data science

Last night, President Trump gave a speech in Phoenix that sounded a lot like his campaign speeches in 2016. Build a wall… Radical Islamic terrorism… Crooked... »

As more and more people take to Twitter to keep up on fast-developing events, it’s more important than ever important to understand how their platform facilitates... »

A lot happened online on May 5, 2017. Ben Starling, CE Carey, and I found evidence of a massive disinformation campaign taking place on Twitter and... »

I’ve been researching and publishing a lot lately on misinformation, disinformation, ad-tech, sockpuppets, bots, media literacy, election hacking, and the Trump administration. There’s a lot there.... »

Donald Trump talks about immigration in some uniquely horrifying ways. We’re all familiar with his “not sending us their best people” speech from early in his... »

Online advertising plays a crucial role in the spread of misinformation. As Bill Fitzgerald wrote last week, Right now, the status quo in adtech is to... »

The more we study extremist communities online, the more convinced we are that standard advertising practices play a significant role in the spread of misinformation. Further,... »

The Trump administration has been drastically changing the way it communicates information with the public. One of the first pages people noticed missing from the Trump... »

One of the best places to get your feet wet with text mining is Twitter data. Though not as open as it used to be for... »

Almost immediately after the election, people started noticing pages disappearing from federal government websites. Some of this is par for the course in a new administration.... »

Can artificial intelligence identify potential terrorist activity? This past week, BBC News published an article, “Facebook algorithms ‘will identify terrorists’”. It describes the content of a... »

When Donald Trump became president of the United States, a lot disappeared from the administration website, whitehouse.gov. This is standard practice for a new administration, and... »

The New York Philharmonic has a public dataset containing metadata for their entire performance history. I recently discovered this, and of course downloaded it and started... »

Official results are not yet in from every state, but we have good enough numbers to start to tackle some of the statistical questions surrounding last... »

I created a series of tutorials for my Computational Music Analysis students this summer, introducing them to basic analysis and visualization of musical data in RStudio.... »

I have to do some Python coding for The Lieder Project that involves Euclidean distance and variance in three-dimensional space. I’m positive that modules for these... »

This morning, my four-year-old was reading Green Eggs and Ham to me. I’ve heard that Dr. Seuss was intentional about using developmental psychology to inform how... »

Computational musicology is a young, growing field ― one in which I find myself increasingly involved. In addition to The Lieder Project, I will be teaching... »