Tyler Simko

I study American local politics & public services.

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@jkertzer @umichpolisci @jdbk Thank you @jkertzer!! I hope I can be even half the advocate for grad students that you have been for us. 🙏

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@CarolineLindey Thank you so much, @CarolineLindey!! I so appreciate it. Can’t wait to see you soon in A2. 🫡 Of course please feel free to DM or email anytime before that if I can be helpful!!

[Justin de Benedictis-Kessner @jdbk]

Proud of newly-minted Dr. Tyler Simko, who just successfully defended his dissertation, “Geographic Policy Evaluation in US State and Local Politics” — Hooray, @tylersimko!

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

New Jersey’s “county line” ballot design distorts voter choice by giving party-preferred candidates privileged positions on the ballot. @ProfNickStephan and I have an Op-Ed today @NJSpotlightNews arguing that voters should support eliminating the system: https://t.co/2Vmaj34xT3

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

Like the #NationalChampionship, I am also headed to the University of Michigan! Incredibly excited to start as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at @UMich.

I’m so grateful to my friends, colleagues, and advisors who made this and all of our work possible. 〽️

[Michigan Football @UMichFootball]

🟡 Raining maize and blue 🔵

#GoBlue

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@KevinTMorris Have gone down a similar rabbit hole before for a project on teachers: haven’t seen many ages (though some state lawsuits on whether you can FOIA them). But some have name, location, and retirement date. I’ve collected some before, feel free to DM / email, love to talk more.

[Soubhik Barari @SoubhikBarari]

@tylersimko and I are excited to announce a new version of 🏠LocalView🏙️ updated with meetings until September 2023. Additionally, we've built a dashboard on our site so you can now search for / visualize keyword trends in public meetings.

Check it out!
https://t.co/mr8mJVGqZb

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@KevinTMorris I’ve started defining a few common objects I put in every local project .Rprofile, which makes them available as global variables. Election dates, FIPS codes, etc. Super convenient!!

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@ArunFrey @APSAtweets @SoubhikBarari Thank you!! Yes, absolutely remember (and still thankful for) your very kind comments on our poster. Hope it will be useful for your work.

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@cbarrie @ArunFrey @APSAtweets @SoubhikBarari Amazing, please share when you do! Would love to see. We’d have officially come full circle on LocalView — version 0.01 started several years ago as a course project!

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@FeliciaArriaga oh my gosh this sounds awesome, please share how it goes if you don’t mind! I’d love to hear your experience using it in class.

[Soubhik Barari @SoubhikBarari]

🚨📄 out now in @nature @ScientificData with @tylersimko:

https://t.co/R5wDlCyUUM

We introduce LocalView: a comprehensive dataset of over 100,000 real-time U.S. local government public meeting videos from 1,000+ localities (and counting). 🧵 1/5

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@matt_blackwell @shirokuriwaki You could also edit and host on a Colab notebook — they scale really well for small / mid-sized analysis because students make a copy of an R-enabled jupyter notebook to their own gmail account. I’m using it now for ~100 person course with no issues. Happy to share examples.

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@sjccorn @beckyj1 @HarvardUP @RGGonzales1 @InequalityHKS @kenalyass @LeahEGose yes shared with my students! Looks like a really great opportunity. Would love to meet / talk at some point @sjccorn !!

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@matt_blackwell Ahh very cool - thanks! For really tricky ones, testthat::compare() will do something similar and show where mismatches happened. Can be useful for hint error messages.

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@Isaac_es_Felix Please do! I’d be happy to hear from you anytime.

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@Isaac_es_Felix I just finished my first year, and I’d be happy to help in any way (talk more, look over application materials, answer questions, etc). Feel free to reach out and good luck!!

[Tyler Simko @tylersimko]

@Isaac_es_Felix I’ll echo what others have said about not putting all your eggs in one basket. Look out for fee waivers (deadlines were often earlier than I thought) and apply to at least a few schools (some visits might pleasantly surprise you!).

[Jorge E. Diaz @SuptJDiaz]

Due to expected severe weather conditions, South Amboy Public Schools will be closed Thursday, January 4, 2018. Please stay warm and be safe! #SASupt