About Me

I'm a research assistant professor at the University of New Mexico—a linguist and data scientist working in natural language processing and applied data science, including work with large language models. Based in Albuquerque, I write about R, NLP, large language models, and American politics. GitHub | BlueSky | LinkedIn

About This Blog

This site has taken various forms over the years, but the core remains: an archive of working examples and analysis built on specific datasets and concrete problems. Even as LLMs generate tutorials on demand, tested code on real data stays useful. All posts are fully reproducible, with cleaned datasets, working code, and visualizations. Primarily R, with Python here and there. Mostly a reference for future me.

News

An automated feed of recent AI/LLM developments. Uses LLMs to generate research queries and create summaries from article titles. Searches DuckDuckGo and scrapes user-defined blogs, then filters to the last 5 days.

Gutenberg

Explorations of the Project Gutenberg corpus. Uses LLMs to generate sentence-initial search phrases (2-4 words, pronoun-based), then searches the corpus and displays results with links to Project Gutenberg texts.