Computational Social Science and Quantitative Methods

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Stoltz, Dustin S. and Marshall A. Taylor. 2024. Mapping Texts: Computational Text Analysis for the Social Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.

Stoltz, Dustin S., Marissa Combs, and Marshall A. Taylor. Forthcoming. “Corpus Modeling and the Geometries of Text: Meaning Spaces as Metaphor and Method.” In the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, edited by J. P. Pardo-Guerra and C. Borch. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lee, Sangwon, Marshall A. Taylor, Saiffuden Ahmed, and Won-Ki Moon. 2024. “Going Beyond Political Ideology: A Computational Analysis of Civic Trust in Science.” Public Understanding of Science. (link)

  • Note: Code for the above paper is publicly available through GitHub.

McDonnell, Terence E., Marshall A. Taylor, and Michael Lee Wood. 2024. “Making Obama Iconic: Iconic Potential and the Affordances of Images.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. (link)

  • Note: Code for the above paper is publicly available through GitHub.

Stoltz, Dustin S., Marshall A. Taylor, and Jennifer S.K. Dudley. 2024. “A Toolkit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis.” Sociological Methods and Research. (link)

  • Note: Code for the above paper is publicly available through GitLab.

Ter-Mkrtchyan, Ani V. and Marshall A. Taylor. 2023. “An Empirical Mapping of Environmental Protection and Conservation Nonprofit Discourse on Social Media.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. (link)

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McDonnell, Terence E., Sarah Neitz, and Marshall A. Taylor. 2023. “Armchair Citizenship and Ontological Insecurity: Uncovering Styles of Media and Political Behavior.” Poetics 98. (link)

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Stoltz, Dustin S. and Marshall A. Taylor. 2022. “text2map: R Tools for Text Matrices.” Journal of Open Source Software 7(72)1-4. (link)

  • Note: Software code that goes with the above paper is publicly available through GitLab and on CRAN.

Taylor, Marshall A., Ya Su, Kevin Barry, and Sarah Mustillo. 2022. “Using Structural Topic Modeling to Estimate Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: An Illustration.” Pp. 51-67 in Analysing Student Feedback in Higher Education: Using Text-Mining to Interpret the Student Voice, edited by E. Zaitseva, B. Tucker, and E. Santhanam. New York: Routledge. (link)

Taylor, Marshall A. 2021. “The Role of Personal Availability and Gender in Negative Online Congressional Campaigning.” Political Behavior. (link)

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Stoltz, Dustin S. and Marshall A. Taylor. 2021. “Cultural Cartography with Word Embeddings.” Poetics 88. (link)

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Taylor, Marshall A. and Dustin S. Stoltz. 2020. “Concept Class Analysis: A Method for Identifying Cultural Schemas in Texts.” Sociological Science 7(23):544-69. (link)

  • Note: Code for the above paper is publicly available through GitHub.

Taylor, Marshall A. and Dustin S. Stoltz. 2020. “Integrating Semantic Directions with Concept Mover’s Distance to Measure Binary Concept Engagement.” Journal of Computational Social Science 4(1):232-242. (link)

  • Note: Code for the above paper is publicly available through GitHub.

McDonnell, Erin Metz, Dustin S. Stoltz, and Marshall A. Taylor. 2020. “Multiple Market Moralities: Identifying Distinct Patterns in How Consumers Evaluate the Fairness of Price Changes.” Socio-Economic Review. (link)

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Taylor, Marshall A. 2020. “Visualization Strategies for Regression Estimates with Randomization Inference.” Stata Journal 20(2):303-35. (link)

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Taylor, Marshall A. 2020. “Book Review: Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age.” Teaching Sociology 48(3):251-54. (link)

Lizardo, Omar and Marshall A. Taylor. 2020. “Correspondence Analysis.” In SAGE Research Methods Foundations, edited by P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J. W. Sakshaug, and R. A. Williams. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. (link)

Stoltz, Dustin S. and Marshall A. Taylor. 2019. “Concept Mover’s Distance: Measuring Concept Engagement via Word Embeddings.” Journal of Computational Social Science 2(2):293-313. (link)

  • Note: Code for the above paper is publicly available through GitHub.

Stoltz, Dustin S. and Marshall A. Taylor. 2019. “Textual Spanning: Finding Discursive Holes in Text Networks.” Socius 5:1-12. (link)

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Lizardo, Omar, Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, and Michael Lee Wood. 2018. “Visualizing Bring-Backs.” Socius 4:1-3. (link)

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Taylor, Marshall A. 2018. “Simulating the Central Limit Theorem.” Stata Journal 18(2):345-56. (link)

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Stoltz, Dustin S. and Marshall A. Taylor. 2017. “Paying with Change: The Purposeful Enunciation of Material Culture.” Poetics 64:26-39. (link)

  • Note: Data, code, and supplementary material for the above paper are publicly available through my GitHub account.