Kevin McElwee
After graduating Princeton in 2018 with a degree in Music, Kevin worked as a machine learning engineer in the energy sector, where he developed deep learning software that helps utilities predict electric consumption.
Kevin freelances as a data journalist, with articles appearing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Nautilus Magazine, and Motherboard. At the CDH, he's researched the Fortune 100's reaction on Twitter to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
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Startwords
A journal for experimental humanities research, irregularly published by the CDH
Mondrianify
Transforming images into Mondrian paintings
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Mistakes to avoid when using Twitter data for the first time
19 March 2021
I just finished putting a lot of time into collecting, cleaning, and analyzing Fortune 100 tweets from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. After a few thousand tweets, I hit plenty of hurdles and corner cases. Below I’ve listed some mistakes that I’ve encountered while working with the Twitter API.