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The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of research processes in social science - from the ideation and design of research projects, through the construction of theoretical arguments, to conceptualization, measurement, and data collection, and quantitative and qualitative empirical analysis - exposited through 65 major new contributions from leading international methodologists. Each chapter surveys, builds upon, and extends the modern state of the art in its area. Following through its six-part organization, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practicing academics will be guided through the design, methods, and analysis of issues in Political Science and International Relations: Part One: Formulating Good Research Questions and Designing Good Research Projects; Part Two: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation; Part Three: Conceptualization and Measurement; Part Four: Large-Scale Data Collection and Representation Methods; Part Five: Quantitative-Empirical Methods; Part Six: Qualitative and Mixed Methods.
Sentiment Analysis and Social Media
Sentiment Analysis and Social Media
‘How Does It Make You Feel?’
Sentiment analysis, sometimes also called tone analysis (Grimmer and Stewart, 2013) or opinion mining (Dave et al., 2003), is a set of methods designed to answer the same deceptively simple question – how do people feel about a given subject? More precisely, given a specific topic (which might be a product in the case of a marketing analysis, or a politician, party or policy in the case of a political analysis), do the authors of a certain set of texts express positive or negative feelings with regard to that topic?
This is the kind of task which humans generally ...
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