Extracting and Analyzing User Comments to Expose How Americans Respond to Gun Violence

A Computational Social Science Study

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Research Fellowship project at Colgate University
Served as my introduction to Data Science
Wrote Python code to automatically extract the comments of the sampled articles using a New York Times API
Developed a Latent-Dirichlet Allocation Topic model to summarize data and compare article and comment section topics

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