Coding Projects

Dissertation:

• LDA for topic identification in Tweets during national crisis

• Creation of novel stop word list for Swahili Twitter data

• Automated script for cleaning, transforming, and analyzing Afrobarometer data

Consultant Work:

• Automated ETL script for nationally representative surveys

• Created figures and presented results in external and internal reports

• Analyzed embedded survey experiments

Fellowship Duties:

• Provided one-on-one code reviews

• Onboarded PhD students to software used in our program

• Created presentation on preprocessing text data in R

Papers

Transportation costs and colonial onset (WP) - With Jan Pierskalla and Maryam Alum.

Early statehood and support for autocratic rule (CPS) - with Vladimir Chlouba and Daniel Smith.

Courses taught and designed

Political Analysis II - an applied statistical methods course taught for undergraduate students to work with real data and produce working code and analysis that they then present.

Comparative Political Behavior - designed as a 200 level course but could be modified for 400 level. This course introduces comparative political behavior, focusing on broad themes, voting behavior, and accountability