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Replication materials including code and data for "A Review of Best Practice Recommendations for Text Analysis in R (and a User-Friendly App)"

Replication Materials for "A Review of Best Practice Recommendations for Text Analysis in R (and a User-Friendly App)"

Materials

Part Text Analysis using Topic Modeling in R
1 Data Cleaning & Exploration / HTML
2 Topic Modeling with no covariates / HTML
3 Topic Modeling with covariates / HTML

Additionally, you can go to the GitHub for topicApp for instructions on how to use the Shiny app instead. We've also created a list of Topic Modeling references pdf, which is a short list of about 40 papers/tutorials to aid in future research. By no means is this list exhaustive -- please email me ([email protected]) if there are any suggestions to add to this list.

In addition to this archive, all of these materials have also been archived into a Dataverse repository. The materials are identical to the materials provided in this GitHub repository.

Setup and Preparation

R Knowledge

These materials assumes you have basic knowledge of how to :

Preparation

You will need R and RStudio installed on your laptop.

Also, please install these packages by running this code:

packages <- c("tidyverse","stm","quanteda","RColorBrewer","wordcloud")

install.packages(packages)

Downloading Materials

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