Publications by Megan Georges
Blog Post #2
Blog Post 2 Progress report for DACSS697 research project Megan Georges 2/20/2022 Potential Research Question Is there a relationship between the restrictiveness of state gun laws and the rate of intimate partner homicide by a firearm in each state? Each state varies in the number and restrictiveness of gun laws. In particular, states diff...
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OSF Web Scraping Practice
Sources of Lessons/Script: https://practicewebscrapingsite.wordpress.com/ https://osf.io/6ymqg/ Example 1: Step 1: Loading library(rvest) Step 2: Calling and parsing the webpage with the read_html function #Parse the webpage as a html object Example1 <- read_html('https://practicewebscrapingsite.wordpress.com/example-1/') Step 3: Extracting...
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DACSS 603: Final Project
DACSS 603: Final Project DACSS 603: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis final research project Megan Georges 2022-05-14 knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE) library(tidyverse) library(tidytext) library(dplyr) library(ggplot2) library(stringr) library(kableExtra) library(gssr) library(distill) library(tibble) library(stargazer) ...
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DACSS 697 Project Update
Research Question Is there a relationship between the restrictiveness of a state’s firearm regulations/laws for individuals with domestic violence related records and homicide rates perpetrated using a firearm? Background Since 1996, Federal law has banned the possession of firearms for anyone convicted of a felony or a domestic violence (D...
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DACSS 697 Final Project
DACSS 697 Final Project The data, research process, methodology, results, and takeaways from my DACSS 697: Text as Data final project Megan Georges 2022-05-09 Title and Author: “How Firearm Legislation Varies Across States for those with Domestic Violence-Related Records - and how it Relates to Firearm Homicide Rates” Megan Georges ...
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Progress Update
Progress Update DACSS697 attempt at some topic modeling Megan Georges 2022-04-24 LDA URL <- "https://www.disarmdv.org/state/" State <- c('alabama', 'alaska', 'arizona', 'arkansas', 'california', 'colorado', 'connecticut', 'delaware', 'florida', 'georgia', 'hawaii', 'idaho', 'illinois', 'indiana', 'iowa', 'kansas', 'kentucky', 'louisiana...
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Blog Post #5
Blog Post 5 DACSS 697 Blog Post #5: progress on research project - new data source scraped successfully and some basic topic modeling Megan Georges 2022-04-07 Research Question Is there a relationship between the restrictiveness of a state’s firearm regulations/laws for individuals with domestic violence related criminal records and i...
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DACSS 603: Homework 4
DACSS 603: Homework 4 Homework # 4 questions and answers for DACSS 603: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis Megan Georges 2022-04-05 Part 1, Question 1: (SMSS 14.3, 14.4, merged & modified) (Data file: house.selling.price.2 from smss R package) For the house.selling.price.2 data the tables below show a correlation matrix and a model f...
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DACSS 695: Progress Report 2
Progress Update 2 - Final Project DACSS 695: Public Opinion in Politics - all of the data I am planning to work with Megan Georges 2022-04-08 Introduction The overarching topic of this research is public opinion surrounding the criminal justice system. Specifically, the research focuses on the public’s faith in the system and overall ...
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Blog Post # 6
Research Question Is there a relationship between the restrictiveness of a state’s firearm regulations/laws for individuals with domestic violence related records and homicide rates perpetrated using a firearm? Background Since 1996, Federal law has banned the possession of firearms for anyone convicted of a felony or a domestic violence (D...
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