In the June issue of Electoral Studies, you will find an article I’ve written together with Mattia Zulianello. In the article, we introduce a comparative dataset on left, right and valence populist parties in European Parliament elections from 1979 to 2019. Here is the abstract: Despite the increasing interest in populism, there is a lack […]
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Assorted links #4
91. A Data-Driven Guide to Effective Personal Climate Action 92. 50 tips to improve user interface 93. What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages in 12 months 94. Why Do We Keep Reading The Great Gatsby? 95. Interviewing MPs 96. Thinkers at War – John Rawls 97. Beatport’s Definitive History of Techno 98. Every Country […]
Hyperintelligente superalgoritmer
Politiken kan fortælle, at “en digital superalgoritme med hidtil uset præcision” kan kortlægge hadefulde kommentarer på Facebook. Jeg har ingen idé om, hvad en superalgoritme er, men det skal man nok være enten astrofysiker eller journalistpraktikant for at vide. I en anden artikel kalder Politiken det for en “hyperintelligent algoritme”. Jeg ved heller ikke, hvad […]
Facial recognition technology and political orientation
A new paper argues that political orientation can be correctly classified with 72% accuracy using facial recognition technology. The paper begins with considerations about how “facial recognition can be used without subjects’ consent or knowledge”, which is true, but I am confident we do not need to be concerned about being able to predict people’s […]
Potpourri: Statistics #74 (Python)
892. What the f*ck Python! 893. Notes On Using Data Science & Machine Learning To Fight For Something That Matters 894. Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science 895. data-science-ipython-notebooks 896. How to make an awesome Python package in 2021 897. Tutorial: Working with Large Data Sets using Pandas and JSON in Python […]