An Unlikely Pairing Last week, Marc Cohen from Google Cloud was on campus to give a hands-on workshop on image classification using TensorFlow. Consequently, I spent most of my time thinking about how I can incorporate image classifiers in my work. As my research is primarily on forecasting armed conflict ...

Introducing adavis My second ever post on this blog was on introducing adamap, a Shiny app that maps Americans for Democratic Action voting scores (the so-called Liberal Quotient) between 1947-2015. It was built with highcharter, and hence it was nicely interactive but quite slow. I wanted to switch to another ...

Quantitative Text Analysis Part II I meant to showcase the quanteda package in my previous post on the Weinstein Effect but had to switch to tidytext at the last minute. Today I will make good on that promise. quanteda is developed by Ken Benoit and maintained by Kohei Watanabe - ...

Quantifying He-Said, She-Said: Newspaper Reporting I have been meaning to get into quantitative text analysis for a while. I initially planned this post to feature a different package (that I wanted to showcase), however I ran into some problems with their .json parsing methods and currently waiting for the issue ...