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.

Merging Datasets: V-Dem and World Bank (R)
~20 min read
Pulling V-Dem via 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.
Open walkthrough
OLS Regression (R)
~25 min read
Simulating a working dataset, fitting lm(), reading the output, diagnostics, robust standard errors, marginal effects, and reporting in a thesis. Common pitfalls included.
Open walkthrough
Panel Data Regression (R)
~25 min read
Country-by-year simulated panel, pooled OLS versus fixed effects, two-way FE with fixest, random effects, the Hausman test, and clustered standard errors.
Open walkthrough
NLP Methods (Python)
~30 min read
A digital-governance discourse corpus (state control, digital rights, neutral framing), preprocessing, TF-IDF, classification with scikit-learn, LDA topic modeling, and sentiment scoring with VADER and transformers.
Open walkthrough
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