Biography
Johannes B. Gruber is a Senior Researcher and Team Lead of the team Metadata Standards and Interoperability at the Data Services for the Social Sciences department at GESIS. Before joining GESIS, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the VU Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and the European New School of Digital Studies, researching topics of digital political communication using methods of computational text and image analysis. In his doctoral thesis, which he completed at the University of Glasgow in 2021, he examined the portrayal of protests in UK mainstream media since the early 1990s. He has developed or worked on software packages for web-scraping (traktok, paperboy, cookiemonster) text analysis (spacyr, quanteda.textmodels, stringdist, rwhatsapp, LexisNexisTools), and data storage (amcat4r).
2H Introduction to Web Scraping and Data Management for Social Scientists
