Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung / WZB Berlin Social Science Center's repositories
pdftabextract
A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
geovoronoi
a package to create and plot Voronoi regions within geographic boundaries
pdf2xml-viewer
A simple viewer and inspection tool for text boxes in PDF documents
germalemma
A lemmatizer for German language text
plz_geocoord
Dataset of all German postal codes and their geographic center as geo-coordinates.
otreeutils
Facilitate oTree experiment implementation with extensions for custom data models, surveys, understanding questions, timeout warnings and more.
pandas-excel-styler
Styling individual cells in Excel output files created with pandas.
gemeindeverzeichnis
Python-Modul zum Einlesen von Gemeindeverzeichnisdaten des Statistischen Bundesamts als pandas DataFrame
mdb-twitter-network
Twitter network of members of the 19th German Bundestag
r-geodata-workshop
Workshop held at WZB: Working with geo-spatial data in R - Obtaining, linking and plotting geographic data
patternlite
Lightweight, Python 3.6+ fork of the original Pattern package: Web mining module for Python, with tools for scraping, natural language processing, machine learning, network analysis and visualization.
r_clustered_se
Code for blog post "Clustered standard errors with R: Three ways, one result".
r_simplify_features
Code for blog post showing how to simplify spatial features with R.
spatially_weighted_avg
Code for "Spatially weighted averages in R with sf"
covid19-placesapi
Code to obtain and analyse "popular times" data from Google Places. Also contains data fetched between March 22nd and April 15th 2020 for different places world-wide.
wzb_r_tutorial
Documents for R tutorial given at WZB accompanying the lecture "Studying Social Stratification with Big Data" (Hipp, Ulbricht) in winter semester 2018
aas-chronik-scraper
Web-Scraper für Chronik von antisemitischen Vorfällen erstellt von der Amadeu Antonio Stiftung und publiziert unter https://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/chronik/
apis_for_social_scientists_a_review
A review of APIs.
fetch_google_places_api_data
Script to fetch data of Google Places in Berlin using the Google Places API and popularity data. Used at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to measure change of popularity of different places.
github_covid_gender_jfr
Replication code for article "Has Covid-19 increased gender inequalities in professional advancement? Cross-country evidence on productivity differences between male and female software developers" published in the Journal of Family Research.
gmapswrapper
Google Maps API wrapper for Python enables convenient caching of Maps API results.
hipp_konrad_2021
Replication code for Men’s and women’s productivity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a cross-country comparison of software developers
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