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4/13/2026

Welcome! Here you’ll find posts about my teaching, research, data science, and academic life.

How does rural matter for election administration?

rural-notes
election-administration
measurement
rurality

My ESRA 2026 poster: rural-urban gaps in election administration are mostly cross-state and measure-dependent. For one outcome, the rural effect flips sign depending on which rurality scheme you use.

6/2/2026
5 min

What county election websites (unevenly) tell voters

rural-notes
election-administration
measurement
digital-divide
rurality

Uneven Access (with Will McLean): a national audit of county election websites. Coverage is low and bimodal, state context explains half the variation, and the rural deficit runs mostly through county population scale rather than rurality itself.

6/2/2026
7 min

Introducing rurality.app: A Field Guide to Rural America

rural-notes
rurality
app
tools

rurality.app is a browser-based field guide to the U.S. rural–urban classification data behind the rurality R package. Launch post for the Rural Notes series.

5/8/2026
6 min

Introducing slxr: A tool for implementing Spatial-X models

R
package
spatial
methodology
SLX

A new R package for Spatial-X (SLX) regression models—variable-specific weights matrices, tidy effects decomposition, and no matrix inversion required.

4/22/2026
9 min

Introducing rurality: a one-stop R package for U.S. rural–urban data

R
package
rural
methodology
rurality

A new R package that puts USDA’s Rural–Urban Continuum Codes, Commuting Areas, and a composite rurality score.

4/13/2026
4 min

Building a Programmatic Academic CV with Quarto and Typst

quarto
typst
tutorial
academic

This is a walkthrough of building a data-driven academic CV using Quarto and Typst. It includes publications pulled automatically from a BibTeX file, custom styling, and a clean design that rivals LaTeX or InDesign.

4/5/2026
9 min

Asking for a Letter of Recommendation

teaching
advice

So You Need a Letter? I am often asked to write letters of recommendation for students. This is an important part of our jobs as professors, but I often find myself struggling to write the letter I think the student needs because my experience with them is either limited to a single course or otherwise negative.

6/22/2023
2 min

New publication on spatial-x models

research
publications

Along with Guy D. Whitten and Laron K. Williams, we have a forthcoming article in the Journal of Politics.

6/22/2023
1 min

New publication on the interpretation of spatial models

research
spatial

I have a new publication on the interpretation of spatial models.

3/6/2021
1 min

Doing an Independent Study with Dr. Wimpy

teaching
advice

So you need an independent study? I am often approached by students who want to complete an independent study with me. In most cases, they ‘want’ to do this because they ‘need’ a certain amount of credit for a given sub-field to graduate.

3/18/2020
3 min

Best practices for virtual meetings

teaching
advice

This post provides best practices for virtual meetings and seminars in the event that they are necessary

3/17/2020
12 min
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