As part of his Spring 2015 Data Visualization class, Associate Professor Yusaku Horiuchi organized a contest for his students. The top five student submissions were chosen by voting. The selected data visualizations are displayed in the slideshow to the left; if the slideshow is not visible, please click on the title of this article and the carousel will appear.
[more]Workshop Guest Speakers from Harvard University:Matthew Blackwell is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He studies political methodology, with a focus on dynamic causal inference, missing data, panel data, and social network analysis. His substantive interests include American politics, negative advertising, and historical political economy. (source: http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/matthew-blackwell)
[more]Professor John Carey reviews Chile's overhaul of its system for electing legislators in Latin America Goes Global. The link for his related paper is http://sites.dartmouth.edu/jcarey/files/2013/02/Malapportionment-and-ideological-bias-in-Chilean-electoral-districts.pdf.
[more]American Congress members' social circles are more important in how they vote than their liberal or conservative beliefs or constituents' opinions, according to a new model of voting behavior created by Dartmouth College researchers Scott Pauls and Daniel Rockmore. Read the article in Science Daily from May 26, 2015. The link for the associated paper is https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053168015570415.
[more]In November of 2011, when the Financial Stability Board and International Monetary Fund published a list of 29 systematically important financial institutions (SIFIs), the metrics they used didn’t properly consider the complexity within the corporation, a new study concludes. Read the story in the "New Scientist" and "ValueWalk."
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