Software

ChangeOrder: A strategic game that helps government agencies learn how to avoid vendor lock-in, write smarter contracts, and negotiate more effectively. Developed based on actual contracts.

PracticeTalk: A simple, lightweight speech synthesis web app that turns your talk script into an audio file, allowing you to check its flow and narrative.

ClassKit: A lightweight suite of browser-based classroom utilities. Upload a roster, choose your options, and generate reproducible student samples for cold calling, breakout groups, preference-based project teams, and peer-review matches. No installation required.

MapAgora

• Summary: An R package for retrieving and processing tax records (e.g., IRS Form 990), website data, and social media handles for U.S. nonprofit organizations. Built to support large-scale analysis of civic infrastructure.
• Use case: Used in “MapAgora, Civic Opportunity Datasets for the Study of American Local Politics and Public Policy”, Nature: Scientific Data (2025), and “The Unequal Landscape of Civic Opportunity in America”, Nature Human Behaviour (2023), with Milan de Vries and Hahrie Han
• Collaborator: Milan de Vries

autotextclassifier

• Summary: An R package for automated text classification using the tidymodels framework. Supports supervised learning pipelines with minimal setup for civic tech and policy research applications.
• Use case: Used in “MapAgora, Civic Opportunity Datasets for the Study of American Local Politics and Public Policy”, Nature: Scientific Data (2025), and “The Unequal Landscape of Civic Opportunity in America”, Nature Human Behaviour (2023), with Milan de Vries and Hahrie Han
• Collaborator: Milan de Vries

validatednamesr

• Summary: An R package for accessing and analyzing the validated names dataset used in race and ethnicity experiments. Includes utilities for name filtering, trait inspection, and integration with survey tools.
• Use case: Featured in “Validated Names for Experimental Studies on Ethnicity and Race”, Nature: Scientific Data (2023), with by Charles Crabtree, S. Michael Gaddis, John B. Holbein, Cameron Guage, and William Marx.
• Collaborator: Charles Crabtree

tidytweetjson

• Summary: An R package that transforms raw Twitter JSON files into clean, analysis-ready datasets. Useful for studying political discourse, social movements, and real-time reactions to events.
• Use case: Used in “COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes”, Perspectives on Politics (2021), with Nathan Chan and Vivien Leung.

tidyethnicnews

• Summary: An R package for scraping, cleaning, and organizing ethnic newspaper articles from the Ethnic NewsWatch database. Designed to support media analysis and political communication research.
• Use case: Used in “Integrating Human and Machine Coding to Measure Political Issues in Ethnic Newspaper Articles”, Journal of Computational Social Science (2021)