Projects
Twitter-based ideology score
Using retweets, I mapped the relationships between the Twitter accounts of 48 US Senators. Based on these relationships, I placed each politician on an axis which closely correlated with existing ideological measures. This technique could be expanded to enable studies of ideology at a much broader scale.
Congressional hearing data
I am developing a program to download transcripts of US House hearings and pre-process them for research use. My program recognizes patterns in the text to split each transcript by individual statements, enabling research by Professor Jenny Garcia and others into what politicians say in Congress.
Transit accessibility
Working with Professor Josh Davidson, I used data from Philadelphia’s SEPTA public transit system to compare accessibility before and after the addition of a new bus line between low-income neighborhoods. I statistically analyzed and visualized the data and found a significant improvement in accessibility after the line was added.