Resource Nest

Updated: May 1

Statistics and Econometrics

Professor Leonard's Statistics Course
- Recommended for anyone who is fresh new to stats in general. Trust me, it is so far the best basic course one could ever find. I survived my Ph.D. Quantitative Research course hugely thanks to many of Leonard's videos.
Econometric Models Course
- Ever wondering what a "model" is; or what "model" to use for which situation? Then, you cannot miss this course from Dr. Katchova at the Ohio State University.
Introduction to Causal Inference from Brady Neal

Below are resources I find particularly useful for social scientists who seek to use quantitative methods to explore text data.

My favorite textbook - Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences from Grimmer, Roberts and Steward (2022).
- There is this online course on analyzing political texts using R programming language from Joe Ornstein that perfectly complements the book.
  - Joe Ornstein has this great package in R called promptr that allows us to work with LLMs for text analysis right in R. Check this page.
The next favorite textbook - Speech and Language Processing by Jurafsky and Martin.
- The book can be accessed freely on the website.
- This is one of the books that Prof. Margaret E Roberts used for her graduate level course which I took at UC San Diego.
This is another free and very good book - Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R by Hvitfeldt and Silge (2022).
- The book focuses on supervised machine learning techniques, but it does go over basic text processing techniques at the beginning, and deep learning towards the end.
There is also this basic level Text as Data course from Professor Chris Bail (Duke University)
- If you have worked with R before, this course is a good exposure to the some basic quantitative text analysis techniques.

Southeast Asian Newspapers Archive
- Most of them are historical newspapers, offering a rich coverage of the region's history during the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The National Library of Vietnam Digital Archive
- Among this, I particularly like the archive on newspapers and magazines of Vietnam during the colonial period.