I’m giving two talks tomorrow at ISA. One is a paper evaluating the concept of institutions as it is used in the literature on foreign aid and development. The panel will be held at 1:45 in the Starboard room of the Hilton (Riverside Building).
The second paper is on using Processing to produce graphics for slides. The paper will be presented at 3:45 in the Norwich room of the Hilton.
The Processing paper draws on some of the graphics and code that I have been posting over the last few months:
I hope that people can stop by. If anyone is at ISA and on twitter, send me a message at @ryanbriggs and say hi.
I wrote a little program to query the NY Times API and generate text output that can be easily copied into the advanced section of Wordle to create tag clouds of news coverage. The example above shows the most popular places in the Times, conditional on the description of the article being “US International Relations.” Each picture covers one year. The colour is currently meaningless.
You can download the code here.
I’m heading home for the holidays, and because my home is in a tiny town in rural Ontario (and therefore doesn’t have access to high speed internet) I probably won’t be blogging much until January.
I hope everyone enjoys a much needed break and a peaceful and happy new year. I’ll see you in 2010.
The eight years before 9/11 had a higher percentage of articles tagged with both Islam and terrorism than the eight years after. This change is not accounted for by an increase in tags of “jihad,” as that tag (or one similar to it) doesn’t exist.
On the other hand, in the eight before 9/11, 27% of all articles tagged with Islam were also tagged with terrorism (this is what you see if you only look at the blue and green areas). In the eight years after, that number increased to 43%. All of the usual data quality caveats apply.
The data for all of these charts is from the New York Times Article Search API.
