Author Archives: schrodt735

So, punk, think ya can start a data science program??

Posted on April 25, 2017

This is the second part of a two-essay series addressing some of the features one might wish to include in a contemporary “data science” program using resources in existing quantitative “social science” programs. The first, a rather rambling polemic, addressed … Continue reading →

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Yes, Virginia, the social and data sciences are “science”

Posted on April 21, 2017

Dedicated to the memory of Will H. Moore This is the first in a two-part series on leveraging quantitative social science programs to provide training in data science, inspired by a recent invitation to provide input on that topic at … Continue reading →

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Reflecting on the suicide of Will Moore

Posted on April 19, 2017

I spent most of today working on a new blog post motivated in part by a re-tweet of a teaser for same by, well, Will Moore. Who I had seen in Phoenix only six weeks ago where he introduced my … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Uber, brogrammers, and the effectiveness of working class programmers

Posted on March 5, 2017

The toxic “brogrammer” culture has been in the news again, initially with the blog posting of engineer Susan J. Fowler’s year-long experience with sexual harassment at Uber, the reaction of Uber’s CEO [1] Travis Kalanick who was shocked, shocked to … Continue reading →

Posted in Methodology, Programming | 1 Comment

Seven Conjectures on the State of Event Data

Posted on February 20, 2017

[This essay was originally prepared as a memo in advance of the “Workshop on the Future of the CAMEO Ontology”, Washington DC, 11 October 2016, said workshop leading to the new PLOVER specification. I had intended to post the memo to the blog … Continue reading →

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A Numerical Reflection upon the 2015-2016 APSA Placement Statistics

Posted on February 7, 2017

[Okay, this “Seven…” gimmick isn’t working for producing finished blogs—mind you, I’ve got about a dozen 50%-80% finished entries in the pipeline—and [shock!] there are things that can be said with less than “Seven…” witty subcategories, but are still longer than an extended set … Continue reading →

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Seven Observations on the 2016 Election

Posted on November 12, 2016

On my day-pack I’ve got a little enamelled pin I bought several years back in a small shop in Juneau run by a guy who has, well, opinions. It shows a typewriter with the words “Write hard, die free.” [1] So, … Continue reading →

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