Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Director of the ,
Gary King and his colleagues developed a computer-assisted method for the discovery of insightful conceptualizations from unstructured text — a way of “reading” or understanding information in a massive numbers of documents that no unassisted human being could accomplish in a lifetime of effort. Applying this new approach to 64,000 press releases from the U.S. Senate (among other data sets), they discovered and measured “partisan taunting,” a new conceptualization of how members act.