Jeff Clement

Good news: Found the data I need.

Bad news: It's text in a space-delimited wide format. BARF.

Not sure if your dissertation work could fall under one of Arnold Ventures' current grant RFPs (e.g. assets.arnoldventures.org/uploads/AV_R...) but Jennifer Doleac mentioned that AV could potentially provide some bridge funding for affected researchers!

I feel like sometimes people end up “too far left to function” (or accomplish any of their goals because they ignore political realities and aren’t willing to build a coalition with anyone who doesn’t share all of their beliefs) and so anybody who isn’t that seems more centrist by comparison.

"Classified information is available upon reasonable request."

If you are an author on the Many-Economists project but have not received any emails from me in the past month it means that we have outdated contact info for you. Please contact me immediately.

Reviewers: "We want to see X, Y, Z, M, N, P, Q and W additional analyses and robustness tests. Also, fit it under the page limit."

Keep cancelling. Invite and make space to bring top academics to your insititutions if they feel they have to leave US (especially post docs, PhD candidates, and pre-tenure non citizens).

FWIW, I saw people (appropriately) fired for accidentally leaving small amounts of, realistically, "barely sensitive" classified information on military bases in Afghanistan. And nobody was surprised--they screwed up and everybody knew it.

This is such a cool project--I'm thrilled that I got to be a part of it.

The big takeaway for me is that we need to do *less* research with *more* people on the team and try to do real code review and parallel analysis of our data.

I was supposed to launch the final experiment of my diss/JMP that day. We unanimously agreed to postpone (ultimately for ~2 mos) because “who can even think about anything else right now.” And yeah, same. If I get tenure, cool. If the country devolves into chaos, I guess I’ll be doing that instead.

Woah even that seems like a lot!

What is your limit on reviewing papers, if you don’t mind my asking?

INBOX ZERO. Don't any of you jerks email me. Oh, and happy new year.

Things got busy again and I didn't have time to do the puzzles the last few days, but I'm back!

#AdventOfCode #RStats

Kids craft kits from like KiwiCo should be required to include no fewer than 10 pictures of the thing made by a child the target age advised by a parent who’s never seen it before. Don’t show me the perfect product made by an adult given 5 attempts…

Coming from a not-computer-sciency background, the Advent of Code is a fun challenge. I don't ever have time to complete the whole thing, but I'm keeping up with 2024 so far. And since most of my work is in #RStats so is my Advent of Code :-)

#AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

Back of the envelope math, I was spending ~4 hours per year at gas stations. Just the time savings from home charging frees up time and certainly less stressful.

If you're planning Spring classes and Technical Debt would be relevant, my case on the Southwest Airlines meltdown is now available from Harvard Business Publishing.

hbsp.harvard.edu/product/W365...

Reminder that the probably easiest way to import the citation for an #Rstats package to @zotero.bsky.social is probably to

1. run citation("package_name") in R
2. copy the BibTeX entry
3. go to #Zotero File > Import from clipboard

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Distracting myself by fiddling with something neat...using Expected Parrot's edsl library in-stream in an R data analysis to pass data to ChatGPT (in this case for classification) and then merging the answers back into R (w/ the reticulate package in RStudio).

@johnjhorton.bsky.social

I spent a while trying to decide whether to hold class on Wed and decided yes.

1) University is open.
2) Students paid for that day.
3) I am paid to teach that day. I uphold my agreements.

But.
1) I might forget to take attendance.
2) Heyyyy a pre-rec video of my lecture is already on the LMS.

I’m dealing with a reviewer right now who wants post-hoc explanations for the weights in the synth did. Like “what do they mean” explanations. Anything I say will be sensemaking and storytelling. It’s a real obstacle.

For a second, I thought you were going to be proposing a quadruple differences estimator (DiDiDiD).

I'll be talking about my paper "Covid-19 is (Probably) Not an Exogenous Shock or Valid Instrument" at Oslo Met's Pandemics and Society Seminar today via Zoom at 1600 CET/1100 US Eastern/1000 US Central.

Minimal math, I'll make my argument with vibes.

uni.oslomet.no/pansoc/2024/...

#EconSky

Okay, how on earth did we miss the opportunity to call the field of studying healthcare IT "infirmation systems"?

@ajh.bsky.social

Here's one, published in a decent journal published in late 2023...Covid-19 policies as an instrument for disruption of schooling...to assess impact on youth mental health. Come. On.

#EconSky

Looking for examples of bad IVs for a seminar discussion. Just found a paper looking to assess the impact of socioeconomic factors on Covid-19. The paper uses WINDSPEED and AVERAGE RAINFALL 3 and 4 weeks ago to instrument for the NUMBER OF DOCTORS.

It is WILD out there.

I get that a small number of high-stakes assessments has problems, and so we don't want grades based on that. But I'm getting tons of pushback now on grades being based on a large number of little, more formative exercises (from students who just won't do them). Can't win.

many-to-many is the best cookie relationship

Chicago, you’re perfect.