Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

Saw Jen Tullock’s amazing show and was so enamored throughout that I snapped not a single photo, but got to chat after for a bit with the brilliant @hamburgerwaiter.bsky.social …we did discuss elevator pitches 👀😅

So proud of @ashleymullan.bsky.social -- featured on the cover of @significancemag.bsky.social! Check out her beautiful interrupted time series plot 😍

I think Discord can be great! But will be inherently different, one of the parts that is still not quite anywhere else yet is all of the fancy people were in the same space (and not just for altruistic reasons!) as the newbies, so it was an amazing place to connect across levels

😢 I miss it too! I have so much to thank #rstats twitter for! Definitely my postdoc with Jeff, internship with Jenny& getting to hang with you at unconfs! I was just telling Noam how much I miss those. I feel like one problem now is there doesn’t feel like *one* place I know everyone will be talking

The Role of Congeniality in Multiple Imputation for Doubly Robust Causal Estimation | Lucy D'Agostino McGowan This talk provides clear and practical guidance on the specification of imputation models when multiple imputation is used in conjunction with doubly robust estimation methods for causal inference. Th...

And for my next talk, “The Role of Congeniality in Multiple Imputation for Doubly Robust Causal Estimation” #IDWSDS2025

In which I insist imputation models MUST include:

✅outcome
✅exposure
✅all in PS model
✅all in outcome models
*in the same functional form*

🎞️: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/idwsds_...

I am SO enjoying celebrating International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science by attending #IDWSDS2025

My first talk of the day:
The Art of Data Refinement: Severance Analyses
🎞️ Slides: lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr-talk/

(All made in Quarto ♥️)

Here is a sneak peak:

Simulate Data from Structural Equation Model — simulate_data This is a thin wrapper for the simulateSEM()function in dagitty that works with tidied dagitty objects. It treats the input DAG as a structural equation model, generating random path coefficients and ...

If I understand the use case I think ggdag can do this too! r-causal.github.io/ggdag/refere...

If you’re at the ISI conference, I’ll be here until Friday!

🙏

Quick little update to quarto-revealjs-editable

Now works with `::: editable` in addition to `::: {.editable}`. Not shown in gif.
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto

MMR and V separately, as is common in this age group, is still recommended and available

MMR and V separately, as is common in this age group, is still recommended and available

MMR and V separately, as is common in this age group, is still recommended and available

Some corrected headlines 🙏

Not loving these MMRV headlines, they feel misleading! The vast majority of kids under 4 in this country get MMR and V separately when they’re ~1 and this is what will still happen. The combined MMRV is what is changing, but that was not commonly given to young children already

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Another delightful #positconf in the books! So lovely to see everyone 🌻 I miss it already!

Especially excited about:
🤖 @minecr.bsky.social’s aifeedr
🌬️ Making my code pretty like @davisvaughan.bsky.social’s with air
✨ @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social’s editable quarto magic
📈 everything @kjhealy.co said

(So in my case the Xs tend to be baseline characteristics measured at time 0, y would be something measured at some time after 0)

I think in my research it is very unusual for someone’s Y to be my X if we otherwise have the same Xs because I’m thinking of estimating causal effects where temporarily Y must follow X but maybe there are lots of use cases I’m not thinking about!

This is interesting I think I would have come to the opposite conclusion that more often in practice we have our Xs not Y so deterministic may be more practical of the two!

A group shot of the 2024 StatFest participants.

StatFest 2025 is here! This program connects undergrad students from historically underrepresented groups with industry experts in stats, data science, and academia. Sept. 11, 18, & 25. Free and virtual. Register today: community.amstat.org...
#StatFest2025 #DataScience #Statistics #STEMCareers

I will!!

I know 🥲 she’s to talented!!

My extremely talented baby sister was featured in this @redbull.com documentary that was released today!

watch the whole thing here 👇
www.soundsofredbull.com/scoring-chal...

listen to more of Teesa’s music:
open.spotify.com/artist/2CttZ...
www.teesadagostino.com

Does Jenny Bryan #VibeCode? 🤔

She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆)

#rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python

Wake Forest also has a medical school & recently joined with Advocate Health making us the nation’s third largest nonprofit integrated health system — a huge opportunity if you’re interested in big (Huge!) data/ EHR /pragmatic trials etc. Several of us have joint appointments in the medical school 🤝

We have 9-month contracts (Aug - May) & are on “hard money” in a Statistical Sciences department — many of us cover the summer on external grants (although this isn’t required!)

We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩‍🏫

WFU to welcome Class of 2029 this week | Wake Forest News On April 20, Wake Forest University will welcome more than 1,500 first-year students, most of whom were born the year the iPhone debuted and the Harry Potter book series concluded. The Class of 2029 includes students from 45 states and the District of Columbia. Twenty-two countries are

Wake Forest will welcome more than 1,500 first-year students this week as the Class of 2029 arrives from 45 states, the District of Columbia and 22 countries.

I've stumbled upon an odd data resource. The FCC "Mapping Broadband Health in America" tool purports to be about mapping broadband internet access, but actually is the easiest source I've ever found for linking state-level averages across a zillion different topics c2h.fcc.gov/broadband-he...

YouTube video by Madrona The Future of Drug Discovery: AI, Data, and Design

I was recently on a panel talking about Synthesize Bio and the future of AI in biotech! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5s...

I need a sticky note to remind me that 99/100x this is the solution