And I am finishing my Information Science Ph. Where I perform analyses on terabyte scale data sets and conduct crowdsourced experiments to enhance web search systems. My training is in machine learning, natural language processing, statistics, human computer interaction, economics, public policy, and political science. Twitter Search for Emotional Content. And augmented reality on mobile devices.

Uncommon Returns through Quantitative and Algorithmic Trading. An astute reader suggested reproducing the results from a recent article on regime analysis by Kritzman. This is a fun exercise to be conducted over a series of posts, as doing so illustrates several important economic principles and some elegant mathematics. This post begins by identifying.

Standards grease the wheels that make interoperability and cooperation possible, and for every one, there seems to be a detailed Wikipedia page about it. Here are three of my favorites.

The occasional ramblings of an east coast academic. Often about the internet, gaming, or some other similarly nerdy topic. Sometimes relevant to current events. Enjoy! Aikido and the Force.

Text tools for Political Science. Presentation, Readings and Notes. This website was developed for a June 2010 NSF sponsored workshop to introduce political scientists to text analysis. The workshop was a success and we hope to find funding to hold another one in the near future. John Wilkerson and Phil Schrodt. Welcome to the Tools for Text Workshop, made possible with support from the National Science Foundation.