My PhD project is about understanding how ideas about the world shape the actions of people and to develop measurements to find cues of this in textual data. To this end I currently employ the U.S. Congressional Records, a vast resource of text spanning from 1873 to the present, and use deep learning models ("neural networks") to find patterns in the data.
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Hendrik Erz
PhD student
My research revolves around the measurement of culture. I employ deep learning models to extract patterns from textual data. Currently, I work with the U.S. Congressional Records.
Presentation
I am a PhD Student at the Institute for Analytical Sociology. I use computational tools to make sense of large amounts of textual data and extract signals that help understand culture.