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Text as Data
NBER Working Paper No. w23276
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Date Written: February 15, 2017
Abstract
An ever increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an input to economic research. We discuss the features that make text different from other forms of data, offer a practical overview of relevant statistical methods, and survey a variety of applications.
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Gentzkow, Matthew and Kelly, Bryan T. and Taddy, Matt, Text As Data (February 15, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2934001 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2934001
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