Methods Innovation, Data Analysis Chris Burnage Methods Innovation, Data Analysis Chris Burnage

Image as data: Automated visual content analysis for social science

Images contain information absent in text, and this extra information presents opportunities and challenges. It is an opportunity because one image can document variables with which text sources (newspaper articles, speeches or legislative documents) struggle or on datasets too large to feasibly code manually. Learn how to overcome the challenges.

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Tools & Technology Chris Burnage Tools & Technology Chris Burnage

When reading a visualization is what we see really what we get?

When reading a visualization, is what we see really what we get? There are a lot of ways that visualizations can mislead us, such that they appear to show us something interesting that disappears on closer inspection. Such visualization mirages can lead us to see patterns or draw conclusions that don’t exist in our data. We analyze these quarrelsome entities and provide a testing strategy for dispelling them.

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