From Insights to Comparisons

Theory

Presentation & Discussion

• Barber, M., and Jeremy C. Pope. (2019). Does Party Trump Ideology? Disentangling Party and Ideology in America. American Political Science Review, 113(1), 38–54.

Code

The Data Science Pipeline

Extracting Insights from Observations

Tip

To load and use a notebook in VS Code follow the steps 3 to 5 in 📘 Notebooks in VS Code

• To start, download and open the notebooks directly in VS Code:
  • Get the Notebooks from the GitHub repository

Application

Start your Research Project Notebook

• In VS Code, create a new Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb file) to serve as the foundation for your research project.
• Begin developing and organising relevant code and analyses that contribute to your reproducible research paper (your final project).

Get Ready for Next Week: Think. Read. Practice.

Mandatory Reading, Reading Note & Presentation

• Panish, A. R. (2025). Informed or Overwhelmed? Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive Ability and Information on Public Opinion. British Journal of Political Science, 55, 1-24.

Practice

• Run through notebooks #04 and #05.
  • Get the Notebooks from the GitHub repository

Thinking Ahead

• Copy/paste and update code in prevoius notebooks (#4 and #5) to start building the code and analyses for your final research project.