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Academic argumentation and critique

When you apply for a PhD program and are called to an interview you will inevitably be asked a few standard questions. One of these is how you deal with critique and the…

How I use ChatGPT

Since ChatGPT’s release in December 2022, the way I think about, and solve problems has radically changed. During the last nine months, there has been a…

Share your Twitter datasets!

Twitter research as we knew it is dead. The academic API has been dismantled and researchers are left with a cost prohibitive API option aimed at for-profit companies.…

How many times do they say ‘cats’ in Cats (2019)?

During the fear-filled weeks of March 2020, one of the brief reprieves of dread was when my friends and I watched Cats (2019) on Zoom. The film is a mess, a $95 million flop…

Working with country codes in R

Merging data from different sources into a single dataset is a common task during the data processing phase of data analysis. Many political scientists work with comparative…

Cleaning your Twitter account with R

In March 2020, I decided to take a break from Twitter. I started my account in 2014 and for six years I used it in fits and bursts in somewhat inconsistent fashion – I…

Automate PowerPoint Production Using R

One of the constants in my professional career is making graphs to put into PowerPoint presentations so that findings can be presented to other teams, partners, or clients.…

Who is in the UN’s Twitter network

For a while now I have been interested in analyzing behavior on Twitter. As a platform Twitter provides unparalleled insight to elite discourse between politicians, experts…