Publications by AJ Strauman-Scott
Analyzing Racial Disparities in NYPD ‘Level 3’
Introduction Although a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s abusive stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional over a decade ago, reform attempts have failed and the NYPD is still accused of continuing its discriminatory practices today. Right now, the NYPD can approach anyone they want and ask questions like what their name ...
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DATA 608 Story 7
Introduction In 2022, the U.S geological survey posted the ‘final list of critical minerals’\(^1\). This list outlines the fifty minerals most essential to the global economy and security. Most key technologies are mineral-intensive. An electric vehicle (EV), for example, requires twice as much copper and manganese as an internal combustion eng...
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The State(s) of Food
Introduction Although it is rarely mentioned in the news, the issue of food security and nutrition is an increasing critical concern affecting individuals of all ages and backgrounds in today’s America. This analysis sheds meaningful light on the issue, and illuminates the intricate web of correlations between identity demographics, poverty level...
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Mortality Predictor Model Build
Introduction Large national studies of mortality, especially cardiovascular mortality, by occupation, industry, income, education or other socioeconomic factors are rare. From the studies that do exist, however, it is clear that strong relationships exist between socioeconomic factors and mortality\(^1\). These relationships may be influenced by an...
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607 Assignment 11 Recommender Systems
Introduction A recommender system is a type of information filtering system that predicts or suggests items (such as products, movies, music, articles, etc.) that a user might be interested in. These systems are widely used in various online platforms to enhance user experience and engagement. Recommender systems typically rely on user data, such a...
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607 Assignment 10: Sentiment Analysis
Introduction This work begins by recreating the example code from Text Mining with R chapter 2 “Sentiment Analysis”. Then, this work extends the code in two ways: it works with a different corpus, and it incorporates at least one additional sentiment lexicon. Code from Text Mining with R This code is recreated from ‘Text Mining with R’ ch...
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607 Assignment 9: NYT APIs in R
Other FormatsPDF (jasa) 607 Assignment 9: Working with New York Times APIs Author Affiliation AJ Strauman-Scott City University of New York SPS Published March 24, 2024 This paper’s assignment is to choose one of the New York Times Developer APIs and use it to construct an interface in R to read in the JSON data, and transform...
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DATA 607 Assignment 7
Introduction This assignment challenges us to begin working with html and json files. The tasks of this paper are to: Code a table or database of 3 books with corresponding facts by hand in each of the three formats; HTML, XML and JSON. Load the three files into an R project through this markdown document and create three separate dataframes Compa...
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Data 607 Project 2
Table of contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Tidy Data Definition 2 First Dataset 2.1 Tidy the Data 2.2 Exploratory Analysis 3 Second Dataset 3.1 Tidy the Data 3.2 Exploratory Analysis 4 Third Dataset 4.1 Tidy the Data 4.2 Exploratory Analysis 5 Conclusion Other FormatsPDF (jasa) Tidying Datasets with Wickham’s Tidyverse Author Affiliation A...
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DATA607 Week 5 Assignment
Introduction We have been provided this “wide” dataset with the following instructions: Create a .csv file that matches the ‘wide’ structure of the data we were provided, in order to practice our tidyr and dplyr data scrubbing skills. Read the .csv file into R Studio, and use the packages above to tidy and transform the data as required. P...
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