no code implementations • 18 Oct 2023 • Patrick Y. Wu, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker, Solomon Messing
We use the results of these pairwise comparisons to estimate a scale using the Bradley-Terry model.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2023 • Patrick Y. Wu, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker, Solomon Messing
Existing approaches to estimating politicians' latent positions along specific dimensions often fail when relevant data is limited.
1 code implementation • 27 Oct 2022 • Patrick Y. Wu, Richard Bonneau, Joshua A. Tucker, Jonathan Nagler
Text analysis in the social sciences often involves using specialized dictionaries to reason with abstract concepts, such as perceptions about the economy or abuse on social media.
1 code implementation • 23 Sep 2021 • Patrick Y. Wu, Walter R. Mebane Jr
State-of-the-art vision-and-language models are unusable for most political science research: they require all observations to have both image and text and require computationally expensive pretraining.