Data Science Seminar Series
Date: 24 November 2016
Time: 16:15 - 17:45
Title: Measuring and explaining political sophistication through textual complexity
Speaker: Professor Ken Benoit (pictured), Head of Department, Department of Methodology at LSE
The sophistication of political communication has been measured using ``readability'' scores developed from other contexts, but their application to political text suffers from a number of theoretical and practical issues. Read more...