Philip Andrew "Phil" Schrodt (born July 24, 1951) is a political scientist known for his work in automated data and event coding for political news. On August 1, 2013, he announced that he was leaving his job as professor at

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to become a full-time consultant. Schrodt is currently a senior research scientist at the statistical consulting firm Parus Analytical Systems.

Biography

Schrodt received an M.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in political science from

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in 1976. He worked at Northwestern University for 12 years, then at the

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for 21 years, and at

for 4 years, before leaving academia for a private sector job with Parus Analytical Systems.

Academic work

Schrodt's work has largely been focused on automated coding of event data for political news. In 1994, he created the

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(KEDS) that won the “Outstanding Computer Software Award” from the American Political Science Association in 1995. In 2000, he created the Textual Analysis by Augmented Replacement Instructions (TABARI) software in 2000 that improved on the KEDS. He developed the

Conflict and Mediation Event Observations Conflict and Mediation Event Observations (CAMEO) is a framework for coding event data (typically used for events that merit news coverage, and generally applied to the study of political news and violence). It is a more recent alternative to the W ...

(CAMEO) data coding framework along with Deborah J. Gerner and others. The TABARI software could automatically code event data according to the CAMEO framework. A modification of TABARI, called JABARI-NLP, was used for the

Integrated Conflict Early Warning System The Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS) combines a database of political events and a system using these to provide conflict early warnings. It is supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the United States. The databa ...

(ICEWS) database by

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. TABARI and CAMEO are also used for event coding for the

Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone The GDELT Project, or Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone, created by Kalev Leetaru of Yahoo! and Georgetown University, along with Philip Schrodt and others, describes itself as "an initiative to construct a catalog of human societal-sca ...

, that Schrodt co-created with

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and others.

Logistic regression In statistics, the logistic model (or logit model) is a statistical model that models the probability of an event taking place by having the log-odds for the event be a linear function (calculus), linear combination of one or more independent var ...

models created by Schrodt were also successfully incorporated into the predictive algorithms used by Lockheed Martin for ICEWS.

Reception

Schrodt's academic work as well as his views (including those expressed in his academic work and in his blog posts) are frequently referenced by other blogs about data science and predictive analytics in political science, such as

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's blog, the Predictive Heuristics blog, and Bad Hessian. He has also been referenced in ''

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'' articles.

References

External links

Personal blog
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