Symposium on Data Science and Elections

Details
You are invited to join a symposium at Reed College that will feature the results of 8 student research projects in election science. The projects feature extensive use of the tidyverse suite of tools for data wrangling/visualization and aim for analyses that are transparent and reproducible. Research topics include:
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Forecasting models for state legislatures
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Alternative voting schemes: Rank Choice Voting in San Francisco
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Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in the Media
A full list of projects can be found at the course repo: http://www.github.com/ds-elections (still under construction!).
Presentations will begin at 9:30 am, last until roughly 10:45, and will be followed by a poster session. Refreshments will be served
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Location: Vollum Lounge (in Vollum College Center), at Reed College Reed Campus Map (https://www.reed.edu/facilities_services/reed_static_map.html)
Start time: 930 am
End time: 1130 am

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Symposium on Data Science and Elections