Dean Eckles
networks, contagion, causality. professor
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Dean Eckles Interesting ad from USPS. It might seem somewhat vague about political vs. commercial, but it is part of this political-focused effort 32m
How Do You Do, FNU? Some in U.S. Handle Just One Name
Miriam Jordan - WSJ 2h 1 tweets
Immigrants from countries where it is common to have a single name find themselves given an acronym that can be hard to pronounce.
Dean Eckles Of course, even if this wasn't cruel & arbitrary, it probably will create downstream problems in govt data... Reminds me of how many Afghan immigrants to the US are saddled with the "first name" of FNU 2h
Key things to know about election polling in the United States
Pew Research Center 2h 1 tweets
The real environment in which polls are conducted bears little resemblance to the idealized settings presented in textbooks.
Frontiers in Machine Learning: Big Ideas in Causality and Machine Learning - Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research 2h 1 tweets
Causal relationships are stable across distribution shifts. Models based on causal knowledge have the potential to generalize to unseen domains and offer counterfactual predictions: how do outcomes change if a certain feature is changed in the real...
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Linkinghub.elsevier.com 3h 1 tweets
Dean Eckles Maybe this reflects that it is perhaps common (?) in this field to publish many papers on one RCT (e.g. the authors had previously published results of the same RCT, but without the citation outcome ), so I guess more papers are coming. 3h
Tweeting-Citations Authors Speak, Finally
The Scholarly Kitchen 57h 10 tweets
We stand by our data. We just won't share it or believe that you replicated our study.
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Dean Eckles Some questions about data quality in this study. And despite it being public citation data, authors decline to share it or seemingly enough info to reconstruct the outcome. 4h
In These Neighborhoods, the Jobless Rate May Top 30 Percent
Emily Badger - Nytimes.com 10h 6 tweets
New maps show how the virus has severely deepened economic inequality within cities.
The AI Economist: Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies
Salesforce Research 98d 5 tweets
In this work, we focus on the opportunity to use AI to promote social welfare through the design of optimal tax policies in dynamic economies.
Dean Eckles Is AI also coming for economists' jobs? 6h
How QAnon Creates a Dangerous Alternate Reality
Nytimes.com 20h 5 tweets
Game designer Adrian Hon says the conspiracy theory parallels the immersive worlds of alternate reality games.
Do some people have protection against the coronavirus?
CNN 3d 4 tweets
Why do some people get very sick and even die from Covid-19, while others show few if any symptoms? We know some of the big factors that put people at higher risk of having a severe course of disease, but could certain people actually have some type...
Conditional As-If Analyses in Randomized Experiments
arXiv.org 24h 1 tweets
The injunction to `analyze the way you randomize' is well-known to statisticians since Fisher advocated for randomization as the basis of inference. Yet even those convinced by the merits of randomization-based inference seldom follow this...
The cost of uncoordinated responses to COVID-19 | MIT Sloan
MIT Sloan 25h 1 tweets
Social distance behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic are influenced by geography and social connectedness, a new study finds.
Dean Eckles Nice summary of our work on how policies to reduce spread of COVID-19 (or their absence) have spillovers via geographic and social networks 25h
Hackers are charging millions to cover up GDPR breaches, researchers claim
NS Tech 25h 1 tweets
<p>Ransomware attacks have evolved from the “spray and pray” methodology popular several years ago to highly sophisticated operations that leverage an arsenal of tools to pressure victims
Twitter faces $250 million FTC fine for misusing emails and phone numbers
The Verge 42h 2 tweets
Emails and phone numbers were used for advertising instead of security purposes.
The Mask Slackers of 1918
Nytimes.com 54h 41 tweets
As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars.
Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91
BBC News 51h 6 tweets
Bill English was the first person to use a computer mouse, building the first prototype in 1963.
The typical set and its relevance to Bayesian computation « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu 3d 2 tweets
Dean Eckles “In high-dimensional space, no one can hear you scream.” 46h
Tech Firms’ Counterterrorism Forum Threatens Rights
Human Rights Watch 51h 1 tweets
When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core 53h 2 tweets
When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments - GRAEME BLAIR, ALEXANDER COPPOCK, MARGARET MOOR
Americans Need More Neighbors
Nytimes.com 417d 10 tweets
A big idea in Minneapolis points the way for other cities desperately in need of housing.