Lucas is a student researcher and professional analyst who is interested in the organizational culture of modern and historical bureaucracies.
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I just ran across this very helpful index of text analysis and processing tools from the UT Scarborough library. Many of the tools mentioned have a web interface. Some have been deprecated, but I think it is still worth a look! https://find.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/text_analysis. Please reach out if you know of a more current or comprehensive index.
If you are interested in analysis of the latest trends and projections for European national and parliamentary elections, check out Europe Elects!
Constellate has now added 44 of their most-demanded instructional sessions to their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Constellate_org. Check them out if you are looking for a way to start applying text analysis techniques to your research problem!
Worth a look if you are on the market for free access to training resources : https://education.github.com/pack?sort=popularity&tag=Learn. You can find the filtered list of educational offers halfway down the page.
Marcus Charlesworth et moi sommes ravis d’animer la Table ronde 3 au Congrès annuel de la Société québécoise de science politique: https://sqsp.uqam.ca/congres/programme-preliminaire-congres-2025-uqam/
I will be presenting and chairing a panel at CPSA this coming June: Classical Political Thought, Democratic Theory and Practice. Look me up if you are planning to attend!
This inventory of digital humanities workshops prepared by H-France may be of interest to those looking for learning content to replace the soon-to-be discontinued series at Constellate: https://h-france.net/h-france-dh-workshops/
We just finished performing optical character recognition on the recoverable sources from the Parisian Parliamentarians Project. Check out this nice interactive visualization of the source text. We will continue to organize the original scans and upload their .txt equivalents in the project repository.
For those interested in thoughtful commentary on current issues in Canadian political economy and international affairs, I recommend having a look at my friend Andrew Strebkov’s blog: Opinions International.
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