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Professor Timoneda is a comparativist data scientist with a focus on authoritarian regimes and democratic backsliding, utilizing big data methods. His book project, 'Dictators Survive', investigates how dictators use formal institutions to personalize their regime and extend their tenure, employing archival research and advanced natural language processing techniques to analyze the evolution of Rafael Trujillo's regime in the Dominican Republic. His applied methods work emphasizes forecasting trends and events using big data, particularly through Twitter and Google Trends. At Purdue University, he participates in the Advanced Methods Program and teaches in the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program.
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