Publications by Jason Timm
Political Ideology & Front-line House Democrats
Briefly Front-line House Democrats Ideologies in the 116th Focusing on Democrats Summary Briefly A quick look at the voting behavior of the 30 House Democrats that represent congressional districts carried by Trump in 2016 – relative to other House members. Using Rvoteview. For a more in-depth account of the characteristics of front-line House...
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a global pandemic on Twitter
Brief introduction Twitter details 2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS & lexical variation Patterns of variation over time Summary Brief introduction So, lots of linguistic variation happening in real time. coronavirus, covid19, pandemic, and more recently (the?) coronavirus pandemic. For sure, these expressions are not proper synonyms – each refer to diff...
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covid19 & some computational-corpus linguistics
A COVID19 lexicon Congressional Twitter Corpus (2020) text2vec framework for NLP :: Tokens & tokenizers Multi-word expressions & controlled vocabularies DTMs & prevalence of COVID19-related concepts GloVe model & COVID19 semantic space Networks & lexical co-occurrence Summary A SHORT COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL-CORPUS LINGUISTICS – using the R lib...
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the seven living generations in america
American generations Monthly US population estimates American population by generation American generations by age & race White America on the wane American generations in (apparent) time & space Summary American generations A quick look at the composition of American generations. Per Pew Research definitions & US Census data. In the process, a ...
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evaluating vector space models with word analogies
Introduction Corpus & model Evaluation & analogy Experimental set-up Results: model parameters Results: analogy categories Visualizing vector offsets Summary & caveats References Introduction This post walks through corpus-based methods for evaluating the efficacy of vector space models in capturing semantic relations. Here we consider the stand...
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margins-of-victory, voting behavior & re-election
Breifly VoteView & DW-NOMINATE Longest-serving members of the US House Longest-serving members & political ideology Longest-serving members & election margins Margins & ideology: the example of Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) A re-election model – logistic regression Thoughts Breifly In this post, we take a couple of different historical perspecti...
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margins-of-victory, voting behavior & re-election
Breifly VoteView & DW-NOMINATE Longest-serving members of the US House Longest-serving members & political ideology Longest-serving members & election margins Margins & ideology: the example of Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) A re-election model – logistic regression Thoughts Breifly In this post, we take a couple of different historical perspecti...
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mapping congressional roll calls
Introduction A bit of a depot for things-/methods- mapping with R & ggplot, in the context of visualizing historical roll calls from the US House of Representatives. Roll call data accessed via VoteView and the RVoteview package; shapefiles for historical US Congressional Districts downloaded from the Political Science Dept @ UCLA. Visual summary...
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Open States data & the New Mexico State Senate
Intro NM State Senate Democrats Open-States Data DW-NOMINATE procedure Loss of the center Summary Intro So, a bit of a dust-up in the State Senate primaries in New Mexico over the summer. Progressives took aim at five Democratic members of a conservative coalition that has controlled the chamber since 2009. This group of moderate Dems lost four ...
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time-lining the Trump presidency
Introduction A simple function from the uspols package – dubbed uspols_wiki_timeline() – that scrapes Wikipedia’s Timeline of the Donald Trump presidency. Facilitating, among other things, the ability to hover over data points in a time series to see what the President was up to on any given day over the course of the last four years. libra...
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