Text Shot: Today, our Economic Research Team is releasing GABRIEL: an open-source toolkit that uses GPT to turn unstructured text and images into quantitative measurements. It is designed for economists, social scientists, and data scientists to study qualitative data at scale.
Qualitative data tells the richest stories about the world—what people say, write, teach, argue, and experience. It spans everything from syllabi and interviews to social media and photographs. There is a tremendous amount of it. But transforming that type of data into rigorous evidence is incredibly time-consuming. Often it isn't feasible at all. In too many cases, social scientists are forced to forego important avenues of research, not because the data doesn’t exist, but because it’s impossible to analyze.
GABRIEL is built to make qualitative data much more accessible. It allows researchers to describe what they want to measure in everyday words—like “how family-friendly is this job listing?”—and then…
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