Bachelor Project 2025–2026
Group 16: Digital Governance, Platform Labour, and Power in the Digital Economy
Bachelor Project Materials
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Supervisor: Dr. Shreyas Meher · meher@essb.eur.nl
Meetings: Thursdays, Mandeville T5-114
Final submission: June 25, 2026 via Canvas
Groups and time slots (from Meeting 2 onwards)
Group A · 12:00–13:20 · text-as-data / cross-national
Kate Domnikoff, Lea Géciová, Kseniya Sidorenko, Daniel Ugarte
Cross-feedback pairs: Kate ↔ Lea · Kseniya ↔ Daniel
Group B · 13:25–14:45 · case / applied / mixed
Anand Dev Esponda, Vince Kromberg, Francis van Luyn, Louiza Reysen
Cross-feedback pairs: Anand ↔ Vince · Francis ↔ Louiza
Session slides are released each Thursday afternoon, after the meeting has finished. Check back weekly for new materials.
Methods walkthroughs
Self-contained, runnable guides for the methods you are most likely to use in your thesis. Each one walks from raw data through estimation to reporting, with code you can copy into your own analysis.
vdemdata and World Bank indicators via WDI, joining on ISO3 codes, diagnosing merges, and producing both a country-year panel and a cross-sectional snapshot ready for the OLS and panel walkthroughs.lm(), reading the output, diagnostics, robust standard errors, marginal effects, and reporting in a thesis. Common pitfalls included.fixest, random effects, the Hausman test, and clustered standard errors.scikit-learn, LDA topic modeling, and sentiment scoring with VADER and transformers.