Working With Data

Agenda

• Collaborative paper discussion
• Hack-time: VS Code, Python and Notebooks
• For next time

Collaborative paper discussion

Mental Model for Reviewers.

Hack-time

Let's make use of our new package manager!

• Install Python
• Install VS Code

VS Code?

• 📘 VS Code, Python and Notebooks

Misc ...

• For now join the shared GitHub repository

For next time

Writers

• Literature review draft paragraph with subsections (just before data & methods) for each of the key concepts (at least 3).
  • Definitions: Is affective polarisation clearly distinguished from ideological polarisation and negative partisanship?
  • Multi-party AP literature (e.g., Knudsen; Reiljan; Torcal; Wagner...)?
  • France-specific ?
• Propose 1-3 tentative titles
• 5-10-minute Writers overview

Hackers

• Prepare a working Jupyter notebook in VS Code that can :
  • Install and load the pandas package (Google it)
  • Ingests a .csv file of the latest CSES or the latest ESS dataset
  • Identifies candidate AP variables (eg. available like-dislike variables)
• 5-10-minute Hackers demo

Reviewers

• 5-minute Brief
  • I like, I wish, I wonder
  • Top 3 risks for the paper at the moment and concrete fixes