Lukas Birkenmaier

Lukas Birkenmaier

Political Data Scientist

Software

As a computational social scientist, developing tools and software is part of my daily work. Below, you will find some of my most recent project.

ValiTex

Project Status: Active -- The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. DOI Lifecycle: stable R-CMD-check

One of my recent projects is the development of the ValiTex framework for validating text-based measures of social science constructs (for the working paper, see Birkenmaier et al. (2023)). The frameworks comes with a shiny app, which is also implemented in an R-Package.

interface checklist Use Cases

The latest development version on GitHub can be installed with:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("lukasbirki/ValiTex")

You can then run the app locally by running ValiTex::run_app()

CitiesRopen

Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. Lifecycle: experimental

This Rpackages allows you to directly inspect and download data from the Open Data Portal of Constance. It can be easily used by practioniers, members of the civil society and academics and expects users to have only a basic understanding of R. Technically, the package relies on the DKAN API.

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("CorrelAid/CitiesRopen")