Name: Christopher Fariss
Type: User
Company: University of Michigan
Bio: Professor, Department of Political Science and Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.
Twitter: cjfariss
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Blog: cfariss.com
Christopher Fariss's Projects
Essex Summer School Advanced Computational Methods for Social Media and Textual Data
Data science course content for undergraduate political science and international studies students learning to program in R.
R code and STAN model files that generate latent human rights scores using a dynamic ordinal item-response theory model.
Project files for an article titled: "The Search for Human Rights: A Global Analysis Using Google Data", conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review.
Course material and R code for a graduate course on measurement theory
a minimal website for scholars using Flask
R Introduction material consolidated from several short courses and short assignments.
R Program Challenges for my Essex graduate summer school course and my University of Michigan undergraduate data science course.