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Some things journalists may want to consider:

1. Anecdotes can mislead. People seeing another yet another episodic story on crime may infer that crime is increasing. 
   So report numbers where trustworthy numerical data are available.

2. But numbers need to be reported carefully. Most people, when reading news, do not do back of the envelope calculations to interpret data correctly. 
  So ill-reported numbers can mislead. 

3. Rules for numbers:
  a. % changes than changes in %. The former is more impressive when the base rate is low. Latter generally a better way to report things. If confused, report t1 and t2.  

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'''
Text from Searchable pdfs
Scrape Text off Wisconsin Ads pdfs

Uses pyPdf to get text from searchable pdfs. The script is for tailored for getting data 
from Wisconsin Political Ads Database: http://wiscadproject.wisc.edu/Storyboards.

@author: Gaurav Sood

Created on November 02, 2011

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'''
Basic Sentiment Analysis
Builds on:
    https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/simplest-sentiment-analysis-in-python-with-af/
    
    Utilizes AFINN or a custom sentiment db
    
    Example Snippets at end from: https://code.google.com/p/sentana/wiki/ExampleSentiments
'''

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Note:

55000/(365*4) ~ 37.7. That seems a touch low for Sec. of state.

Caveats:
1. Clinton may have used more than one private server
2. Clinton may have sent emails from other servers to unofficial accounts of other state department employees

Lower bound for missing emails from Clinton:
Take a small weighted random sample (weighting seniority more) of top state department employees. 

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'''
Gets Congressional speech text, arranged by speaker.

Produces a csv (capitolwords.csv) with the following columns:
speaker_state,speaker_raw,speaker_first,congress,title,origin_url,number,id,volume,chamber,session,speaker_last,
pages,speaker_party,date,bills,bioguide_id,order,speaking,capitolwords_url

Uses the Sunlight foundation library: http://python-sunlight.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
'''

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'''
What does it do?
Goes through a corrupted csv sequentially and outputs rows that are clean. 
Also outputs, total n, total corrupted n
    
@author: Gaurav Sood
Run: python salvage_csv.py input_csv output_csv

'''

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"
Basic Text Classifier 		 
	- Takes a csv with a text column, and column of labels
	- Splits into train and test
	- Preprocesses text using tm/bag-of-words, 1/2-order Markov
	- Uses SVM and Lasso

@author: Gaurav Sood								 
 	
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"
Weighting by Propensity Scores
Last Edited: 5/31/2015

Task Outline:
1. Two datasets:
	dataset 1: large pop. representative sample	
	dataset 2: convenient sample
2. Create weights for dataset 2 so that its marginals are close to dataset 1 on some vars.  

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apt-get upgrade
apt-get update
sudo aptitude install emacs24
sudo aptitude install r-base
sudo aptitude install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo aptitude install libxml2-dev

apt-get install openjdk-7-*
R CMD javareconf -e

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