Research on Statistical and Machine Learning, Privacy Preservation and Open Data
Published Papers
2019. Vito D'Orazio, James Honaker, Michael Shoemate and Raman Prasad. ``Modeling and Forecasting Armed Conflict: AutoML with Human-Guided Machine Learning.'' Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Intelligence and Defense 2019 (BDA4CID 2019) at IEEE BigData 2019, Los Angeles, CA, December 2019. PDF
2019. Gil, Yolanda, James Honaker, Shikhar Gupta, Yibo Ma, Vito D'Orazio, Daniel Garijo, Shruti Gadewar, Qifan Yang, and Neda Jahanshad. ``Towards Human-Guided Machine Learning.'' Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Los Angeles, CA, March 2019. PDF
2019. Plutzer, Eric, Michael B. Berkman, James Honaker, Christopher Ojeda, and Anne Whitesell. ``Measuring Complex State Policies: Pitfalls and Considerations, with an Application to Race and Welfare Policy.'' Policy Studies Journal. doi: 10.1111/psj.12307 or PDF
2018. Wood, Alexandra, Micah Altman, Aaron Bembenek, Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, James Honaker, Kobbi Nissim, David R. OBrien, Thomas Steinke, and Salil Vadhan. ``Differential privacy: A primer for a non-technical audience.'' Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law v21, no. 1 (2018): 209-275. PDF
2017. Blackwell, Matthew, James Honaker and Gary King. ``A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Overview and Applications'' Sociological Methods and Research. 46(3):303--341. PDF
2017. Blackwell, Matthew, James Honaker and Gary King. ``A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Details and Extensions'' Sociological Methods and Research. 46(3):342--369. PDF
2015. Merce Crosas, Gary King, James Honaker and Latanya Sweeney. ``Automating Open Science for Big Data'' Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 659(1): 260--273.PDF
2014. Honaker, James and Vito D'Orazio. ``Statistical Modeling by Gesture: A graphical, browser-based statistical interface for data repositories'' Extended Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2014.PDF
2011. Honaker, James, Gary King and Matthew Blackwell. ``Amelia II: A Program for Missing Data.'' Journal of Statistical Software 45(7): 1-47.PDF
2010. Honaker, James and Gary King. ``What to do About Missing Values in Time-Series Cross-Section Data.'' American Journal of Political Science 54(2): 561-581.PDF
2008. Frisina, Laurin, Michael Herron, James Honaker and Jeffrey B. Lewis. ``Ballot Formats, Touchscreens, and Undervotes: A Study of the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida.'' Election Law Journal 7(1):25-47.PDF
2002. Honaker, James, Jonathan Katz and Gary King. ``A Fast, Easy, and Efficient Estimator for Multiparty Electoral Data'' Political Analysis 10(1):84-100.PDF
2001. King, Gary, James Honaker, Anne Joseph and Kenneth Scheve. ``Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data: An Alternative Algorithm for Multiple Imputation'' American Political Science Review 95(1):49-69.PDF
Working Papers
2018. Thomas Brawner and James Honaker. ``Bootstrap Inference and Differential Privacy: Standard Errors for Free'' Presented at Summer Meetings of the Society for Political Methodology, Provo, Utah, July 2018. PDF
2016. Marco Gaboardi, James Honaker, Gary King, Kobbi Nissim, Jonathan Ullman, Salil Vadhan. ``PSI (Ψ): a Private data Sharing Interface'' Presented at Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP16), New York, June 2016. PDF
2015. Vito D'Orazio, James Honaker and Gary King. ``Differential Privacy for Social Science Inference'' Presented at Summer Meetings of the Society for Political Methodology, Rochester, July 2015. PDF
2015. Christine Choirat, Vito D'Orazio, James Honaker, Muhammed Y. Idris and Jennifer McGrath. ``Interpreting Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software' Presented at Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 2015. PDF
2015. Honaker, James. ``Efficient Use of Differentially Private Binary Trees.'' Presented at TPDP 2015 - Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy, London, April 2015. PDF
2014. ``The Structure of Autocratic Rule.'' (With Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright) Presented at the European Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Barcelona, June 2013. Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.\ C., August 2014. PDF
2013. ``Sorting Algorithms for Qualitative Data to Recover Latent Dimensions with Crowdsourced Judgments: Measuring State Policies for Welfare Eligibility under TANF'' Presented at the Summer Meetings of the Society for Political Methodology, Charlotte, July 2011.PDF
2013. ``Measuring State TANF Policy.'' (With Michael Berkman, Christopher Ojeda, and Eric Plutzer) Presented at State Politics and Policy, Iowa City, May 2013.PDF
2011. ``Learning Vectors for Case Study Analysis.'' Presented at the Summer Meetings of the Society for Political Methodology, Princeton, July 2011.PDF
2011. Honaker, James and Eric Plutzer. ``Small Area Estimation from Multiple Overimputation.'' Presented at MPSA, Chicago, March 2011. PDF
2011. Honaker, James. ``Unemployment and Violence in Northern Ireland: a missing data model for ecological inference.'' Presented at the Summer Meetings of the Society for Political Methodology, Tallahassee, July 2005. PDF
2008. Honaker, James. ``Measuring Metaphor: A quantitative approach to judging the similarity of mental models in unstructured interviews.'' Presented at Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 2008. PDF