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2018
Student Poster: Michelle Torres (Washington University in St. Louis)
Faculty Poster: John Jackson (University of Michigan)
Selection committee: John Londregan (Chair, Princeton), Adam Berinsky (MIT), Dan Hopkins (University of Pennsylvania), Erin Hartman (University of California, Los Angeles), Melissa Sands (Harvard), Benjamin Lauderdale (LSE)
Citation:
It is my pleasure to report that the 2017 polmeth poster committee has awarded thestudent prize to Michelle Torres of Washington University for her poster entitled "Measuring Visual Messages: Political Violence and Computer Vision." while the faculty poster award went to John Jackson of the University of Michigan for his poster entitled "Correct Standard Errors with Clustered Data." The Torres research project consists of analyzing images of political violence during the Furguson disturbances by reducing them to proto-images and then using a supervised ``bag of proto-images" techniques that adapts and extends methods used in text analysis. With this work Torres joins a group of young scholars who are opening a new research frontier in political science. The Jackson research project sheds light on the stochastic properties of a widely used estimator, providing an important corrective to the precision estimates in common use.