🚨 New R package and paper! 🚨 fuzzylink is a method for merging datasets with non-exact matches on key variables. The paper walks through several useful political science applications--linking voter files, campaign contribution data, and even multilingual records. The package is available on CRAN.

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

🦜Do you want to train your stochastic parrot? ➡️ @joeornstein.bsky.social @enblasingame.bsky.social @jaketruscott.bsky.social share best practices for using large language models (LLMs) in social science measurement tasks and processing large text-as-data projects www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some thoughts about this paper, on the long-awaited day of its publication:

After what felt like ages, very(!) excited to finally see this work in print with @joeornstein.bsky.social & @enblasingame.bsky.social Link: bit.ly/409THxY

there are two profs on my committee who don't respond to emails so i've started turning my subject lines into research clickbait and it's criminally effective

New website just dropped! joeornstein.github.io Remarkable how much easier it is to build a site with Quarto than my old blogdown/Hugo monstrosity.

Cool. Everyone is here now.