely worth attending!🤗

🎉 Join us this Wednesday at 🕒 3 pm CEST for a tada.cool talk on 'How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data' by the amazing Andreas Küpfer ⬇️

We have some exciting news to announce: preparations are under way for the launch this Fall of The COMPTEXT Association, a learned society to further text/image/video as data research in the social sciences and beyond. Please sign up for updates at shorturl.at/xyJZ7!

I also liked work with more “simple” #NLProc methods such as named entity recognition to find which cities German politicians tweet about, and then using that information to calculate all kinds things such as geographical distance, presented by Lukas Birkenmaier !

📢PUBLICATION ALERT🧵
Our new research in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media maps the global landscape of political microtargeting across 95 countries during 113 elections. Simon Kruschinski▲@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, Mads Hove, Tom Dobber, NHelberger is @[email protected], Claes de Vreese, and I analyze 2.5M FB & IG ads that ran from 2020 to 2022.

🔥Join our team: Post-Doc Opportunity in Computational Social Science Universität zu Köln European Research Council (ERC) 🔥

Job ad: api.stellenwerk.de/uploads/Wiss24… 🧵

Where are the research gaps in assessing social science data quality of old and new social science data types? Check our new review :) KODAQS GESIS with incredible Katrin Weller Indira Sen Leon Fröhling Jan Schwalbach Lukas Birkenmaier Tobias Gummer Henning Silber & C. Lechner.

We just published a paper on data quality in SSCR! Check the 🧵of Jan Schwalbach for a summary of our findings!:)

🌎 The R Graph Gallery now has about 50 map tutorials.

Choropleth, Hexbin, Bubble, Cartogram, Connections...

Most of the tutorials have JUST been updated to use {sf} thanks to dieghernan ن 🙏🙏🙏

Did you make a stunning map recently? I'm looking for polished examples!

New PhD position in Communication Science
ASCoR | @[email protected]!

Dr Linda Bos [email protected]🇺🇦, Michael Hameleers, and I are looking for a PhD candidate for a 4-year project to study the perceived threat of misinformation. Find more information here: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

Slides, 7 notebooks and a 4 hour Youtube video of my workshop 'Hands-on Transformers: Fine-Tune your own BERT and GPT' are available online! Thanks Hertie School Data Science Lab for having me on Saturday for the #data4good festival. Materials: github.com/MoritzLaurer/s…

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Job alert: Interested in (designed) digital data, e.g. from web trackers or Smartphones? Please consider applying for this PostDoc position (with possible tenure) at #CSS GESIS:
hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesi…
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Wir als Brand New Bundestag @brandnewbundestag.bsky.social haben Anfang März eine Kampagne gestartet, in der wir zusammen mit unseren Partnerorganisationen und mittlerweile mehr als 5.000 Menschen das Unternehmen PayPal Deutschland dazu aufrufen, die Konten der rechtsextremen AfD zu löschen - Thread

Great dissertation defense by Indira Sen on #nlp based #measurement of social constructs!🍾 Indira has always been at the forefront of combining social science concepts with SOTA computer science tools! Can’t wait to read what’s next in the pipeline Dr. Sen 🙌

Come and join Sven-Oliver Proksch 's team at the Comp Pol Cologne in Cologne!

I'll highlight six advantages of this position in a thread below 🧵 ...

... but please don't hesitate to DM or email me or talk to me in person at COMPTEXT (May 3-4 @ Amsterdam) ☺️