Clare Porter is a recent graduate from University of Wisconsin – Madison where she was a senior research intern at the Epistemic Analytics lab and president of the Women in Economics student organization. She begins a position at the Rand Corporation in summer of 2022. In this conversation, Clare and Dr. David Williamson Shaffer discuss a behind-the-scenes look at the imperfect and iterative processes of QE research, as well as provide an introduction to how imperfect models are still a useful - and often essential - part of meaningful analytics.

Paper referenced:

Hansen, Zaki, Benna, Porter (2020). Epistemic Network Analysis of Reddit Comments Relating to COVID-19 Vaccine News on the r/Coronavirus Subreddit. In Wasson, B. & Zörgő, S. (eds.), Third International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography: Conference Proceedings Supplement.