Manda Yao

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Frontiers | A Topic Modeling Comparison Between LDA, NMF, Top2Vec, and BERTopic to Demystify Twitter Posts Seeing that travel restrictions have begun to ease up, thanks to increasing vaccination rates across the globe, understanding the public’s concerns and opini...

Will do! This paper introduced me to BERTopic, which you might already hear of. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

We are using BERTopic to analyze a corpus of twitters posts about ChatGPT, and I found it to produce “better” results than LDA! Preprint will be out soon, but we will have a presentation 12pm this Sunday in ASA. Feel free to drop by if you have time!

Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation - Thomas Davidson, Daniel Karell, 2025 Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new capabilities for analyzing data, creating synthetic media, and simulating realistic social interactions. This...

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,321,244!