Tag: Partisanship
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NOMINATE Application Deep Dive
If you are a reader of data journalism, it’s likely you’ve seen partisan scores quantified; odds are, those partisan scores were generated with DW-Nominate. DW-Nominate comes from the NOMINATE family of multidimensional scaling applications, developed by Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal in the 1980s. NOMINATE applications use roll call voting data (or the individual…
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The Math Behind Why Congress Just Can’t Seem to Get Along
Happy Father’s Day! Dads are awesome and it’s great to have a day dedicated to celebrating them. To my dad, thanks for being my role model (sorry for always kicking your butt at tennis). To the rest of the dads out there, live it up today and make sure you tell some cheesy jokes for…
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Polarization in Congress: The Importance of Math to Politics
This week, we are going to focus more on data than on politics. We will examine how math can be used to better understand human social dynamics, and by the end of this newsletter, I hope to have you thinking more like a social scientist. For this Sunday’s graph, I have made a map of…
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How do partisans feel about the two parties?
Happy mothers day! I would like to take the introduction to this newsletter to thank all the moms out there. To my mom, you’ve raised two good kids and I’m grateful to have you as a role model – thank you so much for all that you do. To the other moms of the world,…
Data Driven Politics 