Getting to work with UK 2017 general election data

  10 June 2017 As the reality of a hung parliament starts to sink in, economists, political scientists and commentators will begin their usual routine of “post mortem” analysis of the surprise result of the UK 2017 general election. My co-authors Sascha Becker and Dennis Novy have done a similar exercise studying the EU Referendum last …

A simple pipeline to access SENNA NLP toolkit through R

For my paper Social Insurance and Conflict : Evidence from India, I was using the SENNA Natural Language processing toolkit to automatically generate a conflict dataset at the district level, based on raw newspaper clippings collected from the SATP (South Asia Terrorism Portal) daily listings.  SENNA is a standalone solution written in C, that uses a …