"Did the London Bombings Change Social Capital in UK?" Jake Bowers, Univ of IL Dept of Political Sci. Here is 1 way to use machine learning to make precise experimental inferences.

Alex Garlick, Political Science Dept, UPenn. This talk uses bill-level lobbying data from 2 states in 2011-2014 to show that lobbying can lead legislators to vote on party lines.

Jason Barabas, Stony Brook University; Many experiments use “opt-in” convenience samples from unknown populations, but does this mean that the results do not generalize?

Seminar with Michael Link, Ph.D., SVP Measurement Science Institute, Nielsen & President, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).

Brendan Nyhan, Gov. Dept. We show risks of post-treatment bias in turnout studies using voter files conditioning on registration; offer a new analysis approach to diagnose effects.

Michael Herron, Professor of Government and Chair, Program in Quantitative Social Science, and David Cottrell, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in Quantitative Social Science

We examine the factors leading to Germany’s decision to bail out Greece in 2012 and conclude it was political rather than economic factors that drove the decision making.

Quantitative Social Science is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the use of statistics, computing, and other analytical methods in the social sciences.

Seminar with Jacob Montgomery Ph.D., from the Political Science Department, Washington University, St. Louis

"Decoding the IPO Prospectus: Comparative Text and Metric-based Analysis of implied SaaS Company Growth"