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| I am a [http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/ci.elliscalimortenson_ci.detail PhD Candidate in Political Science and Public Policy] at the University of Michigan. I have an undergraduate degree in economics and a master's degree in public policy. | | I am a [http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/ci.elliscalimortenson_ci.detail PhD Candidate in Political Science and Public Policy] at the University of Michigan. I have an undergraduate degree in economics and a master's degree in public policy. |
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| == Interests ==
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| As a policy student and former practitioner, all of my interests are applied:
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| '''Topics'''<br>
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| International Relations, specifically quantitative conflict studies<br>
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| Civilian casualties in war (conflict epidemiology)<br>
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| Military strategy and tactics, esp. counterinsurgency<br>
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| Homeland security, critical infrastructure protection and emergency management<br>
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| Prediction markets<br>
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| Applied ethics<br>
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| '''Tools'''<br>
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| Applied statistics and econometrics<br>
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| Design of experiments<br>
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| Behavioral economics<br>
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| Crowdsourcing<br>
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| Survey research<br>
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| Quantification of historical archives<br>
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| Social network analysis (including sociological approaches)<br>
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| Topic modeling <-New to me, would love help with this<br>
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| '''Pie in the Sky'''<br>
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| Nobody knows how many people actually die in any given war. My dream project is to combine survey research in Afghanistan and Pakistan with epidemiological models to develop more accurate, unclassified tools for determining how many civilians are killed by modern munitions. This idea originally came from observing the use of Hellfire missiles from drone platforms, which seem to conveniently kill terrorists [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEUQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnoagendapdfs.org%2FNA-162-2010-01-03%2FNA-162-2010-01-03-Letter%2Fsecuritycrank.wordpress.com_2009_12_07_winning-the-war-30-taliban-at-a-time_-Letter.pdf&ei=G6T1TaWgIpDksQPVvonICw&usg=AFQjCNGGTXZ2w4CdftWtjm5soFg-5LCPnw 30 at a time]. PDF warning.<br>
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| It should come as no surprise that this project probably is not going to happen anytime soon.
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| == Expertise ==
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| It sounds pedestrian, but my professional background working a) on a political campaign; b) as a political appointee in an executive office and; c) for the military in the homeland security field have come in handy just as often as my school-based training. That said, I can do some stuff:<br>
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| Econometrics<br>
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| Survey research methods<br>
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| Program evaluation<br>
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| Prediction markets<br>
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| Experimental political science<br>
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| Game theory<br>
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| I heart Stata, but I also use R
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| == What I hope to get out of CSSS ==
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| As I am in a joint program myself, I get a lot out of talking to people in other disciplines and seeing where we can forge partnerships and find learning opportunities. I am listening closely to everything with the thought of how I can use this in an applied public policy context.
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| == Projects ==
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| I heard about [http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/ Stats Monkey] at a journalism conference and think it is really cool with many potential applications other than sports. Unfortunately, the people involved have not published anything about it. If anyone knows anything about it, how it works, and how to use it in other contexts, I would love to talk.
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