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Agency-level fatal police shootings over time
Dr. Justin Nix has been hard at work locating historical data for lethal police shootings in the United States. With his permission, the following tool allows you to see individual agencies in the dataset.
LEMAS 2016 and 2020 Turnover Comparison
In this blog post, we will analyze and compare the turnover rates of local police agencies with 100 or more sworn officers in the United States using the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) data from 2016 and 2020.
An Upstanding Rebellion
Note: GPT3 is relatively highly skilled in producing essays. Question though - how is it at generating fiction? The answer - not as good. What will this look like in a year?
Strong Minds and Bodies
Maintaining a fitness routine can be a challenge for anyone, but for academics, it can be particularly difficult. Our demanding work schedules and sedentary lifestyles can leave little time or energy for exercise.
Counting "Select All That Apply" Questions in Qualtrics
Qualtrics Messy Data My friend Devon Cantwell reached out with an interesting messy data caused by how Qualtrics produces “select all that apply” variables. For example, in her (mock) survey, she asks students to select all the colors that they personally find attractive from a list.
Developing Race and Gender Estimates for US Law Enforcement Leadership
Introduction Researchers might be interested in developing a descriptive understanding of the gender and race composition of a particular industry, organization, or other institution. Oftentimes this is done with sampling from a population.
Using ggplot2 to visualize the frequency of your name!
How popular is your name? I really liked this simple ggplot2 exercise from Jenna Eagleson that I stumbled across today. I’m going to reproduce it here, and I think it’s a useful exercise for students who are still learning the tidyverse and ggplot2 packages to play around with.
Tidysynth Demonstration
Synthetic control methodologies come in many flavors. Most commonly, Scott Mourtgos and I use “Bayesian Structural Time Series,” but there are others. One exciting new package brings synth models to the tidyverse.
Git Marker
I’ve struggled mightily with Github over the years. I kind of got the idea, but the practice of it always left me frustrated, and the time-sink necessary to figure it all out was always just out of reach.
Latex Equations From Model Objects the Equatiomatic Package
As I was building a recent preprint, and trying to translate a long Bayesian formula (courtesy the big brain of Scott Mourtgos) into properly specified LaTeX, I thought there has to be a better way.
Public Policy Data Sources
General Data Sources The questions posed in public policy research are astoundingly varied. Crime, medicine, environmental, and political questions are all valid domains. Given that variety, it is no surprise that the data sources tapped by public policy scholars are similarly varied.
Website migrated
This is a post to breadcrumb the migration of the previous website. Turns out that updating the hugo package, the blogdown package, the academic theme, and installing the Rstudio preview build all in the same day was a good way to blow up the previous iteration.
