Medical Sociology on Wheels

Comments on Health Beliefs, Risk, Mitigation, and Sociological Research Methods, a Disabled Perspective

Category: Tutorials

Build and Interpret a Basic Structural Topic Model in R

Now I am ready to build my structural topic model using my new corpus object containing the prepped documents, vocabulary, and metadata. There are some important considerations for the structural topic model.

April 29, 2023
Combining Dataframes and Manipulating Variables with dplyr in R

You can add columns to dataframes with the dplyr “mutate” function. I have five dataframes, and I want to combine them, but I also want to be able to identify the cases (rows) by query in my new dataframe. Before I combine the five dataframes, I will add a new variable

April 10, 2023
Analyzing Tweets: A Tidy Approach to Basic Analyses in R with Quanteda and ggplot2

This tutorial walks through the steps of executing basic word frequency analyses on text data that have already been prepared for analysis. The tutorial demonstrates a tidy approach using Quanteda and ggplot2 to analyze tweets collected with the twitteR package in R.

March 16, 2023
Downloading and Preparing Tweets for Analysis with the twitteR package in R

twitteR query example 03/13/2023 In This Tutorial: 1 These packages are useful for collecting Twitter data. The following example will only use tidyverse and twitteR. 2 To follow along starting with Twitter data collection, you will need the following: 3 Step 1: Setup the connection to Twitter through your app using the “twitteR” package 4…

March 14, 2023
COVID-19 Google Topic Trends, with Widgets

I began with a simple exploration of the trends for the query (keyword) “covid” between January 1, 2020, and March 9, 2023, capturing a majority of the pandemic leading up to mid-March 2023.

March 9, 2023
Exploring Google Search Trends Over Time and by Country Using the GtrendsR Package [R, via RStudio]

The “gtrends” package allows you to query search hits for up to 5 keywords. Let’s look at search hits for terms related to disability and chronic illness.

February 24, 2023