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Political Science and International Relations

BeautifulSoup

  • Description: A library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.

  • Use Case: Scraping political news, government websites, and international organizations' reports for analysis and research in political science and international relations.

  • GitHub Repository: Beautiful Soup GitHub

Gensim

  • Description: A robust semantic modeling library, useful for unsupervised topic modeling and natural language processing (NLP).

  • Use Case: Analyzing large volumes of textual data such as speeches, manifestos, and diplomatic communications to uncover underlying themes and discourse patterns.

  • Documentation: Gensim Documentation

  • GitHub Repository: Gensim GitHub

Matplotlib

  • Description: A plotting library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.

  • Use Case: Visualizing data related to political events, election results, public opinion polls, and international economic indicators.

  • GitHub Repository: Matplotlib GitHub

NetworkX

  • Description: A Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.

  • Use Case: Analyzing and visualizing networks of political actors, international organizations, and diplomatic relationships.

  • Documentation: NetworkX Documentation

  • GitHub Repository: NetworkX GitHub

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit)

  • Description: A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.

  • Use Case: Linguistic analysis of political texts, speeches, and documents for sentiment analysis, content categorization, and discourse analysis.

  • Documentation: NLTK Documentation

  • GitHub Repository: NLTK GitHub

NumPy

  • Description: Fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

  • Use Case: Handling numerical data for statistical analysis in political science research, including voting behavior studies and international relations metrics.

  • Documentation: NumPy Documentation

  • GitHub Repository: NumPy GitHub

Pandas

  • Description: Data analysis and manipulation library.

  • Use Case: Managing and analyzing datasets in political science and international relations, such as electoral data, economic indicators, and conflict data.

  • Documentation: Pandas Documentation

  • GitHub Repository: Pandas GitHub

Plotly

  • Description: An interactive graphing library.

  • Use Case: Creating interactive and dynamic visualizations to represent complex political and international relations data, enhancing the accessibility of research findings.

  • Documentation: Plotly Documentation

  • GitHub Repository: Plotly GitHub

scikit-learn

  • Description: Machine learning in Python.

  • Use Case: Applying machine learning algorithms to political science data for predictive modeling, classification of political texts, and clustering of international actors based on policy preferences.

  • GitHub Repository: scikit-learn GitHub

spaCy

  • Description: An open-source library for advanced natural language processing.

  • Use Case: Processing and analyzing large volumes of text for entity recognition, relationship extraction, and thematic analysis in political science and international relations documents.

  • Documentation: spaCy Documentation

  • GitHub Repository: spaCy G

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