For those of you in the greater NYC area, we will be hosting the annual Northeast Methodology Program meeting at NYU on Friday, May 3. The program starts at noon with lunch, followed by an afternoon of presentations. This year’s presentations focus on methods for analyzing text. The lineup includes the following:
- Justin Grimmer (Stanford University), “The Impression of Influence: How Legislator Communication and Government Spending Cultivate a Personal Vote”
- Burt L. Monroe, Eitan Tzelgov, and Douglas R. Rice (Penn State University), “Measurement of Topics and Topicky Concepts in Text”
- Nick Beauchamp (Columbia University), “Someone is Wrong on the Internet: Political Argument as the Exchange of Conceptually Networked Ideas”
