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Michael Overton

@moverton.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Idaho Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science Data junkie in my professional life. Huge nerd in my personal life. All opinions are my own.

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Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
📣🏆2026 Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award Recipients: Michael Overton & Eric Stokan urbanaffairsassociation.org/2026/03/30/2... @moverton.bsky.social @ericjstokan.bsky.social
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Yes, that was intentional.
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It only suggested a small twerk.
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Public Finance Journal @publicfinance.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Is There a Gold Standard or Need for a City-Centric Approach for Sales Tax Revenue Forecasting" by @slizlarson.bsky.social & @moverton.bsky.social‬ introduces PREE as a way to maximize the accuracy of sales tax revenue forecasting. doi.org/10.59469/pfj...
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Roverton Home for Old Shihs @barrylarryterry.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Love our front yard in spring
Dark purple and pink hyacinths sit next to smaller grape hyacinths
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Check out the Preprint of my article: "TaMPERing with Large Language Models: A Field Guide for using Generative AI in Public Administration Research" if you are interested in learning more about LLMs and how you can use them in scientific research! arxiv.org/abs/2504.01037
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TaMPERing with Large Language Models: A Field Guide for using Generative AI in Public Administration Research
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into social science research presents transformative opportunities for advancing scientific inquiry, particularly in public administration (PA). However...
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
AI will come for your job once it figures out how to consistently OCR a PDF.
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Are you sure there isn't a more timely topic? s/
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It is pretty disingenuous to claim that you were always saying "rectangles are not GENERALLY squares" when you literally said "Entity classification is *not* a generative task." I really wish you had approached this in good faith.
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Sent!
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Are you discussing storytelling with data? If so, I have some slides that might be useful.
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The only thing I can think is that they were actually using a locally hosted LLM and was sending each row as a separate call.
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Like Dr. Resh, I am appreciative of good faith criticisms. But, I must disagree with your assessment. Generative AI especially reasoning models can be used in classification tasks. The LLM-as-a-judge lit is predicated on LLMs producing judgements often in the form of classifications.
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Respectfully, the example would use multiple generative AI skills such as entity recognition and reasoning to infer threat levels. The example implies the use of a multi modal generative AI system, but their are corollaries with LLM natural language understanding and natural language inference.
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A timely article and great example of the potential of LLMs in research.
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Michael Overton @moverton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Last fall, IIDS launched a Generative AI Fellowship to empower scholars in exploring how AI can transform their research. Check out this great write-up on one of our Fellows and see how they’re leveraging AI in their work! 👇 www.uidaho.edu/news/feature...
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AI unlocks lessons on cello techniques from the 19th century
🚀 AI meets classical music! University of Idaho researchers used generative AI to translate a century-old book on cello technique, making it freely accessible to musicians everywhere. What lost knowle...
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