Computational Social Science Python Packages

topica

40+ validated topic models for computational social science, behind one NumPy-native interface: covariate effects on topic prevalence and content, shared diagnostics, reproducible fits. LDA, STM, CTM, keyATM, BERTopic, ETM, and more on a parallel Rust core. One wheel, no JVM, no PyTorch.

scattertext

Beautiful visualizations of how language differs among document types.

convokit

ConvoKit is a toolkit for extracting conversational features and analyzing social phenomena in conversations. It includes several large conversational datasets along with scripts exemplifying the use of the toolkit on these datasets.

textnets

Text analysis with networks.

tweetnlp

TweetNLP for all the NLP enthusiasts working on Twitter! The Python library tweetnlp provides a collection of useful tools to analyze/understand tweets such as sentiment analysis, emoji prediction, and named entity recognition, powered by state-of-the-art language models specialised on Twitter.

socioverse2

SocioVerse2: A Longitudinal Dynamic Social Simulation Framework under a Human-AI Co-evolutionary Paradigm

langaccess

Classifies the language access a website provides, separating the site's own writing from a translation widget's output, and returns the evidence behind each verdict.

hypothesaes

HypotheSAEs: hypothesizing interpretable relationships in text datasets using sparse autoencoders. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04382

augmentedsocialscientist

A package to easily train Bert-like models for text classification

pycorpdiff

Comparative corpus analysis for Python: keyness, collocations, semantic shift, temporal trajectories with changepoints + causal inference.

shifterator

Interpretable data visualizations for understanding how texts differ at the word level

arcshiftwrap

End-to-end pipeline for collecting, labeling, and analyzing metaphor framing and stance in Reddit and news discourse using LLMs.

dlvt

Python package implementing Dynamic Leadership Vitality Theory — a dynamical systems model of executive sustainability. Simulates vitality–capital dynamics, finds equilibria, classifies leadership regimes.

blamegame

A Python package for detecting internal/external (dispositional/situational) attributions in text, driven by a fine-tuned RoBERTa model.

mlm-bias

Measuring Biases in Masked Language Models for PyTorch Transformers. Support for multiple social biases and evaluation measures.

dcss

Supplementary materials for McLevey 2021 Doing Computational Social Science (Sage, UK).

multiway-alignment

A python library providing measures of multiway issue alignment.

twarc2sql

This converts the output jsonl file twarc2 api to sql.

wordlevel

Word-level natural language processing and text analysis

socialscikit

Zero-code text analysis toolkit for social science researchers | 面向社会科学研究者的零代码文本分析工具包

framescope

End-to-end pipeline for collecting, labeling, and analyzing metaphor framing and stance in Reddit and news discourse using LLMs.