Ken Benoit

Ken Benoit

Professor of Computational Social Science

London School of Economics

Kenneth Benoit is Director of the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology. He is also Professor (Part-time) in the School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University. He has previously held positions in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin and at the Central European University (Budapest).

He received his Ph.D. (1998) from Harvard University, Department of Government with a specialization in applied statistical methods.

His current research focuses on computational, quantitative methods for processing large amounts of textual data, mainly political texts and social media. Current interest span from the analysis of big data, including social media, and methods of text mining. His substantive research in political science focuses on comparative party competition, the European Parliament, electoral systems, and the effects of campaign spending. His other methodological interests include general statistical methods for the social sciences, especially those relating to measurement. Recent data large-scale measurement projects in which he has been involved include estimating policy positions of political parties through crowd-sourced data, expert surveys, manifesto coding, and text analysis.

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Contact details:
Data Science Institute
London School of Economics
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
K.R.Benoit@lse.ac.uk

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