Pablo Barberá, Dan Cervone, and I prepared a short course at New York University on Data Science and Social Science, sponsored by several institutes at NYU. The course was intended as an introd...
https://badhessian.org/2016/01/materials-for-nyu-shortcourse-on-data-science-and-social-science/
If you’re looking for a good outlet for some computationally-oriented social science work, check out the International Conference on Computational Social Science (). (Disclaimer: I am on the pr...
A few weeks ago I helped organize and instruct a Software Carpentry workshop geared towards social scientists, with the great help from folks at UW-Madison’s Advanced Computing Institute. Asid...
https://badhessian.org/2015/06/qualitative-research-and-programming/
On August 15 and 16, we held the first annual ASA Datathon at the D-Lab at Berkeley. Nearly 25 people came from academia, industry, and government participated during the 24-hour hack session....
https://badhessian.org/2014/10/report-back-on-the-asa-datathon/
The past two years we’ve had our own Bad Hessian shindig, to much win and excitement. This year we’re going to leech off other events and call them our own. The first will be the after party ...
https://badhessian.org/2014/08/where-to-party-with-bad-hessians-at-asa14/
As ASA gets closer, so does the first ASA Datathon! We’re on from 1pm August 15 through 1pm the 16th at Berkeley’s D-Lab. Public presentations and judging will take place at one of the ASA co...
https://badhessian.org/2014/06/asa-datathon-big-cities-big-data-sign-up-by-august-1/
With Season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race in the books and the new queen crowned, it’s time to reflect on how our pre-season forecasts did. In February I posted a wiki survey asking who would win�...
https://badhessian.org/2014/05/crowdsourced-season-6-drag-race-predictions/
Sadly, we haven’t posted in a while. My own excuse is that I’ve been working a lot on a dissertation chapter. I’m presenting this work at the Young Scholars in Social Movements conference a...
For my dissertation, I’ve been working on a way to generate new protest event data using principles from natural language processing and machine learning. In the process, I’ve been assessing ...
https://badhessian.org/2014/02/assessing-gdelt-with-handcoded-protest-data/
Michael Corey asked me to post this CfP for a conference “Demography in the Digital Age,” occurring at Facebook the day before ASA (August 15). Note that this is the same day as the ASA Datat...
https://badhessian.org/2014/02/call-for-proposals-demography-in-the-digital-age/