Dr Akitaka Matsuo
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Mondays from 1 to 3 pm. Please send me an email to get access to my calendly page
Profile
Biography
I am Postdoctoral Fellow in Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS) at University of Essex. Before joining IADS, I was a Research Fellow in Data Science in Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I earned my Ph.D in political science at Rice University in 2012. For more information, please visit my website https://amatsuo.net
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Data for Social Data Science (GV918)
Publications
Journal articles (6)
Matsuo, A., Suzuki, M. and Uji, A., Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: A comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations. Review of International Political Economy, 1-25
Matsuo, A. and Lee, S., (2018). Multi-dimensional Policy Preferences in the 2015 British General Election: A Conjoint Analysis. Electoral Studies. 55, 89-98
Lee, S. and Matsuo, A., (2018). Decomposing political knowledge: What is confidence in knowledge and why it matters. Electoral Studies. 51, 1-13
Benoit, K., Watanabe, K., Wang, H., Nulty, P., Obeng, A., Müller, S. and Matsuo, A., (2018). quanteda: An R package for the quantitative analysis of textual data. Journal of Open Source Software. 3 (30), 774-774
Amador Diaz Lopez, JC., Collignon-Delmar, S., Benoit, K. and Matsuo, A., (2017). Predicting the Brexit Vote by Tracking and Classifying Public Opinion Using Twitter Data. Statistics, Politics and Policy. 8 (1)
Fukumoto, K. and Matsuo, A., (2015). The Effects of Election Proximity on Participatory Shirking: The Staggered-Term Chamber as a Laboratory. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 40 (4), 599-625
Grants and funding
2022
AI chatbot for surgeries
InvictIQ (a venture by Sprint Consultancy Services Limited)
2019
FJG
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
Contact
Academic support hours:
Mondays from 1 to 3 pm. Please send me an email to get access to my calendly page