Data Analysis

Money Makes the World Go Frowned - Analyzing the Impact of Chinese Foreign Aid on States' Sentiment Using Natural Language Processing

We use natural language processing to automatically extract sentiments from political speeches of African states at the United Nations General Debate to analyze the extent that their sentiment towards the US has shifted once China became a foreign aid donor in the region

The Office Ratings

The Office is one of the greatest shows ever! How did the ratings develop over time and what happened to the ratings in the last two seasons when Michael Scott left the show? Let's find out! I use IMDB rating data and the full scripts of each episode in the schrute package to anaylze via XGBoost Trees whether more lines on an episode -- and especially those of Michael Scott -- have an impact on the ratings of the show.

Explaining Regional Patterns of Violence in Times of Political Struggle - The Case of the 2005 Parliamentary Election in Afghanistan

We use spatial analysis to visualize the geographic distribution of pre-electoral violence of the 2005 election in Afghanistan.