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reviewed Text As Data by Justin Grimmer

Justin Grimmer, Brandon M. Stewart, Margaret E. Roberts: Text As Data (2022, Princeton University Press) 5 stars

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world

Useful - quite technical in places

5 stars

Found this to be a useful overview of current text analytic approaches and applications. There is a strong emphasis on reliability and validity while understanding that theory does not always precede experiment. I liked the way the phases of analysis are broken down and the use of example studies to illustrate different methods. There were some quite technical sections but again the examples helped in understanding these.