New Instats livestreaming seminar: Text-as-Data with Python
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Text-as-data methods are reshaping social science research, but getting started with programming can be a major barrier. This hands-on online seminar is designed to help PhD students and professional researchers with no coding background move from their first lines of Python to fine-tuning their own language model. Across three live 2.5-hour sessions, you’ll learn the Python needed for applied text-as-data work, understand how BERT-based encoder models classify text at scale, and fine-tune a model to place political text on a left-right scale. Everything runs in free browser-based notebooks, with step-by-step guidance and connections to the R and Stata intuitions many social scientists already have. By the end, you’ll be able to read, adapt, and run a complete fine-tuning pipeline on your own labeled text, validate your model against a baseline, and save it for reproducible use. The seminar is available live via Zoom, with recordings, materials, and a monitored Q&A forum available for 30 days afterward, plus an official Instats certificate of completion.
#ComputationalSocialScience #PoliticalScience #ComputerScience #DataScience #Statistics #GoogleColab #Jupyter #Python #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats
