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MetAt- November 12, 2024 logbook

Share our methodological expertise and skills.

Event, Workshop

Campus Sciences Po, 1 Place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin

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What is METAT?

METAT is a research methods support workshop: every month, a three-hour slot to help you resolve the methodological difficulties you encounter in the course of a scientific project. 

Who is METAT for?

METAT is aimed at anyone needing occasional support in using a research tool or method. All profiles are welcome: students, doctoral students, researchers, research engineering professionals and others, inside and outside Sciences Po, with no restrictions on status or affiliation.

How to register?

Registration is compulsory via the form available on the METAT page.

 

Session of 12/11/2024

Location: Sciences Po, 1 place Saint Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris.

Supervisors: Diégo Antolinos-Basso, Cosma Cazé, Julien Pontoire, Guillaume Plique, Marie Boishus, Béatrice Mazoyer, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, Maxime Crépel, Guillaume Levrier, Sandra Hamiche.

Lexicometric analysis of parliamentary debate archives

Accompaniment of two PhD students in political theory searching for quantitative data on the use of the key concepts of their research topics (“common good” and “IIIe république”) in political speeches, including those in parliamentary archives. The supervisors first presented the API developed in order to provide a simplified access to the data of the website NosDéputés in XML, JSON and CSV formats via PANDORÆ. The tool Archelec, which provides information on how a concept is mobilized in political speeches, was also suggested. Finally, an attempt was made to aggregate CSV files (using pdfotext), and PhD students were introduced to the lexicometric features of xan (a command-line tool for processing large quantities of CSV files).

Hyphe installation on personal computer

Support for a PhD student who had already used Hyphe demo during the research and wanted to use it more intensively and permanently to discover new websites on the history of feminism on the web in Spain. A Windows Docker was first installed. Hyphe was then launched via docker compose from a terminal. Finally, a first corpus of archives between 1996 and 2000 was used to test the installation.

The Citizens' Climate Convention in the media

Support for a student questioning the relevance of LDA (linear discriminant analysis) as part of a quali-quantitative analysis of a corpus of 4,000 press articles. The supervisors helped the student clarify the hypotheses, and a methodological discussion took place. Sentiment analysis was devalued as a valid scientific method. The supervisors then provided a short bibliography of references for quali-quantitative analysis on media data, as well as propositions of specific variables for a qualitative classification of a sub-corpus of articles. Finally, they invited the student to reduce the corpus to a more manageable number of articles.

Using CorText to analyze a press corpus on metal music

Accompaniment of a student wishing to analyze ecological discourse in metal music through a press corpus. The student had already started collecting data on Factiva and wanted to deepen its knowledge of the CorText analysis tool.The supervisors suggested using the Europresse database to find more articles in French, and tested the Simplescrapper tool to facilitate data collection. The student's data corpus was reorganized in CSV format to make CorText easier to handle.