Computational Social Science Python Packages

topica

Fast, all-purpose topic modeling for Python: 20+ models (LDA, STM, CTM, DMR, keyATM, BERTopic, ETM, ...) behind one NumPy-native interface on a parallel Rust core, with shared diagnostics and reproducible fits.

scattertext

Beautiful visualizations of how language differs among document types.

textnets

Text analysis with networks.

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.

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.

hypothesaes

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

pycorpdiff

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

augmentedsocialscientist

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

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.

arcshiftwrap

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

shifterator

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

dlvt

Dynamic Leadership Vitality Theory: A dynamical systems model of executive sustainability

dcss

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

propaganda-pipeline

Propaganda technique detection pipeline using DSPy + OpenAI (23 techniques)

multiway-alignment

A python library providing measures of multiway issue alignment.

twarc2sql

This package converts jsonl file generated by twarc2 to sql database in an opnionated way.

socialscikit

Zero-code toolkit for social science text analysis — classification (QuantiKit), qualitative coding (QualiKit), and research methods tools (Toolbox)

tracking-policy-agendas

A Persian Twitter policy agenda tracking framework

framescope

Python client for the Arctic Shift API.