Introducing Back of the Napkin: Are crazy ideas really that crazy?
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Back of the Napkin” Introducing Back of the Napkin: Are crazy ideas really that crazy? Back...More
Methodology
Trump Watch retrospective: What did we learn in 2017?
This is post 12 of 18 in the series “Trump Watch” Presenting the Trump Watch (tick…tick…tick..) New Dataset – @realDonaldTrump Tweet corpus Just how oddball...More
No tax reform without representative representation
This is post 1 of 4 in the series “One dollar, one vote” No tax reform without representative representation Booze or women or movies? The...More
How does attacker race change the way Washington talks about mass shootings?
By: Patrick W. ZimmermanHow we talk about violence is indicative of how we think about it, a window into the underlying sociocultural underpinnings of our...More
Inside the Resistance Bubble
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Political bubbles” Inside the MAGA bubble: How bad information is affecting President Trump’s decision-making Inside the...More
The history of FEMA emergency declarations is a chart of the real-world cost of climate change
By: Patrick W. ZimmermanThe destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey in Texas is terrifying and, as has been helpfully pointed out by sources as antagonistic to...More
What we think about sports cheating tells us a lot about what we think about gender, race, and sexuality
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Sports, Racism, & the Internet” What do sports fans search for when they think no one...More
Inside the MAGA bubble: How bad information is affecting President Trump’s decision-making
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Political bubbles” Inside the MAGA bubble: How bad information is affecting President Trump’s decision-making Inside the...More
What do sports fans search for when they think no one is looking? A Kaepernick case study
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Sports, Racism, & the Internet” What do sports fans search for when they think no one...More
Applied Bracketeering: Does our model also work for the NCAA Women’s tournament?
This is post 6 of 19 in the series “Bracketeering” March Madness Bracketeering Applied Bracketeering: Modeling March Madness Bracketeering update: Mascot randomness is beating the...More