Genoud

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, a member of the core faculty at the Network Science Institute, and a core faculty member of the NULAB for Text, Maps and Networks. My research examines how political opinions form and change as a result of discussion, deliberation and argument in domains such as legislatur... es, campaigns, social media, and the judiciary, using techniques from machine learning, computational text analysis, and network analysis. "DebateVis: Visualizing Political Debates for Non-Expert Users." IEEE VIS Short Papers 2020. (with South, L., Schwab, M., Wang, L., Wihbey, J., & Borkin, M.) Political debates provide an important opportunity for voters to observe candidate behavior, learn about issues, and make voting decisions. However, debates are generally broadcast late at night and last more than ninety minutes, so watching debates live can be inconvenient, if not impossible, for many potential viewers. Even voters who do watch debates may find themselves overwhelmed by a deluge of information in a substantive, issue-driven debate. Media outlets produce short summaries of debates, but these are not always effective as a method of deeply comprehending the policies candidates propose or the debate techniques they employ. In this paper we contribute reflections and results of an 18-month design study through an interdisciplinary collaboration with journalism and political science researchers. We characterize task and data abstractions for visualizing political debate transcripts for the casual user, and present a novel tool (DEBATEVIS) to help non-expert users explore and analyze debate transcripts. "Educational Accountability and State ESSA Plans," Education Policy 2020. (with John Portz) This paper examines different state approaches to educational accountability in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act. Cluster analysis reveals three groups of states with similar indicator weights and rating systems, and principal component analysis identifies two ...Read More