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Stefan McCabe

@sdmccabe.com

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counting things on the internet

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Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com · 02/06/2025

A Postdoc for Mr Biswas

A passage from VS Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas:

And that was what Mr Biswas continued to feel about their venture: that it was temporary and not quite real, and it didn't matter how it was arranged. He had felt that on the first after-noon; and the feeling lasted until he left The Chase. Real life was to begin for them soon, and elsewhere. The Chase was a pause, a preparation.

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Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com · 26/03/2025

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Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com · 26/12/2024

Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities is the original large language model

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Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com · 30/03/2024

the aronow and miller textbook is on display at second story books - big win for political methodology

Picture of a display window outside Second Story Books, including Foundations of Agnostic Statistics

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Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com · 04/03/2024

Dan Hopkins has a working paper with Fox’s mentions of immigration compared to mentions of Black Americans, but the time series stops in mid-2022. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com · 26/09/2023

But it's not just memes. There's also a lot of collective emotion. And overlooking this kind of content can lead researchers astray, by underestimating young people's interest in politics and by overlooking the role of emotion and imagining discourse to be more Spock-like than it really is. (5/6)

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Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com · 26/09/2023

What are these overlooked Tweets? Well, it's a lot of memes. (4/6)

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Stefan McCabe @sdmccabe.com · 26/09/2023

We how keyword approaches lead to significant false negatives (compared to good old-fashioned hand coding/content analysis) when identifying election-related Tweets, and that the false negative rates are higher for younger people. (2/6)

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