Projects

by Bryan Wang

This is a collection of my independent research and data science projects. My primary area of research is in economics whereas my work in data science is more diverse, elaborating on the variegated topics that appear in my articles and reading.

A Pirate's Discretion: Modeling Differences Between Legal and Illicit Anime-Streaming Communities

The paper takes three data sets representing the legal anime-streaming community, the illegal anime-streaming community, and the whole, non-sectioned anime community, explicating differences within and making predictions about the intersection of all three sources using machine learning methods.

The Plague of Complaint: How Network Effects Explain the Breakdown of Consumer Sentiment Forecasts

The network effects of public, visible reactions to COVID disposed consumers toward complaint and pessimism but left private, lesser-visible behaviors untouched and consistent with economic realities.

The Opportunity Cost of Crime: Identifying Key Factors of and Solutions to the U.S. Recidivism Problem

By building a model to predict recidivism, we hope to identify those most likely to reoffend and highlight factors that contribute to recidivism, allowing policymakers to effectively target root problems that affect genuine change.