Publications

. Anonymous Cross-Party Conversations Can Decrease Political Polarization: A Field Experiment on a Mobile Chat Platform. Submitted, 2021.

. Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation through Text: an Application to Political Polarization. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Causal Inference & Natural Language Processing., 2021.

. Author Clustering and Topic Estimation for Short Texts. arXiv, 2021.

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Teaching

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Political Text Analysis

Myself and another Ph.D. student created a module to teach undergraduates statistical methods for text analysis focused on political applications. We created and taught variants for implementation in introductory and advanced classes. This work was funded by the Duke Rhodes Information Initiative and is documented here: https://bigdata.duke.edu/projects/text-analysis-political-speech.

Blog Posts

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I will eventually move my old Wordpress site to this one, but for now you can find all of my old posts here.

Analysis of home-field advantage in the NFL across time and space.

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When predicting event times in the future, you should include that information in the training data.

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Text analysis of 2018 campaign emails.

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Some thoughts on how to build causal graphs and the role of privilege in taking down Theranos.

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I review two applications of predictive modeling in mental health, one successful and the other not: identifying school shootings before they happen and prioritizing callers to a crisis hotline.

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