Akin Unver
@akinunver.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of International Relations at Ozyegin University, Istanbul. Data Science, Emerging Tech, War, TechnoPolitics. P.I. of DE-CONSPIRATOR (HorizonEU). Associate Editor; @gsqjournal.bsky.social Fellow; Carnegie Endowment Fellow. (akinunver.org)
Part 3 - Download messy data as CSV and API, and learn how to clean, format and visualize complex datasets: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHPG...
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Part 3 - Download messy data as CSV and API, and learn how to clean, format and visualize complex datasets: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHPG...
Part 2 - Create/modify Comma Separated Values-based dataframes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Y6...
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Part 2 - Create/modify Comma Separated Values-based dataframes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Y6...
As our world descends further into chaos, I have three new lecture videos geared towards data science newcomers. In three videos, I show you how to:
Part 1 - Download R and find your way around RStudio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2eJ...
Part 1 - Download R and find your way around RStudio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2eJ...
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
As our world descends further into chaos, I have three new lecture videos geared towards data science newcomers. In three videos, I show you how to:
Part 1 - Download R and find your way around RStudio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2eJ...
Part 1 - Download R and find your way around RStudio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2eJ...
this, but for reviewer-2
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
this, but for reviewer-2
Geçen sene Ahmet Kurnaz ile Dışişleri Bakanlığı metinleri üzerinde bir LLM benchmarking çalışması olmadığını farkedip biz yapalım demiştik. Bu sene düzenlenen @ieeeras.bsky.social 'da sunduk ve sonuçları yayınlandı - ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
August 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Geçen sene Ahmet Kurnaz ile Dışişleri Bakanlığı metinleri üzerinde bir LLM benchmarking çalışması olmadığını farkedip biz yapalım demiştik. Bu sene düzenlenen @ieeeras.bsky.social 'da sunduk ve sonuçları yayınlandı - ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
Since COVID, I recorded a ton of introductory lectures on data science, and data cleaning/visualization on Excel and R on Youtube. Finally managed to curate the most useful ones for beginners/newcomers and put them up on my website. Hope these will be of some benefit:
www.akinunver.org/teaching
www.akinunver.org/teaching
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Since COVID, I recorded a ton of introductory lectures on data science, and data cleaning/visualization on Excel and R on Youtube. Finally managed to curate the most useful ones for beginners/newcomers and put them up on my website. Hope these will be of some benefit:
www.akinunver.org/teaching
www.akinunver.org/teaching
So happy this is out.
The definitive Annual @carnegieendowment.org Technology Report is now live!
I'm contributing to this edition with a deep dive into why a 'TransAtlantic Information Defense Network' is necessary, and how to make it work. Check it out - carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
The definitive Annual @carnegieendowment.org Technology Report is now live!
I'm contributing to this edition with a deep dive into why a 'TransAtlantic Information Defense Network' is necessary, and how to make it work. Check it out - carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
May 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So happy this is out.
The definitive Annual @carnegieendowment.org Technology Report is now live!
I'm contributing to this edition with a deep dive into why a 'TransAtlantic Information Defense Network' is necessary, and how to make it work. Check it out - carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
The definitive Annual @carnegieendowment.org Technology Report is now live!
I'm contributing to this edition with a deep dive into why a 'TransAtlantic Information Defense Network' is necessary, and how to make it work. Check it out - carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Also important to discuss perceptions of GPTs being 'more empathetic' compared to increasing number of studies that reports of a mass decline of similar 'human-like' attitudes in healthcare, especially since COVID - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
May 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Also important to discuss perceptions of GPTs being 'more empathetic' compared to increasing number of studies that reports of a mass decline of similar 'human-like' attitudes in healthcare, especially since COVID - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Some responses are outright strange, but in case people are interested in discussing this seriously, here is a series of actual studies on this.
- arxiv.org/abs/2403.05572
- www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-more...
- www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
- today.ucsd.edu/story/study-...
- arxiv.org/abs/2403.05572
- www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-more...
- www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
- today.ucsd.edu/story/study-...
May 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Some responses are outright strange, but in case people are interested in discussing this seriously, here is a series of actual studies on this.
- arxiv.org/abs/2403.05572
- www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-more...
- www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
- today.ucsd.edu/story/study-...
- arxiv.org/abs/2403.05572
- www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-more...
- www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
- today.ucsd.edu/story/study-...
for some reason, i'm laughing at this meme more than i should.
May 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
for some reason, i'm laughing at this meme more than i should.
this was a good game -- i was skeptical at first, but quite educational (daily life in medieval Bohemia, political relations between principalities, Hungarian-Cuman politics) and fun. recommended for military history, medieval Europe enthusiasts
April 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
this was a good game -- i was skeptical at first, but quite educational (daily life in medieval Bohemia, political relations between principalities, Hungarian-Cuman politics) and fun. recommended for military history, medieval Europe enthusiasts
breakfast food wars, anytime
April 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
breakfast food wars, anytime
Counting down to @isanet.bsky.social #ISA2025 -- see you in Chicago!
February 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Counting down to @isanet.bsky.social #ISA2025 -- see you in Chicago!
'hiç mi yok?' is such an existentially beautiful question - it makes you question the very existence of nothingness 😄
January 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
'hiç mi yok?' is such an existentially beautiful question - it makes you question the very existence of nothingness 😄
you can lie with dataviz, but you can also be rude with dataviz. always remember to be kind to others with your dataviz, just like this bar graph is to Turkiye's inflation rate aberration by gently removing the %10-40 range 😀👍
January 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
you can lie with dataviz, but you can also be rude with dataviz. always remember to be kind to others with your dataviz, just like this bar graph is to Turkiye's inflation rate aberration by gently removing the %10-40 range 😀👍
bring this back but for developmental microecon conferences
January 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
bring this back but for developmental microecon conferences
This Wednesday at Sabanci to talk about the challenges of designing multi-methods large-scale research projects on information manpiulation and how to bring 'social' back into computational social science
December 23, 2024 at 10:49 AM
This Wednesday at Sabanci to talk about the challenges of designing multi-methods large-scale research projects on information manpiulation and how to bring 'social' back into computational social science
bring this back but for econ conferences
December 19, 2024 at 11:42 AM
bring this back but for econ conferences
Pleasure presenting our TEPSA report on AI and authoritarianism at the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights yesterday.
Recording here: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
Recording here: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
December 5, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Pleasure presenting our TEPSA report on AI and authoritarianism at the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights yesterday.
Recording here: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
Recording here: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
For Brussels colleagues, I'll present the findings of my report on A.I., Authoritarianism and Human Rights at the European Parliament SubCom on Human Rights (DROI) hearing on 4 December.
For report europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
For hearing agenda multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
For report europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
For hearing agenda multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
November 28, 2024 at 12:42 PM
For Brussels colleagues, I'll present the findings of my report on A.I., Authoritarianism and Human Rights at the European Parliament SubCom on Human Rights (DROI) hearing on 4 December.
For report europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
For hearing agenda multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
For report europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
For hearing agenda multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
2. Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS-Istanbul) I have been organizing since 2018, featuring amazing lecturers, that carry upper beginners from basic R and Python to more intermediate modeling, GIS, network analysis, text mining and more: www.akinunver.org/sicss-istanbul
November 20, 2024 at 2:58 AM
2. Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS-Istanbul) I have been organizing since 2018, featuring amazing lecturers, that carry upper beginners from basic R and Python to more intermediate modeling, GIS, network analysis, text mining and more: www.akinunver.org/sicss-istanbul
For digital research methods people: over the last few years, I've distilled my social data science lectures into categories easily accessible to newcomers.
1. 'fundamentals' series, starting with Excel, carrying students all the way to basic R: www.akinunver.org/teaching
1. 'fundamentals' series, starting with Excel, carrying students all the way to basic R: www.akinunver.org/teaching
November 20, 2024 at 2:56 AM
For digital research methods people: over the last few years, I've distilled my social data science lectures into categories easily accessible to newcomers.
1. 'fundamentals' series, starting with Excel, carrying students all the way to basic R: www.akinunver.org/teaching
1. 'fundamentals' series, starting with Excel, carrying students all the way to basic R: www.akinunver.org/teaching
Hello from Singapore! Here to talk about @DECONSPIRATOR and the information manipulation/interference dynamics in southeast Asia - www.rsis.edu.sg/event/cens-c...
November 19, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Hello from Singapore! Here to talk about @DECONSPIRATOR and the information manipulation/interference dynamics in southeast Asia - www.rsis.edu.sg/event/cens-c...