/Characterizing-Political-Opinions

Apply traditional statistical methods such as PCA and FA to characterize political opinions within survey research data

MSDS 411
ASSIGNMENT 1 - README 
PREPARED BY VINCENT PUN

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LIST OF FILE NAMES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF FILES: 

1. pun-v-paper.pdf = text content of the paper 
2. pun-v-code.txt = complete program code used to access and analyze the data 

3. Fig-1-Corrplot.jpg = Figure 1, part of paper 
4. Fig-2-SCree-plot = Figure 2, part of paper
5. Fig-3-Heatmap.jpg = Figure 3, part of paper
6. Fig-4-Path-Diagram.jpg = Figure 4, part of paper 

7. Support-1-Numbered-DF-Logic.pdf = Logic used to recode data 
8. Support-2-Feature-Engineering-Logic.pdf = Logic used to create interesting variables
9. Mar19public.sav = Pew Research Center March 2019 Political Survey Data 

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