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Explore survey results for 2023 Turkish Elections and see trends over time for political parties and candidates using my Galata SurveyWatch tool. Discover how I built this interactive visualization using RShiny, Highcharts, and Highcharter.

Historical project: an R package created in 2022 to analyze and visualize descriptive statistics from Twitter data.

Historical 2022 tutorial for Rtwitter, an R package for analyzing and visualizing Twitter data. The package may no longer work with the current X/Twitter platform.

Can’t you find an appointment from New Jersey’s motor vehicle department? This script lets you send an email to yourself as soon as someone cancels her appointment.

Historical 2022 guide to Twitter bot authentication with twurl. Developer access, authentication, pricing, and automation policies have since changed.

Historical 2022 guide to collecting Twitter API v2 data with twarc2. Access tiers, pricing, endpoints, and policies have since changed.

This is the repo for replication materials for the tweets on Afghanistan research. It contains shell, Python and R scripts to be run in American University’s high-performance servers. You can find code to extract tweets, estimate user ideologies of Twitter users, their bot probabilities, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling (STM) here.

Here, I estimate user ideologies on Twitter, apply bot detection, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling on tweets from the U.S. posted during the Afghanistan withdrawal to investigate how foreign-policy polarization shapes online discussions.

I apply time-series modeling after using GIS methods and image data from NASA satellites to investigate the local effects of civil conflicts on economic growth. I convert image data to geo-coded night-time light-emissions data first, and then estimate the change of economic growth in the grid level.