/Computational-Social-Science-Tutorials

This respository includes brief tutorials, tid-bits, tips and tricks for various Computational Social Science applications.

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Computational Social Science Tutorials

This respository includes brief tutorials, tid-bits, tips and tricks for various Computational Social Science applications.

1. Place Names to Geo-Coordinates using Python

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Many social science dataset contain data on events of interest that are marked as place names and students find it difficult to convert those names into geo-coordinates (longitudes and latitudes).

This tutorial uses Python's Geopy library for geocoding. It has functions that convert addresses or location names into geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude).

Full tutorial is available here.