Software
Open-source tools and R packages for quantitative social science — built to make experimental design, data visualization, and archival data more accessible.
Interactive Dashboards
European Protest & Coercion Dashboard
Browse, visualize, and model Ron Francisco's European Protest & Coercion Data — the most comprehensive daily-resolution record of political contention and state repression in modern Europe. Four tabs: summary statistics, annual trends, a searchable event table, and interactive regression estimation.
Data: ronfran.ku.edu · Cite as: Francisco, R. (2000). European Protest and Coercion Data. University of Kansas.
R Packages
All packages are available on GitHub. CRAN packages include live download counts. Note that the CRAN packages have not been updated recently and may not reflect the latest functionality.
plotrr
CRAN
Functions for visual exploratory data analysis with nested and hierarchical data. Coauthored with Michael J. Nelson.
colorr
CRAN
Generates color palettes informed by color theory for use in ggplot2 and base R graphics.
validatednamesr
GitHub
A database of 600 names with 44,000+ evaluations across race, income, education, and citizenship — designed for experimental studies on race and ethnicity. Coauthored with Jae Yeon Kim, S. Michael Gaddis, John B. Holbein, Connor Guage, and William W. Marx.
Crabtree et al. (2023). Scientific Data, 10, 130.
nomine
GitHub
Classifies names by probable race/ethnicity and gender using the NamePrism and NamSor APIs. Useful for large-scale audit studies and correspondence experiments where respondent identity needs to be inferred from name data.
Using one of these tools in your research? I'd love to hear about it — bug reports, feature requests, and coauthorship inquiries welcome.