In Oct 2020, I shared a rough draft of what I wrote up as a guideline on political science R1 job market for Caltech graduate students as I prepared to graduate. Seeing how many people came up to me and said this was helpful, especially the month-to-month to-do list, I...
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R-Ladies Dallas Presentation: Reproducible R Workflows for Research Papers
I gave a talk today at R-Ladies Dallas via Zoom. The meetup was recorded and a video is now available here. The slides are here. TL;DR you should not do the following things for reproducibility within and across research projects: Not working in an R project Not using Git (version...
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Caltech/MIT VTP Advisory: Making Sure That Your Vote Is Counted In 2020
The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, which I am part of, issued an advisory PDF titled “Making Sure That Your Vote Is Counted In 2020.”
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2020 Iowa Caucuses, in pictures
Thanks to the 2020 Iowa Caucus Conference hosted by Caroline Tolbert at the University of Iowa, I have been able to see the rallies, the field office operations, and ultimately the 2020 Iowa caucuses myself. Here are some of the pictures that captured the storm.
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ESRA 2019 short brief
The 3rd annual Election Sciences, Reform, & Administration Conference wrapped up successfully, at the University of Pennsylvania. Although there were no streams/videos recorded, here is a short brief on our working paper that was presented, posted on Medium by the MIT Election Lab.