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INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE

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Intro to Big Data for Social Science

https://jointprogram.umd.edu/content/short-course-intro-big-data-social-science November 28, 2017

Presented by Daniela Hochfellner and Clayton Hunter

Notebooks adapted from The Coleridge Initiative training program

Contents of this repository

  1. Introduction to Big Data for Social Science: slides in PDF format
  2. Jupyter notebooks used in examples:
  • Web-scraping.ipynb
  • APIs.ipynb
  • Record linkage
  • Text_Analysis.ipynb
  1. PDF versions of notebooks:
  • Web-scraping.pdf
  • APIs.pdf
  • Record Linkage
  • Text_Analysis.pdf
  1. data folder: sample input data for notebooks
  2. 03-images: accompanying images for notebook explanations

notes

  1. The API notebook also requires a local implementation of OpenTripPlanner (OTP) to run completely; the notebook has the sources used to create the OTP API.