Lectures

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Introduction to Excel CSV Formatting

This video lecture for Quantitative International Relations introduces Excel CSV Parsing, cell shift separator error fixing and producing basic data visualization using World Development Indicators

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Introduction to Computational Social Science for Beginners with R

As virtual keynote to Bilkent University Computational Social Science Winter School, this lecture is intended to introduce first-timer IR students to the field of data science

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Cybersecurity in International Relations

Part of my 'Technology and World Politics' course, I'm using Harvard Cyber Index data to visualize country rankings in cybersecurity in R

OSINT Image Geolocation Tutorial

Part of my 'Digital Research Methods' course, this lecture recreates some Bellingcat-style reverse image geolocation scenarios to identify the coordinates of photos found on social media.

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Quantitative Research Methods Refresher

Part of my Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods course, this lecture is an exam prep refresher that covers types of variables and indicators and basic data cleaning operations in Excel

Web Scraping Tutorial with R

Part of my Computational Social Science course, this lecture covers the fundamentals of web scraping with R.

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Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R

Part of my Computational Social Science course, this lecture covers the basics of computational linguistics, exploring text frequencies, TF-IDF and topics models with R

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Data Cleaning Fundamentals with Excel

Part of my Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods Course, this lecture uses World Bank data to explore CSV data management, comma separator and cell shift errors, and prepare data for basic data visualization.

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Descriptive Statistics, Pivot Tables and Correlation Analysis with FAOSTAT Data

Part of Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods course, this lecture uses United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) data on global hunger and food supply to teach descriptive statistics, pivot tables and correlation analysis.

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Correlation and Descriptive Statistics with SIPRI Data

Using Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) data, this tutorial explores descriptive statistics and correlation analysis on military spending indicators and top defense contractor revenue figures in the world

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Social Media Analysis in War Zones

A guest lecture at Koc University, this video explores how social media data can be used to observe conflict events in war zones.

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Computational International Relations

Full version of my 2018 Turing Lecture (Alan Turing Institute, London), this video introduces the field of Computational International Relations and suggests multiple pathways for computer scientists to team of with IR scholars to develop a new field of science.