Challenges in Using Public Records to Study Political Participation

Yale Day of Data Spring Discussion Series
April 17, 2016

We hope you’ll join us for the third talk in the Day of Data Spring Discussion Series: “Challenges in Using Public Records to Study Political Participation.”

Our speaker is Eitan Hersh, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Resident Faculty Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. His teaching and research focus on elections in the United States; Hersh studies campaign strategy, voting behavior, and election administration. His current work examines the effects of information and technology on candidate behavior. In June 2015, he published Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters (Cambridge University Press).

Thursday, April 21, 1:30-3:00 PM
Institution for Social & Policy Studies, A001, 77 Prospect Street

Yale University Library has partnered with the Yale Center for Research Computing and the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies to present the Yale Day of Data Spring Discussion Series for 2016. These events bring together researchers from across the Yale community for an in-depth discussion on how they collect, manage, analyze, and share data from projects in political science, medicine, cultural heritage, and more. For more information, visit http://researchdata.yale.edu.