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What Did Manifest Destiny Look Like?

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

“Manifest Destiny was the belief widely held by Americans in the 19th century that the United States was destined to expand across the continent. The concept, born out of ‘a sense of mission to redeem the Old World’, was enabled by … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan Casualties Over Time and Space

Posted on October 22, 2012 by

The data comes from the Defense Casualty Analysis System for Operation Enduring Freedom. Here it is over time: Notice the seasonality of deaths in Afghanistan, likely due to the harsh winters. Here is the same data plotted across space (service … Continue reading →

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Eliminate File Redundancy with Ruby

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

Say you have a file with many repeated, unnecessary lines that you want to remove. For safety’s sake, you would rather make an abbreviated copy of the file rather than replace it. Ruby makes this a cinch. You just iterate … Continue reading →

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What Huntington Forgot

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

Earlier this week I complained on Twitter about having to read Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” for the umpteenth time when virtually every serious IR scholar knows he’s wrong. I really despise the “wrong but influential” line of argument, because it so … Continue reading →

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Meta-Blogging, Pt. 2: Weekly Trend in Tweets, Likes, and Comments

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

This post begins to describe the blog data collected (separately) by Anton Strezhnev and myself. One of the first things I did was to set the date variable in R format so that I could do some exploration. library(foreign) # … Continue reading →

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Meta-Blogging, Pt. 1: Introduction

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

About a month ago, Joshua Tucker posted some hypotheses about the number of tweets and likes that posts get on The Monkey Cage. Anton Strezhnev took up his question, building a screen scraper in Python and making all of his data public. … Continue reading →

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