Computational Methods

Sentiment Analysis of News

Jessica T. Feezell, Kathleen Searles, Joshua Darr, Ray Pingree, Mingxiao Sui, John K. Wagner, and Brian Watson. “Scrolling Headlines v. Clicking: The Differential Impact of News Consumption Habits on Political Behavior and Public Opinion” Under Review at American Journal of Political Science.

Automated Labeling of Issue Categories

John K. Wagner and Jennifer Oser. “The Parasocial Citizen: Social Media Relationships between Citizens and their Representatives in the United States” Work in Progress.

Automated Labeling and Categorization of Candidate Backgrounds

Krebs, Timothy and John Wagner. 2022. “Women and Local Politics: How Office Type Affects Female Candidacies.” Political Research Quarterly , 76(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129221136805

Timothy Krebs and John Wagner. 2023. “Try, Try Again: Candidate Persistance in California Local Politics.” Presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Conference, 2023.

Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning

Trained by Cassy Dorff, Ph.D.

Network Analysis

Code Packages

Zoom Transcript Fixer

This repository contains a Jupyter Notebook that parses Zoom's self-generated audio transcripts, and outputs a .txt and .docx file of the transcript which combines each speaker's adjacent spoken words. By default, Zoom breaks each person's speech up every set amount of time. This results in pages of transcript for a few sentences of actual transcribed text. This notebook file searches for all .txt files in a selected directory, and combines adjacent transcribed speech from the same speaker.

Coding & Computation