#DemscoreConference Data Workshop 💾 How to collect, process and generate data for research projects? Join Demscore partners for a discussion on research data collection, transforming raw data into datasets, & the main challenges during data collection & dataset generation. #Polisky 🧵1(2) Link ⬇️

Reintroducing ourselves now that bsky is a thing: DSP aims to help answer questions surrounding interactions between the internet and politics by providing high-quality, publicly available, cross-national data describing the intersection between politics and social media. 1/5

In 2022 & 2023 DSP collaborated with various scholars to collect data about candidates for national legislative (and sometimes subnational) elections in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Tunisia, and the USA. #polisky 1/4

In 2022 & 2023 DSP collaborated with various scholars to collect data about candidates for national legislative (and sometimes subnational) elections in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Tunisia, and the USA. #polisky 1/4

We have a new paper out in the Journal of Information Technology and Politics. It "introduces" (we're now on v5) the DSP dataset. This is expert survey data collected as part of the annual V-Dem survey. The paper provides an overview and does some validation. doi.org/10.1080/1933...