@PatrickTBrandt

Ph.D. Political Methodologist = data miner of politics; foodie, commenter on #CFB. Professor of Political Science. #OEDA #BigData

 Near Dallas, TX, mostly.
utdallas.edu/~pbrandt
Joined June 2013
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Political Analysis@polanalysisFeb 3
Currently in FirstView: In “Extractive versus Generative Language Models for Political Conflict Text Classification,” @PatrickTBrandt, S. Alsarra, @vjdorazio, @DagmarHeintze, L.Khan, S.Meher, J.Osorio, & M.Sianan review their ConfliBERT model and benchmark it against other LLMs.
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#OpenAccess from @polanalysis - Extractive versus Generative Language Models for Political Conflict Text Classification - cup.org/49EktDB - @PatrickTBrandt, S.Alsarra, Vito D’Orazio, @DagmarHeintze, L.Khan, S.Meher, J.Osorio & M.Sianan #FirstView
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ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification - Shreyas Meher, Patrick T. Brandt, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification -...

We present ConflLlama, demonstrating how efficient fine-tuning of large language models can advance automated classification tasks in political science research...

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APSA workshops, including one on LLM and event data and ConfliBERT connect.apsanet.org/vrm2025/…

Research Group Descriptions

This year's Virtual Research Meeting feature a range of Research Group Workshops on various topics. These workshops are non-traditional virtual sessions designed to foster networking,…

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Deep ironies... nytimes.com/2025/01/26/world…

Colombia Agrees to Accept Deportation Flights After Trump Threatens Tariffs (Published 2025)

The country’s leader, Gustavo Petro, backed down after a clash with President Trump, which started when Mr. Petro turned back U.S. military planes carrying deportees.

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Patrick Brandt retweeted
Pete Sampson
@PeteSampson_10 Jan 2025
Still don’t understand how Jeremiyah Love did this.
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Associate Deans@ass_deans21 Dec 2024
In this holiday season, I want to share this reminder: Be grateful you still have a job and that your department hasn’t been merged with philosophy yet. Oh sorry, make that sociology, we killed the philosophy department as a gift to the provost last Christmas.
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arxiv.org/abs/2412.15060 #OEDA #EventData

ConfliBERT: A Language Model for Political Conflict

Conflict scholars have used rule-based approaches to extract information about political violence from news reports and texts. Recent Natural Language Processing developments move beyond rigid...

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When fine-tuned, results show that ConfliBERT has superior performance ... over other large language models (LLM) like Google's Gemma 2 (9B), Meta's Llama 3.1 (7B), and Alibaba's Qwen 2.5 (14B) ... It is also hundreds of times faster than these more generalist LLMs.
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📚🚨 I posted 11 new chapters of my upcoming book! Model to Meaning: How to Interpret Statistical Results with #marginaleffects for #RStats and Python. These are early drafts and I really need your feedback! Errors, content requests, improvements, etc. marginaleffects.com
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The New Yorker
@NewYorker20 Oct 2024
A cartoon by Dabin Han. #NewYorkerCartoons newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ee…
A child in their bed says to their father, “Please, Daddy, one more Twitter thread analyzing the most recent polling data, plus thirty minutes of additional scrolling through the replies on why polling data is skewed and inaccurate.”

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Unbiased Ev
@DoubleVodkaDon19 Oct 2024
I don’t usually get political but if the government really had our children’s best interest at heart they would stop airing Michigan football games on national television. No child deserves to be witness to this filth.
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⭕️SU V!Ds
@OSUViDs19 Oct 2024
Rent is Due in 42 Days. #GoBucks🌰
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Ryan Day will be coaching the Shanghai sharks next season
Walk-On Redshirts
@walkonredshirts19 Oct 2024
What if Oregon, Penn State and Indiana are all 12-0
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Fully in support of Dr Pepper, Modelo, Nissan, etc pre buying all the CFB ads for the 2028 season right now.
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Umm, @OhioStateFB needs to note that the school up north is not gonna be ranked....
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Winning at software naming for 2024 marktechpost.com/2024/10/14/…

Stanford Researchers Propose LoLCATS: A Cutting Edge AI Method for Efficient LLM Linearization

Stanford Researchers Propose LoLCATS: A Cutting Edge AI Method for Efficient LLM Linearization

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Records in last 13 games 🤷🏻‍♂️ Mack Brown 5-8 Sonny Dykes 5-8 Hugh Freeze 5-8 Lance Leipold 5-8 Billy Napier 5-8 Lincoln Riley 5-8 Deion Sanders 5-8 Scott Satterfield 5-8 Mark Stoops 5-8
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October 11, 2008: Michigan loses a tight one to Toledo 13-10 in Ann Arbor to fall to 2-4 on the season.
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