Chapter 7 Curate data

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In this chapter you will learn:

… introduction, and outline of the chapter…

First steps in formating data that is conducive for quantitative research. It is important to make a distinction between two types of data that we are typically working with in text analysis: linguistic and non-linguistic data.

Linguistic data is the text that we are aiming to analyze.

Non-linguistic data, or metadata, is the data that we aim to associate with the linguistic data. Non-linguistic variables are tightly related to the type of text. For example, in text acquired from one-on-one interviews, non-linguistic variables may include information about the speakers’ gender, age, language background, etc.

Before continuing complete the following learnr/ interactive code exercises:

Custom functions: creation, documentation, and organization for subsequent use
Iterative function application via purrr
Understanding Markup languages; XML, HTML
Parsing and extracting information from markup with rvest

7.1 Metadata

7.2 Language data

Activities

Concept questions

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Code exercises