Plots on Politics

Author

library(here)

here() starts at /Users/kevinreuning/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/personal_website

source(here("blog/data/trust/GSS.r"))
GSS_metadata <- read.dct(here("blog…

An LLM/AI Research Assignment

ChatGPT

Pedagogy

Assignments

As everyone is aware, Large Language Models (LLMs) are disrupting higher education. There are a lot of proposed solutions, almost all of them that require radically…

Scaling Movie Summaries

Python

ML

Text-as-data

My students are learning about MDS scaling this week. For previous semesters I’ve had them look at campaign donations, but I’ve learned that the data analytics students…

American Elections are Close

Elections

President

Congress

The 2024 election was not a landslide, but how close was it? Close. Trump’s victory depends on a margin of 229,000 votes or 0.16% of all votes cast. At the same time…

BERTopics Example

Python

ML

Text-as-data

This uses BERTopic to analyze open ended responses from the 2020 ANES. I am starting with V201109 which asks individuals “What is it that [respondent] dislikes about…