Learn how to use novel datasets such as Google Trends and GDELT, while contributing to charity! Join our workshop on Using Google Trends and GDELT datasets to explore societal trends which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series.
Here’s some more info:
Title: Using Google Trends and GDELT datasets to explore societal trends
Date: Thursday, January 12th 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris time zone)
Speaker: Harald Puhr, PhD in international business and assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck. His research and teaching focuses on global strategy, international finance, and data science/methods—primarily with R. As part of his research, Harald developed the globaltrends package (available on CRAN) to handle large-scale downloads from Google Trends.
Description: Researchers and analysts are frequently interested in what topics matter for societies. These insights are applied to research fields ranging from Economics to Epidemiology to better understand market demand, political change, or the spread of infectious diseases. In this workshop, we consider Google Trends and GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone) as two datasets that help us to explore what matters for societies and whether these issues matter everywhere. We will use these datasets in R and Google Big Query for analysis of online search volume and media reports, and we will discuss what they can tell us about topics that move societies.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)
How can I register?
- Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro. Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go directly to support Ukraine.
- Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)
- Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).
If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.
How can I sponsor a student?
- Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro (or 17 GBP or 20 USD or 750 UAH). Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go to support Ukraine!
- Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)
- Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.
If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).
You can also find more information about this workshop series, a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.
Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!