katehret / mda_workshop

Materials for factor analysis and visualisation

How to do Multi-dimensional Analysis: Theoretical background and practical analyses in R

Workshop held May 22 and 23, 2024, at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby

About

This repository contains slides, scripts, data and additional material for conducting a multi-dimensional analysis, including various visualisations. The data and scripts have been adapted from the multi-dimensional analysis presented in

• Ehret, Katharina, and Maite Taboada. (2021). “Characterising online news comments: a multi-dimensional cruise through online registers”. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 4(79): 10.3389/frai.2021.643770.

File and folder structure

• 📁 data -- the normalised frequency counts and additional material needed for the FA

• 📁 interpretation -- spreadsheets with salient loadings and comments, distributional graphs, some example corpus files

• 📁 scripts -- .r scripts and .Rmd scripts

• 💻 mda_slides.pdf: slides presented during the workshop

Tip

For running the .Rmd scripts in R studio the scripts need to be moved up one directory level. Else the folder structure should be left intact. Make sure to unzip the normalized_postag_counts.zip folder (preserving the directory structure).

Copyright and citation

All material with the exception of corpus files is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

For copyright and citation of the corpus files please refer to the original sources:

SFU Opinion and Comments Corpus and Corpus of Online Registers of English

Cite as

Ehret, Katharina. 2024. Materials for "How to do Multi-dimensional Analysis: Theoretical background and practical analyses in R". Workshop, May 22 and 23, 2024, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.