Data Science Projects
On this page, you will find a selection of ongoing research projects led by members of the SoBe DSC community at FMG. These projects serve as examples of the diverse data science initiatives within our faculty.
Communication Science
metatargetr
The goal of metatargetr is to enhance transparency by making political ad targeting and spending data more accessible and structured for research. It is an R package designed to retrieve and parse information from the Meta and Google Ad Libraries that is not covered in their official APIs. It enables researchers to analyze political ad targeting strategies and access (historical) targeting and spending data.
Social Sciences
Mexca
Mexca is an open-source Python package which aims to capture human emotion expression features from videos. Next to extracting emotional features, mexca can also identify the speakers shown in the video by clustering speaker and face representations. This allows users to compare emotion expressions across speakers, time, and contexts.