Teaching

Text as Data

SOC 592 · Spring 2016, Spring 2019, Fall 2021

Text as Data covers statistical approaches to analyzing documents and other language data in social science research. The course emphasizes how text can enter the research process through discovery, measurement, prediction, and causal inference, with attention to validation and substantive interpretation.

Latest Offering

The latest Princeton offering is the Fall 2021 CAP version. It covers the Text as Data framework as a half-semester graduate course, with weekly readings, proposal work, peer reviews, and attention to discovery, measurement, prediction, and causal inference with text.

2021 CAP Syllabus

Earlier Syllabi

2019 Syllabus 2016 Syllabus