This respository includes brief tutorials, tid-bits, tips and tricks for various Computational Social Science applications.
1. Place Names to Geo-Coordinates using Python
Many social science dataset contain data on events of interest that are marked as place names and students find it difficult to convert those names into geo-coordinates (longitudes and latitudes).
This tutorial uses Python's Geopy library for geocoding. It has functions that convert addresses or location names into geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude).