Research

• Roberts, Margaret E, Brandon M. Stewart and Richard Nielsen.  “Matching Methods for High-Dimensional Data with Applications to Text.” Copy here.

• Roberts Margaret E, Stewart Brandon M, Airoldi Edo M.  “A model of text for experimentation in the social sciences.”  Forthcoming, Journal of the American Statistical Association.  Copy here.

• Roberts, Margaret E, Stewart, Brandon, & Tingley, Dustin.  “Navigating the Local Modes of Big Data: The Case of Topic Models.” Forthcoming In Computational Social Science, New York: Cambridge University Press.  Copy here.

• Chuang J, Roberts M, Stewart B, Weiss R, Tingley D, Grimmer J, Heer J. “TopicCheck: Interactive Alignment for Assessing Topic Model Stability“. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT). 2015.

• Monroe, Burt, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts,  Maya Sen, and Betsy Sinclair.  2015.  “No! Formal Theory, Causal Inference, and Big Data Are Not Contradictory Trends in Political Science.”   PS: Political Science and Politics. 48, no 1 pg 71-41.

• Reich, Justin, Tingley, Dustin, Leder-Luis, Jetson, Roberts, Margaret E., & Stewart, Brandon M.  “Computer Assisted Reading and Discovery for Student Generated Text.”  2015. Journal of Learning Analytics. Copy here.

• Lucas, Christopher, Richard Nielsen, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart, Alex Storer, and Dustin Tingley.  2014.  “Computer assisted text analysis for comparative politics.” Political Analysis Copy here.

• Chuang J, Wilkerson JD, Weiss R, Tingley D, Stewart BM, Roberts ME, Poursabzi-Sangdeh F, Grimmer J, Findlater L, Boyd-Graber J, et al. Computer-Assisted Content Analysis: Topic Models for Exploring Multiple Subjective Interpretations. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Human-Propelled Machine Learning. 2014.

• King, Gary and Margaret E. Roberts. “How Robust Standard Errors Expose Methodological Problems They Do Not Fix.” Political Analysis 2014. copy here.

• Roberts, Margaret E, Brandon Stewart, Dustin Tingley, Chris Lucas, Jetson Leder-Luis, Bethany Albertson, Shana Gadarian, and David Rand.   “Topic models for open-ended survey responses with applications to experiments.” forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science. (2014).  Copy here.

• King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts.  “Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship: Randomized Experimentation and Participant Observation”  Science (2014). Copy here.  [press about the paper on NPR and in the WSJ

• King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts. “How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression.” American Political Science Review (2013). copy at http://j.mp/LdVXqN [press about the paper in the WSJ and in the Economist

• Roberts Margaret E, Stewart Brandon M, Tingley Dustin, Airoldi Edo M. “The Structural Topic Model and Applied Social Science.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Topic Models: Computation, Application, and Evaluation. 2013. Copy here Peer-Reviewed Conference Workshop. Selected for Oral Presentation.

Previous Work