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Joe Ornstein

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Political Science @ UGA joeornstein.github.io

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Joe Ornstein @joeornstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🚨 New R package and paper! 🚨 fuzzylink is a method for merging datasets with non-exact matches on key variables. The paper walks through several useful political science applications--linking voter files, campaign contribution data, and even multilingual records. The package is available on CRAN.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🦜Do you want to train your stochastic parrot? ➡️ @joeornstein.bsky.social @enblasingame.bsky.social @jaketruscott.bsky.social share best practices for using large language models (LLMs) in social science measurement tasks and processing large text-as-data projects www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Joe Ornstein @joeornstein.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Some thoughts about this paper, on the long-awaited day of its publication:
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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
After what felt like ages, very(!) excited to finally see this work in print with @joeornstein.bsky.social & @enblasingame.bsky.social Link: bit.ly/409THxY
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How to train your stochastic parrot: large language models for political texts | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
How to train your stochastic parrot: large language models for political texts
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alex hayes @alexpghayes.com · 12/12/2023
there are two profs on my committee who don't respond to emails so i've started turning my subject lines into research clickbait and it's criminally effective
drake meme. top panel: subject: scheduling committee meeting. bottom panel: YOUR FAVORITE ESTIMAND MIGHT BE UNIDENTIFIED IN OUR MODEL, ACT NOW TO LEARN MORE
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Joe Ornstein @joeornstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
New website just dropped! joeornstein.github.io Remarkable how much easier it is to build a site with Quarto than my old blogdown/Hugo monstrosity.
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Joe Ornstein @joeornstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Cool. Everyone is here now.
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