Do the ideology estimates still work for European accounts, as mentioned in the paper?

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Estimating Ideological Positions with Twitter Data

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Do the ideology estimates still work for European accounts, as mentioned in the paper? #17

Open nikolassch opened 3 years ago

pablobarbera commented 3 years ago

Hi @nikolassch - thanks for your question! The code in the package here only works for US accounts. However, with the replication files in the original paper you might still be able to compute scores, but it would probably require some manual tweaking, and probably re-running the full model