Jay Lee

Researcher for @Sightline. Reedie ('19). In general I do data things (#rstats), in general these are about governments.

[Jay Lee @jaylee_tx]

Signing off in the coming days regardless of what happens, ah well. I’m [email protected] professionally and [email protected] otherwise, plus @jay.lee.tx on Instagram.

[Votebeat @VotebeatUS]

Election transparency efforts in Texas have ended up undermining a key aspect of election security: the secret ballot.

State law gives the public wide access to a trove of records that, in some cases, can be used to figure out exactly how someone voted.
https://t.co/FLnuyvzw21

[Sightline Institute @Sightline]

When you make a gift to Sightline, you are investing in our mission to make Cascadia a global model of sustainability. And part of that goal is lunch-related. @andersem

Consider supporting our work at https://t.co/vIePCCyRCD.

[Jay Lee @jaylee_tx]

Lord help me I'm greatersagegrouseposting again

[Jay Lee @jaylee_tx]

Obligatory Greater Sage-grouse memes

[Catie Gould @Citizen_Cate]

Come work with me!!!

[Jay Lee @jaylee_tx]

@andersem I think you're also right on the timeline/path-dependency/liberal consensus of it all, but I don't have any meaningful insights there.

[Jay Lee @jaylee_tx]

@andersem Text responses on race and ethnicity need more bins, have more "large enough" bins to disaggregate, and are really tough to categorize into those bins. The census has a complicated enough job on this already in questions 8 and 9 of the form that everybody fills out.

[Chris Warshaw @cwarshaw]

Big news out of NY for elections scholars.

[Sightline Institute @Sightline]

Oh, hi. Today we’re kicking off our Spring fundraising drive with the goal of raising $35,000. If you think the work that we do here is important, you can support us here: https://t.co/5A0lsvqt7c

[Jay Lee @jaylee_tx]

@AdaElections (Boise, ID) now releases a scanned image of every ballot cast in their elections. I think this is bad for voter privacy reasons (folks write their names on their ballots more than you'd think), but it also lets us find the DBZ fans with surgical precision!

[Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach]

You can see in videos how excited police are on assignments where they get to feel powerful while having no risk of injury, and how unexcited they are on assignments that involve stopping or solving crime

[BO @bo_austin_]

‘the protests are robbing my Columbia students of listening to John Cage’s 4’33, the piece of music that is explicitly designed to force you to listen to…what’s around you.’ absolutely perfect

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Me: "I'd like to copy and paste from this pdf please"

Adobe Acrobat: "no worries, I took the liberty of stacking each word on top of each other in a vertical column, adding mysterious symbols, and removing every instance of the letter 't'"

[emma @msmegalodon]

dropout is consistently making a case for itself as the american answer to those british panel comedy shows where a bunch of comedians just kind of hang out

[Jay Lee @jaylee_tx]

Okay, maybe I'm here intermittently

[Sightline Institute @Sightline]

Voters across Cascadia are upgrading their electoral systems through the implementation of election reforms, after years of Sightline support and guidance. Give today to support Sightline's critical democracy reform work: https://t.co/azVPg8zFF2

[Dylan Freedman @dylfreed]

Update: Crosswalker is now open source! It's a general purpose tool for joining columns of text data that don't match perfectly.

🕸️ runs in the browser
🔒 keeps your data entirely local
😌 auto-saves your progress

https://t.co/5KTkSxsaxc