Fabio Votta📊🐧
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Are you a researcher who studies data-driven campaigning? Do you want to analyze the actual targeting criteria used by political parties to reach citizens during elections?
Introducing {metatargetr} an
#rstats
📦that interfaces with the Meta Ad Library
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Excited to share my materials for the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐑 course that I taught today (w/
@GoogleColab
) for the
@thehertieschool
Data Science Summer School :
🎨 Slides
✍️ Script: R basics
✍️ Script: tidyverse
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This semester I have switched to teaching my
#rstats
course in Rstudio Cloud. It works like a charm and the students enjoy it too. There is no endless debugging individual computers & students can get right to the fun since I can make sure everything works in advance.
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Just voted for the first time in the Netherlands! As non-citizen you can vote in local elections which is awesome :)
#gemeenteraadsverkiezing2022
#verkiezingen
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So my Ubuntu is not booting anymore since installing the latest update and it's now telling me to sacrifice a child. I am not sure whether I want to google this message to find out what's wrong.
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@GeneralThoughts
@annieb0823
@MittRomney
Imagine unironically thinking this is such a good point that you went to Paint to create this.
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WOW. There is a POSITIVE correlation between confirmed COVID-19 cases and the total number of shark attacks (provoked and unprovoked!) since 1900. Don't ask me about the R^2 though because I consider the NHST to be tyrannical.
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I asked DALL-E to depict a highly statistically significant relationship. And then 3x MORE!
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@UAWeapons
*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. Well it all started with..
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Everyone on my Twitter feed right now (including me)
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
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Had an amazing defense today. I have much to say but for now: thank you to every single person that accompanied me along this way and making me the person that I am today. I am incredibly humbled, happy and relieved.
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This took me roughly 5 h of merging
@EurobarometerEU
data. Plot shows % of people mentioning immigration as one of the most important issues that their country faces. Quite surprisingly, there's only a handful of countries where a notable pop. thinks this way.
#socsci
#dataviz
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After 1.5 years of applying for PhDs I have finally accepted a dream position! I will be starting my PhD at the University of Amsterdam this fall studying the effects of microtargeted political ads supervised by
@claesdevreese
,
@nhelberger
&
@TomDobber
. SO EXCITED.
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Check out who officially earned his Master degree with distinction. When my parents immigrated to Germany they had nothing but the clothes they wore and a little luggage. My supersmart mother was never able to get an education & tells me how proud she is that her son got so far.
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I found a really cool tool for drawing diagrams! It's called {nomnoml}. It's super easy and intuitive to use, looks pretty, has an
#rstats
package by
@javierluraschi
() and even a live code editor here: .
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Ladies, if he
+ demands money to spend time with you
+ can't satisfy your basic needs
+ hasn't really changed in years
+ writes unreadable texts
He's not your man. He's SPSS.
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Want to get staRted with creating
#rstats
packages? Here are my slides for the
@datenguide
-Project for
@CorrelAid
.
Be advised though:
There will be GIFs and memes inside!
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We finally have the complete data on how Dutch political parties spent their money on digital ads (includes Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Snapchat) leading up to the nationwide provincial elections on March 15th. As promised, here are the numbers 🧵
#PS2023
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✨DELIGHTED✨ to announce that I will be staying in beautiful in Amsterdam at
@UvA_Amsterdam
as a postdoc researcher with
@ALGOSOC_
,
@nhelberger
,
@claesdevreese
, and
@theoaraujo
. Watch this space, as we're pushing boundaries in the study of algorithms, media, and public opinion📊
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Happy to share with y'all my materials for the "Quantitative Text Analysis in R" workshop I taught at
@warwickuni
@wqstep
.
It covers basics (string manipulation, pre-processing) & includes tutorials on part-of-speech tagging as well as dictionary methods.
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Pictured: PhD candidate and supervisor team after they were convinced to try the fancy new methodology nobody knows how to properly implement, 2021, colorized
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Lived in Amsterdam for several years but never took the time to explore the ouskirts. This is the Amsterdamse Bos (English: Amsterdam Forest). 20 Minutes from city centre. Beautiful.
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@greg_doucette
This person also has their hands up the entire time and they get beaten nonetheless. What kind of police is this? There is zero reason to slash at people who have their hands up.
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Es war mir eine Freude und Ehre mit
@zdfmagazin
und
@WhoTargetsMe
zusammenzuarbeiten, um aufzudecken wie microtargeting im
#btw21
Wahlkampf von Parteien genutzt wurde. Mehr zu unserer Rechereche findet ihr auf:
👇👇👇
#targetleaks
#Bundestagswahl
🎯Target🎯
Facebook-User:innen, die "ZDF" und "Füße" als Interesse angegeben haben, hier klicken:
#TargetLeaks
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I asked DALL-E to create the perfect Dutch prime minister and then make it more perfect and Dutch
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It's interesting to see how close the vote margins in 2020 track the ones in 2016. Almost a perfect correlation. But the differences matter.
#USElections
#us2020election
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At
@COMPTEXTCONF
,
@JohannesBGruber
showcases {rollama}, an R package enabling local use of LLMs—fully reproducible and no need to expose data. Best thing is: EASY to set up.
I am certainly convinced: if we use LLMs, going local should be encouraged in social science research.
Using ChatGPT or GPT-4 to annotate your data is cool. But have you ever tried open source models? It's suprisingly easy, as I show in this new video!
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Gave a short and fun presentation about multilevel modeling in
#rstats
for my PhDs at
@UvA_ASCoR
today :)
If you fancy a meme and gif-ridden presentation in {xaringan} about multilevel modeling, check it out:
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The
#rstats
community consists of two things:
1. The nicest people
2. Puns including the letter R
I did this exclusively for the pun. I present the "hex" sticker for my
#rstats
cast-spells-with-shiny demo app. In case you were wondering if I am a serious data scientist, here's your answer.
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What a historic moment. This is the second time in history that Rasputin got the Czar and his family removed.
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Always wanted to learn R? Tried but got frustrated?😓
I know that feeling.. because I was once in that position too! But it needn't be this way! 🙅♂️
That's why I'm SO excited to announce my fun, no-prior experience needed "Intro to R" course for the data science summer school!🥳📢
Super excited to announce that we (
@thehertieschool
and
@scriptsberlin
) will hold Data Science Summer School this July! More information is here and coming: If you have any Q, feel free to ping me here or via email.
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Got a little scared reading all the news about
#CoronavirusOutbreak
so naturally I made an
#rstats
meme to calm myself.
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Whatever happiness I felt it pales in comparison to what my parents felt when they saw their son receive a doctorate degree. My parents came to Germany to seek a better life with little more than the clothes they wore. I feel so humbled to have been able to fill them with joy.
Had an amazing defense today. I have much to say but for now: thank you to every single person that accompanied me along this way and making me the person that I am today. I am incredibly humbled, happy and relieved.
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Oh you love R? Name their first album
Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of R 1.0.0.
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@spinosauruskin
When the Alt Right argues about who the "real whites" are. It reminds me of oppression olympics.
I call it White Wimbledon.
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📢PUBLICATION ALERT🧵
Our new research in
@journalqd
maps the global landscape of political microtargeting across 95 countries during 113 elections.
@meinungfuehrer
,
@MadsHoveThy
,
@TomDobber
,
@nhelberger
,
@claesdevreese
, and I analyze 2.5M FB & IG ads that ran from 2020 to 2022.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad
When the Alt Right argues about who the "real whites" are. It reminds me of oppression olympics.
I call it White Wimbledon.
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WOW. There is a POSITIVE correlation between confirmed COVID-19 cases and the total number of shark attacks (provoked and unprovoked!) since 1900. Don't ask me about the R^2 though because I consider the NHST to be tyrannical.
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How did I only find out about this now? 😱 This is REALLY awesome.
The package ggpmisc by
@pedro_aphalo
has very useful
#ggplot
geom and stat functions.
I am gonna use the heck out of geom_table. 🧨
Vignette:
#rstats
#dataviz
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Check out who is on his way to defend his Master thesis in an hour.
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WELP!😅 I am extremely thrilled and honored to have received one of the top paper awards along with my supervisors (
@TomDobber
,
@nhelberger
, and
@claesdevreese
) and
@Ben_Guinaudeau
. Very grateful for this recognition (and a bit overwhelmed)!
Working with
@favstats
is 🔥
Hugely proud of Fabio
@UvA_ASCoR
leading this paper on algorithmic microtargeting w
@TomDobber
@nhelberger
@Ben_Guinaudeau
& 🙋
@poli_com
#polcomm
#ica23
top paper award 🏅 👏🏽
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Guess who just passed his Master thesis defense with a 1.0 🐧
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Want to create memes? Want to create memes in R? Want to share them directly to Twitter and ensure your hilariousness enjoys maximum visibility? With the help of the memer package, you can now do all of these things!
#rstats
#rstatsmemes
@rstatsmemes
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So I am not sure what's going on with my data but I made this squishy tentacle boi so I got that going for me which is nice.
#rstats
@accidental__aRt
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My meme page got suspended. Elon Musk's X lets fascists free reign on this platform but bans a meme page about a statistical programming language.
#Priorities
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Me: "I am going to study politics because I want to better understand our societies and help improve them!"
Me, 6 years later:
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🔍Interested in the (micro)targeting strategies of political parties? 🎯 Together with
@WhoTargetsMe
I created a series of dashboards to shed light on how political campaigns use Meta and Google to target citizens during elections. Here is a list of them:
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we're all mad but secretly we wish to have this level of confidence about the analyses we produce
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By delegitimizing mail-in ballots Trump is shooting himself in the foot. According to the latest
@nytimes
data, +54m voted absentee in this election. 24m (44%) of those votes were cast for Trump. Are only mail-in votes cast for his opponent fraudulent? /1
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I used
#rstats
to further illustrate the indictments per president. I plan to update the graph as new data comes in.
People keep talking about how this is unprecedented, but on average, American presidents are indicted 1.54 times per president.
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Three out of the four biggest winners barely spent any money on (targeted) Meta and Google ads. The 4th one (GL-PvdA) spent the most by far.
This should caution us to overestimate the effects of online political
#microtargeting
. You can't just spend your way to victory.
#TK2023
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📢 Just in time for the European Parliament election!🇪🇺
Enjoy the new
@WhoTargetsMe
dashboard I created to reveal who is advertising and targeting which audiences on Meta platforms.
Get the inside scoop on political strategies in the EU! 🇪🇺🗳️
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This Calvinist political party in the Netherlands has a script on its website that makes it impossible to look up anything on a Sunday (all links auto-default to this page).
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@GoodwinMJ
@CommSenseUK
Imagine calling yourself an academic & trying to infer that from these incredibly loaded questions. It also polls perceptions of Labour vs. Conservatives, rather than what their voters actually believe. I tried to look up how the sample was collected by
@JLPartnersPolls
, no info.
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🚨UPDATE for {metatargetr}
#rstats
📦
If u want to analyze content of political ads u will find that Meta does not let you download images or videos.
@philipp_mendoza
& I got you covered! We created a function to download media & even handle duplicates to save space on ur drive
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@EugeneWasHere
@ContraPoints
Having said that, I personally think she addresses these points well here. I strongly believe nobody should be beyond criticism but the sheer hatred she received for it was simply too much and completely disproportionate. We have to do better than that.
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(1/n) How does collinearity affect linear regressions? Well, interesting stuff happens. A thread.
Code:
#rstats
#dataviz
#simulation
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Very excited to have presented our research on the Alt-Right with
@systatz
at
#voxpolconf2018
. Received some great suggestions by
@miriam_fs
. to improve our analysis, which is definitely something we'll implement.
You can check out our slides here:
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I was feeling the chaos energy of the non-piped approach so I decided to create this.
#rstats
@rstatsmemes
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OMG there is a vaporwave package for ggplot2 called {vapoRwave}. This is the best thing ever.
#rstats
@rstatsmemes
@MattOldach
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Fresh meme for the people who care about the fastest readers of delimited files
#rstats
@rstatsmemes
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Twitter was always exemplary in its data access for researchers. Under Elon Musk, that is no longer the case.
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
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I started my PhD one and a half years ago and today I met one of my supervisors for the first time in person.
#JustCovidThings
#phdlife
#phdchat
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Printed my dissertation to mail it to my designer :) stay tuned for a beautiful and weird thesis design! :)
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As some of you may know I am on track to complete my dissertation this year (🙃) which means I will be on the job market starting this Fall!
If you know any cool Postdoc/Assisstant professor/data science positions feel free to let me know :)
Updated CV:
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Niemand hat danach gefragt aber das gibt es jetzt trotzdem: ein
#rstats
package dass Deutsch ins Schwäbische übersetzt.
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🥳Got accepted to present our research on political TikTok at the Politics and Computational Social Science Conference! Come check it out if you are also attending! :)
#pacss2020
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