Apr
12
127 Corwin Hall
12:00 PM
Title: On linguistic approaches to social problems Abstract: In fields like natural language processing, social problems are often operationalized as linguistic problems that can be analyzed and addressed with linguistic
Mar
29
127 Corwin Hall
12:00 PM
Title: Data science and machine learning methods to improve social equity Abstract: Our society remains profoundly inequitable, due in part to biases in human and algorithmic decision-making. Addressing this, we
Mar
22
127 Corwin Hall
12:00 PM
Title: Beyond Prediction: Identifying Latent Treatments in Images Abstract: Images are a rich and crucial element of political communication. The complexity of the information they convey creates challenges for the
Mar
1
127 Corwin Hall
12:00 PM
Title: A measure of nationalization: not all subpresidential elections are created equal Abstract: Scholars have documented the upward trend of nationalization within American politics, but frequently overlook the significance of
Feb
16
127 Corwin Hall
12:00 PM
Title: "Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance" Abstract: "We develop a framework to design and analyze partial population experiments, a generalization of the
Feb
9
127 Corwin Hall
12:00 PM
Title: Using Covariates to Improve Inference in the Preference-Incorporating Choice and Assignment (PICA) Design for Randomized Controlled Trials (joint work with Adam Kaplan) Abstract: A key challenge in randomized controlled
Nov
17
127 Corwin Hall
1:30 PM
Dr. Jessica Preece, Editor of Political Behavior will be here to answer your questions about journal publishing. Dr. Preece received her PhD from UCLA in 2010 and joined Brigham Young
Dec
8
127 Corwin Hall
12:00 PM
Title: Simpler Machine Learning Models for a Complicated World Abstract: While the trend in machine learning has tended towards building more complicated (black box) models, such models have not shown
Nov
3
127 Corwin Hall
1:30 PM
Beginning at 1:30 and the second talk at 3:00 PM.