Recent & Upcoming Talks

2023

Estimating mass sentiment from noisy, biased signals: recent Australian elections and the Voice referendum

I deploy a class of hidden Markov models to recover the trajectory of latent public opinion from a series of noisy and possibly biased …

Aug 25, 2023 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM Monash University Business School

Simon Jackman

Estimating mass sentiment from noisy, biased signals: recent Australian elections and the Voice referendum

2022

Owning the agenda: using machine learning to observe the dynamics of issue salience over an election campaign.

We analyse a large corpus of 325,000 social media posts from parties, candidates, interest groups and media organisations generated …

Dec 13, 2022 2:00 PM — 3:50 PM Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University

Simon Jackman, Andrea Carson

Owning the agenda: using machine learning to observe the dynamics of issue salience over an election campaign.

The 2022 Australian Federal Election: Results from the Australian Election Study

No slides yet. Contact me if you would like to attend in person, as this event is being held in a “after security” area of Parliament House.

Dec 5, 2022 9:30 AM — 11:00 AM Room TBA, Parliament House

Sarah Cameron, Ian McAllister, Simon Jackman, Jill Sheppard

The 2022 Australian Federal Election: Results from the Australian Election Study