Episode 5 of the Odd Couple: Making Maps with Claude Code!

About this episode

Scott Cunningham and Caitlin Myers explore the impact of Texas House Bill 2 on marriage certificates using data analysis and mapping techniques.

Me and Caitlin Myers are back with our trusted robot command line interface secret agent with a license to kill, Claude Code! This week we continue our live research project studying the closure of abortion clinics across Texas under House Bill 2 and its effect on county marriage certificates, or the flow of new marriages. In the previous weeks, recall Claude Code helped find, pull, store locally marriage certificates — with people’s names and selected demographics for goodness sake! — and then build a panel dataset. But Claude also helped us try to understand what was going on with these date when some irregularities were spotted. And to satisfy by seemingly endless itch, Claude also made us “beautiful decks” according to my rhetoric of decks philosophy at my MixtapeTools repository that contains skills I regularly use. And the deck had beautiful pictures in it. This week we extend that exercise and make maps of Texas with more data as we continue pressing ahead to determine the relationship, potentially causal, of increased travel distance on the flow of people into marriage. Thanks again for tuning in. Tell your friends, family, your old second grade teacher, Ms. Lacy, your…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Cunningham

Guest: Caitlin Myers

Topics covered

• abortion clinics
• marriage certificates
• data analysis
• Texas
• research project

Keywords

• abortion
• marriage
• Texas
• data
• research
• House Bill 2
• maps

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Middlebury College, Baylor University

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