Adam Olson
Data scientist. Political scientist in a previous life.
I live in Minnesota and like folk music.
Writing
- Animating DW-NOMINATE Scores with gganimateUsing gganimate to show how the ideological distribution of Congress has shifted since World War II.
- Interfacing with SQL in R Using the odbc PackageHow I structure reusable, parameterized R functions for pulling data out of SQL Server with the odbc package.
- Benford's Law and Election FraudA plain-language walkthrough of Benford's Law, and a quick check of whether the 2012 Minnesota U.S. Senate results fit the pattern.
Older writing
I blogged about Congress and politics from 2014 to 2017. Those posts are in thearchive.