I write about data analysis and my sociology research.

Using Slot Classes in DocTable Schemas

Allowing for defaulted parameters in slot classes using decorators so they can be used as doctable schemas.

June 15, 2021

Using SQLite to store and manage large Python objects

My solution in doctable and some basic benchmark results.

June 8, 2021

Reflections on creating text analysis workshops

Learning these methods is about developing your own design patterns and learning the most fundamental approaches.

Dec 3, 2019

New repo for cleaned NSS documents

I created some python code to download US National Security Strategy documents from github for your text analysis examples.

Dec 3, 2019

UCSB Instructional Development Grant

We received an instructional development grant to help sociology students learn computational methods.

April 11, 2019

Texts and Images of Austerity in Britain

A new project about austerity in the UK.

December 30, 2017

Topic Modeling for Undergraduate Sociology Students

Thoughts from a pilot program to teach Sociology undergraduates how to use topic modeling.

December 30, 2017

Theory, Method, and Reproducibility in Text Analysis

I respond to critiques of computational methods for hermeneutic analysis.

Dec 29, 2017

Fieldwork in Colombia

My summer 2017 research on politics and culture in Colombia

December 24, 2017