*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG): Chaytan Inman (11/05/25)
Posted: 10/30/2025 ()
When: November 5, 2025, 10 – 11 am
Where: Raitt 223 and on Zoom
On November 5, CSDE’s Computational Demography Working Group will host Chaytan Inman (Seattle Strange), who will present on “Studying Disinformation Narratives on Social Media with LLMs and Semantic Similarity.” Inman will be demonstrating the Twitter Narrative Analysis Dashboard developed for their graduate degree thesis. The tool is capable of tracing a short target narrative of natural language text across a dataset of tweets or other short form text. It computes a similarity score with each other text item in the dataset and graphs the resulting similarities over time for analysis. Inman validated this methodology by recreating the findings of disinformation researchers studying the 2020 election hoax narrative, and also by benchmarking the model on the GLUE STS-B. The benchmark findings show that the model strongly correlates to human judgement for rating similarity of natural language. The case study findings show that the dashboard tool is useful to find nuanced ways of spreading disinformation like sewing early seeds of doubt, while drastically reducing the researcher’s labor to code misinformative tweets. The Twitter Narrative Analysis Dashboard is available publicaly with my permission, and researchers interested in using it or forking the repository are welcome to contact Inman to chat!
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Chaytan Inman is a researcher and political activist with a passion for applying AI and machine learning to real-world challenges. Inman earned aBachelor’s in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2024, where they founded and led Interactive Intelligence, a diverse community fusing AI and neuroscience. One of their proudest achievements was developing free introductory NeuroAI courses for UW students, ensuring accessible education in emerging fields. Later, Inman ran for office in Washington state, advocating for Earth rights and environmental justice. As a recent graduate of the Master’s in International Studies at the UW Jackson School, Inman completed their thesis on social media analysis and disinformation research to leverage AI at the intersection of technology, society, and politics. Now Inman is a software developer, helping the Seattle Stranger and EverOut build strong local progressive media in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.