THIS COURSE IS OUTDATED: Please see the updated course KED2022.

KED2020

This repository contains all the material for the following course that I teach at the University of Lucerne:

Seminar Kleines Einmaleins des Digitalen: Universität Luzern, 2020

The course is a gentle introduction to computational methods with a focus on text analysis. The audience are BA students of social sciences with backgrounds in various disciplines (sociology, political science, cultural studies, etc.)

Check out the official course website here.

If you're in the class

To get a local copy of the slides and material used in this course, you can simply clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/aflueckiger/KED2020.git

If you're not

I'm open-sourcing the course material as an inspiration to other people, but this isn't under a CC license or anything. If you would like to use any of the content, please ask for permission.

Acknowledgements

As always, people stand on the shoulders of others. So do I. I am especially grateful for:

the plentiful resources by Kieran Healy that draw me into the world of Markdown.
a dataset of speeches given by Swiss Federal Councilors on the Swiss National Day. Simon Schmid (journalist Republik), with the collaboration of Prof. Andreas Kley (Faculty of Law, UZH), collected many of these speeches and kindly shared the resulting dataset with me. The collection comprises 166 speeches, which is a multiple of the publicly available here.