Dean Eckles
scientist, statistician, professor
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The Noisy Neighbor Effect: How Negative Advertising in One State Influences Viewers Next Door by Stan Oklobdzija :: SSRN
Papers.ssrn.com 76d 2 tweets
The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC unlocked a flood of new political advertising at all levels of government, leaving voters to deciphe
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress 4d 9 tweets
The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Yet it was a simple mechanical invention. It would seem to require no brilliant inventive insight, and certainly no scientific background.
Design Principles for Mathematical Engineering in Experimentation Platform at Netflix
Medium 3d 1 tweets
In order to produce software that improves scientists productivity we have come up with the following design principles.
Dean Eckles Engineering an experimentation system to enable new techniques "graduating" from research to production. Other goals discussed in the piece: 3d
Faster Rates for Policy Learning
arXiv.org 3d 1 tweets
This article improves the existing proven rates of regret decay in optimal policy estimation. We give a margin-free result showing that the regret decay for estimating a within-class optimal policy is second-order for empirical risk minimizers over...
How a Criminal Justice Reform Became an Enrichment Scheme
POLITICO Magazine 4d 5 tweets
Low-level offenders can now avoid incarceration in many places by paying a fee. One official in Rapides Parish began asking who was keeping that money.
Disaster Risk Prevention, Management, and Response Using Big Data
World Bank 4d 1 tweets
Improving Disaster Preparedness Using Big Data
How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals
Jessica Roy - latimes.com 8d 11 tweets
As people sour on the religious beliefs they grew up with, a new generation is embracing astrology apps, tarot cards, crystals and other spiritual practices.
Introducing the do-sampler for causal inference - adam kelleher
Adam Kelleher - Medium 6d 1 tweets
Adam Kelleher and Amit Sharma
United States Efforts to Counter Russian Disinformation and Malign Influence
House Committee on Appropriations 5d 1 tweets
Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Dean Eckles House hearing on US efforts to counter Russian disinformation from Weds 5d
People in Japan are renting cars but not driving them
Andrew J. Hawkins 🚂🚇🚀 - The Verge 12d 3 tweets
"Traveled no distance"
Dean Eckles Appropriating car sharing services to rent a place to nap or eat lunch 5d
AT&T Breaks Another Merger Promise In Making 'Friends' Exclusive
Techdirt. 6d 1 tweets
Last year AT&T defeated the DOJ's challenge to the company's $86 billion merger with Time Warner thanks to a comically narrow reading of the markets by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon. At no point in his original 172-page...
Dean Eckles Reversal in content licensing from Time Warner and AT&T merger case to now 6d
Improving the Interpretation of Fixed Effects Regression Results | Political Science Research and Methods
Cambridge Core 6d 1 tweets
Improving the Interpretation of Fixed Effects Regression Results - Volume 6 Issue 4 - Jonathan Mummolo, Erik Peterson
Dean Eckles On the value of considering counterfactuals that aren't ridiculously far from the kind of within-unit variation in your panel data by and ht 6d
Workers of the World on Getting By in an Era of Wrenching Change
Bloomberg.com 7d 4 tweets
A yearlong project to capture the voices of workers facing unprecedented global change.
Big experiments: Big data’s friend for making decisions
Facebook.com 1834d 2 tweets
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Dean Eckles I'm a big fan of big experiments. We made a related argument (though oriented at field experiments) when we launched PlanOut 6d
Suzanne Berger named inaugural John M. Deutch Institute Professor
MIT News 8d 2 tweets
Political scientist awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor in new titled position.
Dean Eckles The other new Institute Professor is political scientist Suzanne Berger, who has studied industrialization, multinational corporations, and innovation. 7d
Daron Acemoglu named Institute Professor
MIT News 8d 2 tweets
Versatile economist awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor.
Dean Eckles One new Institute Professor is economist Daron Acemoğlu, whose work has ranged from studies of political institutions (see "Why Nations Fail") to microeconomic models of behavior in networks 7d
Harvard Suspends Roland Fryer, Star Economist, After Harassment Inquiries
Nytimes.com 8d 14 tweets
The decision will sideline the researcher without pay for two years, and close his lab, in a case that has roiled the profession.
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Dean Eckles New developments in Harvard Economics sexual harassment case 7d
Apply - Interfolio
Apply.interfolio.com 9d 2 tweets
Dean Eckles Interested in joining the faculty? We're hiring faculty with a focus on marketing, consumer behavior, and related areas 8d
Introducing Dagster - Nick Schrock
Nick Schrock - Medium 10d 2 tweets
A open-source Python library for building data applications
Mozilla’s Latest Research Grants: Prioritizing Research for the Internet
The Mozilla Blog 12d 1 tweets
We are very happy to announce the results of our Mozilla Research Grants for the first half of 2019. This was an extremely competitive process, and we selected proposals which ...