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Workshops
QuaSSI hosts occasional workshops in particular tools and techniques for quantitative social science. These are open to all interested Penn State faculty and students.
Upcoming QuaSSI
Workshops
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Date/Time/Location |
Title |
Nov. 17
3-5pm
Pond 124 |
Burt Monroe
QuaSSI Director, Political Science
"Extracting Data from the Web Using Perl"
Perl is a programming language that excels at processing texts. It also has facilities for grabbing documents from the web and online databases for further processing. These abilities can be leveraged to create new social science data sets from internet resources. For example, Prof. Monroe directs an NSF-funded project that is developing massive (terabyte-scale) databases from online records of parliamentary speech around the world. In other examples, he has used Perl to create datasets from roll-call voting records in the Israeli Knesset and precinct-level voting returns in Luxembourg.
In this workshop, he will discuss potential uses of Perl as a data development tool and demonstrate (very) basic programming with Perl and LWP ("Library for the Web for Perl").
PowerPoint Slides
Sample Perl scripts* used in the workshop:
howdy.pl
counter1.pl works on sample.txt
lwpsimpleget.pl
mechanizeget.pl
freshair.pl
abstracts.pl
luxembourg.pl
*The local web server disallows .pl extensions, so all are here as .txt
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TBA
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Tatiana Vashchilko
QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow, Political Science
“Scientific Presentations (Lessons from the Edward Tufte Seminar)”
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TBA
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Corey Sparks
QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow, Anthropology and Demography
“Graphics in R”
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Past QuaSSI
Workshops
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Date |
Title |
January 20, 2005
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Kyle A. Joyce
“Introduction to R”
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February 3, 2005
12-1 p.m.
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Jacob Hibel
“Introduction to Stata”
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February 17
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Kyle A. Joyce and Jacob Hibel
“Good
Computing Practices”
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April 14,
2005
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Kyle A. Joyce and
Suzanna De Boef
“Discussion of Bayesian Analysis”
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April 21,
2005
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Kyle
A. Joyce and
Suzanna De Boef
“Further Discussion of Bayesian Analysis”
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