A brief political history of New Mexico using a host of data sources, including Wikipedia, the US Census, the New Mexico State Legislature (NMSL), VoteView, and the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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How House Reps refer to POTUS on Twitter: a stance-based perspective
An investigation into how (& how often) members of the 116th House of Representatives refer to the 45th president of the United States on Twitter.
historical word embeddings & lexical semantic change
Some methods for detecting & visualizing semantic change.
Some perspectives on Xochitl Torres Small's win in CD NM-02
A congressional election success story, and an introduction to <nmelectiondatr>, an R data package that makes available New Mexico general election returns from 2014 to 2018.
Twitter, political ideology & the 115th US Senate
Estimating political ideologies of US Senators via the news media they share on Twitter.
Political ideology & New Mexico's 53rd State Legislature
A demonstration of the NOMINATE/VoteView procedure using roll call data from NMSL53.
New Mexico's 53rd State Legislature
A demo of the data package <nmlegisdatr>, which makes available data about New Mexico state legislative activities, including bill summaries, roll calls, & legislator details.
psychological and geographical distance in text
An investigation into the relationship between psychological distance and geographical distance in text.
building historical socio-demographic profiles
A simple workflow for building census-based, historical socio-demographic profiles
place from text: geography & distributional semantics
Some different methodologies for exploring the geographical information found in text.
topic models for synchronic & diachronic corpus exploration
A simple workflow from annotated corpus to topic model, with a focus on the exploratory utility of topic models.
a simple framework for corpus-based keyphrase extraction
A simple framework for identifying and extracting keyphrases from component texts of a corpus.
corpus query and grammatical constructions
A demonstration of the use of a simple collection of functions from my R-package `corpuslingr`.
a census-based approach to spanish language maintenance
An investigation into Spanish language maintenance within Hispanic communities in the US utilizing data from the US Census.