Geoff Ford Political Science x Digital Methods

Digital Methods

Most of my research applies digital methods in some way. This includes my recent work on the Mapping LAWS project, a new project on the politics of deep sea mining in the Pacific, my PhD research, and projects through my work with the Arts Digital Lab and the Digital Humanities teaching programme. I’ve also helped and advised colleagues and students at UC on their projects applying digital methods.

This page introduces some of my digital methods research, including experiments and works in progress.

Easy-to-cite Github Pages sites for academic research

(In development) Browser-based concordancing and text analysis tool: ConText

open_in_new Publication: Jeremy Moses & Geoffrey Ford (2021) See Spot save lives: fear, humanitarianism, and war in the development of robot quadrupeds, Digital War

Web interactive: Visualising themes in debates about autonomous weapons

Robot Dreams: an interface to explore popular culture references to robots

Text analysis: Twitter sentiment about robot quadrupeds

Command line tool: sn0rt (Social News 0 Research Tool)

Jupyter Notebooks: Run topic models in your web browser

(In development) Software: WART (Wayback As Research Tool)

Legacy project: Get Papers Past

Text analysis: Research briefing on EQC in The Press

Corpus-assisted discourse analysis with audio corpora: concordancing audio

Text analysis: 'Economy'-rhetoric in New Zealand's parliament

Corpus construction: The New Zealand Parliamentary Language Corpus

Experiment: Building corpora from television captions

Web-application development for research