I am not a data scientist. But I have always wondered what the term data science meant when I began learning statistics with R. According to a youtube video by Professor Dr. Robert Curtis: Data science = Programming + Statistics + Mathematics However, I will add Communication. I also thought about which resources you canContinue reading “Data Science with R”
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President Al Gore and the 2003 Iraq War
Review of Article One of my favorite articles in international relations is the text President Al Gore and the 2003 Iraq War: A Counterfactual Test of Conventional “W”isdom by Frank Harvey (CJPS, 2012). Harvey answers the question of whether the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 would still have occurred if someone other than GeorgeContinue reading “President Al Gore and the 2003 Iraq War”
Text Mining: Using Text as Data
What is text mining, and where does it fit? Text mining, also referred to as text analytics, involves the extraction of insightful information from text, which can help in making well-informed decisions. The method is used in academia (e.g. to analytically understand transcripts that are qualitatively collected), data science (e.g. to produce relevant inputs forContinue reading “Text Mining: Using Text as Data”
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