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. 041
Reposted by Joe OrnsteinAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025I’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/ 571468434
Reposted by Joe OrnsteinPolitical 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... 2171
Joe Ornstein @joeornstein.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Some thoughts about this paper, on the long-awaited day of its publication: 131
Reposted by Joe OrnsteinJake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · 14/01/2025After what felt like ages, very(!) excited to finally see this work in print with @joeornstein.bsky.social & @enblasingame.bsky.social Link: bit.ly/409THxYbit.lyHow to train your stochastic parrot: large language models for political texts | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge CoreHow to train your stochastic parrot: large language models for political texts 051
Reposted by Joe Ornsteinalex hayes @alexpghayes.com · 12/12/2023there 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 327470
Joe Ornstein @joeornstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2023New website just dropped! joeornstein.github.io Remarkable how much easier it is to build a site with Quarto than my old blogdown/Hugo monstrosity.joeornstein.github.ioJoseph T. Ornstein 040