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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Plot example, lobbying stories

Here's one I did with plot for a chapter in my diss. Hugo Black chaired a pretty big investigation into lobbying in 1935 and 1936; so big it drove a spike in news coverage. I counted the number of hits for ProQuest searches of "lobbying." There's another version, where I try to control for the total number of stories. The shape ends up the same. Why do I think we're going to end up with a lot of graphs heading into this baseball draft?













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