Sam Jackson

Exploratory NLP on Breitbart articles

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@bstarling put together a [notebook](https://github.com/Data4Democracy/assemble/blob/master/exploratory_notebooks/BreitbartEDA.ipynb) that explains how to access Breitbart articles to do analysis in Python. If you need access to the data.world dataset, ping [@jonathon](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@jonathon/) or [@sharon](https://datafordemocracy.slack.com/messages/@sharon) in...

Topic modeling for Breitbart

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We have a substantial collection of Breitbart articles (240k+ from 2012 through mid-January 2017, plus daily scrapes since January 15). The site has sections that roughly correspond to categories, but...

Network mapping/analysis prototype

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This is a proof-of-concept for network mapping/analysis of far-right blogs/websites. Basically, my (rough) thinking is we could grab all the links in a blog, parse them, and count the domains...

Content attribution guidelines

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Before we get too far along in things like community detection, we want to have some internal D4D guidelines for content attribution (doxxing, basically). We have a [document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qfZ3n25DTXVjp3ujD0kNueg1qhEDq7JLFpkq-D2kv90/edit) with some...

Some of our data contains deliberate attempts to dox people. If we can identify this data, we can exclude it from any data that we make public alongside analyses. That...