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Very honored to have my work with Matthew Hayes (polisci.wustl.edu/people/matthew…) highlighted by PS: Political Science & Politics for #BlackHistoryMonth In this piece and other related work, we argue the way civil rights is discussed on Capitol Hill matters. Full stop. #FramingMatters

Super excited to have this paper in print! Third publication to use various types of pedestrian tracking to understand our social and political world. Other two are here: bit.ly/nyc_sidewalks2… and here: bit.ly/cspan_mingling… #videoasdata

Super excited! See Ju Yeon (Julia) Park (online) NEXT WED (3/27) @ 2:30pm ET as part of Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement Video Research Workshop! Congress hearing transcripts (1997-2018) + cool measure of analytic information transmission. SOLD! 👉 bit.ly/VideoWorkshopC… #TextasData #WomenAlsoKnowStuff

Last post about Ju Yeon (Julia) Park talk tomorrow @ 2:30pm ET (Register: bit.ly/VideoWorkshopC…). Promise! Just wanted to say it is a true honor to host someone who I have known since she was a postdoc. This paper + her position @ OSU truly shows hard work pays off! #womenalsoknowstuff

Reminder, this event is today. Please join us and Ju Yeon Park in a free video workshop stating at 2:30pm (ET). Registration is open: cla.purdue.edu/communication/… #research #cspan

Very excited to serve as a keynote speaker for Visual Media Symposium on April 8th (3pm - 6:30pm CT). Presenting work w/ @melissaleesands and discussing lessons we have learned using Virtual Reality for social science research. More information next week! #videoasdata #vrpolitics

Speakers: Bryce J. Dietrich - Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue Liberal Arts. Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen - professor of communication at UC Davis and the co-director of the Computational Communication Research lab. T.J. Thomson | @[email protected] - Senior Lecturer at RMIT University Australia 2/3

I am SUPER excited to have @ProfNateKelly join us for the final installment (this semester) of Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement Video Research Workshop (VRW) THIS FRIDAY @ 2:30pm ET! Big fan of @ProfNateKelly work, so really can't wait! More coming tomorrow. Register here: bit.ly/VideoWorkshopC…

That’s a wrap on the inaugural Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement Video Research Institute (bit.ly/VRI_2024)! Curriculum focused on ML (especially transformers) + text/audio/video data. These excellent students finished a challenging (yet fun) week. True pleasure to work with! #videoasdata

Been on parental leave, so took a break from social media, but I am back to remind everyone that the deadline for the C-SPAN Research Conference is THIS FRIDAY (1/31)! Info here: cla.purdue.edu/communication/… Conference is online + we pay you $1500. Have an API + lots of metadata!

C-SPAN Research Conference submission deadline is TODAY! Info here: cla.purdue.edu/communication/… We pay you $1500 to present virtually! API + metadata = lots of fun! Already have had lots of great submissions! Super excited for the conference.

Will be presenting (online) new work sponsored by Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement tomorrow at 12pm ET. We use tweets, youtube videos, and 25K floor speeches from 2017 to 2022 to explore the dissemination of floor speeches on social media. Sign up here: purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aW…

Very exciting to have this project in the wild! 9,707 presidential ads (videos) + transcripts + metadata are now available to you! Data is here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ctap and the paper is here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.22589 #videoasdata

On 4/25, NSF told MikeCrespin, Kosuke Imai, and I that our project was axed. Still wanted to celebrate our 1-month anniversary. Since going live on 4/1 our data (dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ctap) has been downloaded 11,552 times. Thanks! Keep downloading! Paper: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

I want to thank Elon Musk for firing the friends and students I know. Also, really appreciate you canceling my grant and the grants of others using keyword searches, super smart. Good luck with getting the bots off your platform. #TeslaTakedown #boycottTesla

We are a little past the 2-month anniversary of our data going live on April 1st. We are currently at 24,099 downloads! Thanks for the continued interest! Data here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ctap Project website here: campaigntvads.org Paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22589