Academic
Peer-reviewed papers
Pre-prints
- Rohan Alexander and Monica
Alexander, 2021, ‘The Effect of Elections and Prime Ministers on
Discussion in the Australian Federal Parliament (1901—2018)’,
arXiv, 17 November, https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09299. Under review at
PSRM.
- Ke-Li Chiu and Rohan Alexander, 2021, ‘Detecting Hate Speech with
GPT-3’, arXiv, 23 March [4 November], https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12407. Under review at
EPJ Data Science.
- Annie Collins and Rohan Alexander, 2021, ‘Reproducibility of
COVID-19 pre-prints’, arXiv, 22 July, https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10724. Under review at
Scientometrics.
- Rohan Alexander, Samantha-Jo Caetano, Haoluan Chen, Michael Chong,
Annie Collins, Shirley Deng, Isaac Ehrlich, Paul Hodgetts, Yena Joo,
Marija Pejcinovska, Mariam Walaa, and Matthew Wankiewicz, 2021, ‘An
Introduction to DoSStoolkit’, arXiv, 19 May, https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09347.
- Ke-Li Chiu and Rohan Alexander, 2021, ‘On consistency scores in text
data with an implementation in R’, arXiv, 13 January, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05225.
- Paul A. Hodgetts and Rohan Alexander, 2020, ‘cesR: An R package for
the Canadian Election Study’, SocArXiv, 3 September, https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/a29h8/.
Software
- Rohan Alexander and Paul A. Hodgetts, 2021,
AustralianPoliticians
, https://rohanalexander.github.io/AustralianPoliticians/.
This R package is a series of functions that load datasets of
biographical and political information about Australian federal
politicians between 1901 and 2021. The datasets are up-to-date as of 30
November 2021.
- Paul A. Hodgetts and Rohan Alexander, 2021,
cesR
, https://hodgettsp.github.io/cesR/. This R package
provides access to the Canadian Election Study Datasets.
- Rohan Alexander and A Mahfouz, 2021,
heapsofpapers
, https://rohanalexander.github.io/heapsofpapers/. This R
package makes it easy to respectfully download heaps of papers (and
CSVs, and websites, and similar). It is essentially a wrapper around a
for loop and utils::download.file()
, but there are a bunch
of small things that make things easier compared with writing that out
each time. For instance, the package automatically slows down your
requests, lets you know where it is up to, and adjusts for papers that
you’ve already downloaded.
Presentations
Upcoming
- 17 December 2021, University of Toronto Statistics and MachIne
LEarning (SMILE) Journal Club.
- 16 December 2021, Young Irish Statisticians.
Past
- A super opinionated talk about data science, APIs, and grad school
applications
18 November 2021, University of Toronto, Undergraduate Statistical
Sciences Union Workshop. https://youtu.be/P1yvnq2Rojk
- Remarks at Trinity College
19 October 2021, University of Toronto, Trinity College High Table.
- Introduction to Andrew Gelman
17 September 2021, University of Toronto, Data Sciences Institute
launch.
- Introduction to R
22 December 2020, University of Toronto, Global Society for Genetics and
Genome Biology.
- Turning Our World Into Data
7 July 2021, Harvard Biostatistics Data Science in Action Summer
Camp.
- Forecasting Parliamentary Elections
10 December 2019, Monash University, Department of Econometrics &
Business Statistics, Melbourne.
9 December 2019, Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science
Conference, Melbourne.
2 December 2019, Australian National University, Cake for Comments,
Canberra.
20 November 2019, POP Politics Workshop, Canberra.
17 October 2018, University of Toronto, Political Behaviour Group,
Toronto.
- A Word-Count Based Classifier of Politicians in the Australian
Federal Parliament (1901–2018)
4 September 2019, European Consortium for Political Research, General
Conference, Wroclaw.
22 June 2019, European Political Science Association, Annual Conference,
Belfast.
18 June 2019, Quantitative Text Analysis Workshop, Dublin.
- The Effect of Elections and Prime Ministers on Discussion in the
Australian Federal Parliament (1901—2018)
11 January 2019, Political Methodology Specialist Group, Annual
Conference, Warwick.
11 December 2018, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
Rostock.
22 November 2018, University of Toronto, Political Behaviour Group,
Toronto.
25 October 2018, Australian National University, Research School of
Economics, Canberra.
25 October 2018, Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia,
Canberra.
24 October 2018, Australian National University, School of Politics and
International Relations, Canberra.
- Exploring Australia’s Hansard (1901–2017)
(Poster) 7-9 September, 2018 Economic History Association Meeting,
Montreal.
- A Surnames-Based Analysis of Tasmanian Social Mobility
(1803–2015)
20 May 2016, UC Berkeley, Economic History Lunch, Berkeley.
2 May 2016, Australian National University, Research School of
Economics, Canberra.