Crowd-sourced text analysis: Reproducible and agile production of political data

• Main Authors: BENOIT, Kenneth, CONWAY, Drew, LAUDERDALE, Benjamin E., LAVER, Michael, MIKHAYLOV, Slava
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Models and Methods; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3970; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5228/viewcontent/Crowd_sourcedTA_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Empirical social science often relies on data that are not observed in the field, but are transformed into quantitative variables by expert researchers who analyze and interpret qualitative raw sources. While generally considered the most valid way to produce data, this expert-driven process is inhe...