Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and innovative data sources

I am interested in how social research is evolving in the digital age. I like exploring new tools in my work.  Below is a small portfolio of (old) curated projects.  More to come.. 

Text analysis

Using large sources of text data to conduct automated analysis: 

Web and Social Media Data

Using data from social media and digital spaces:

Machine Learning

In 2019 and 2020 I enrolled in courses on Machine Learning, and Programming for Data Science at the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. This is the assignment for the course:  

Listen to this podcast I recorded with Nicole Schwitter, author of "Going digital: web data collection using twitter as an example", and Alexia Pretari where we discuss how web and social media data can be used to understand our reality, as well as its limitations and ethical considerations. And this podcast with Jaynie Vonk, where we discuss GDPR, data security and data privacy for impact evaluations.  Finally, read this paper published in Frontiers in Sociology on Big data and development research.