Text Analysis for Guessing the NYTimes Op-Ed Author

Published: Sept. 16, 2018, 6:13 p.m.

A very intriguing op-ed was published in the NY Times recently, in which the author (a senior official in the Trump White House) claimed to be a minor saboteur of sorts, acting with his or her colleagues to undermine some of Donald Trump\u2019s worst instincts and tendencies. Pretty stunning, right? So who is the author? It\u2019s a mystery\u2014the op-ed was published anonymously. That hasn\u2019t stopped people from speculating though, and some machine learning on the vocabulary used in the op-ed is one way to get clues.