Cyrus Samii

Data Science Frontiers:

🚨Call for submissions (by Aug 1)🚨
NYU "Data Science Frontiers: Society and Politics" conference. Held at NYU’s New York campus Oct 15-17. Submit a paper or extended abstract. Full details here: nyuad.my.salesforce-sites.com/NYEvents/ape...
Travel subsidies for presenters. Please forward!

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook Low uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine in the US has been widely attributed to social media misinformation. To evaluate this claim, we introduce a framework combining lab experiments (total N = 18,725), c...

Then, I love this paper by Allen et al. although I suspect you have it already :-)

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This paper uses observational data to extend results from a field experiment: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The program with links to papers can be found at the link above.

Polmeth 2025 kicks off today at Emory. I’ll be presenting work on inference for group interaction experiments (eg, group training, experimental games, deliberation experiments, etc.) and coauthor Sandy Gordon will introduce our new data authentication tool, Data-NoMAD

polmeth.emory.edu/index.html

Data Science Frontiers:

🚨Call for submissions (by Aug 1)🚨
NYU "Data Science Frontiers: Society and Politics" conference. Held at NYU’s New York campus Oct 15-17. Submit a paper or extended abstract. Full details here: nyuad.my.salesforce-sites.com/NYEvents/ape...
Travel subsidies for presenters. Please forward!

Research Manager, DevLab@Penn University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We (pdri-devlab) are hiring a research manager! Come join our team engaged in policy-relevant collaborative research (mostly migration, climate, enviormnet, big data for dev) in the great city of brotherly love. Pls share widely with your network.

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Do you have paperskygest set up? It’s great:

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Developing methods for causal inference for human and social processes is important I believe. Maybe my contributions would have come about anyway even if I never existed, though. That’s fine. I’m happy to be a part of it, even if a replaceable one.

This is a lovely post comparing algorithms to compute OLS coefficients

New paper! Regression is motivated in binary treatment settings as producing a convex, conditional-variance-weighted average of heterogeneous treatment effects, but in the continuous treatment case estimates the slope of the true DRF at a point that may not exist in the data. Do AIPW when feasible

An old boss once told me “each sentence should carry one idea and one idea only.” Good, Strunk and White-esque advice.

Sinner Alcaraz about to portal into the next dimension

Coco!!!

What a battle between Sinner and Djokovic. Both playing all out.

In the most recent issue of @restatjournal.bsky.social (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...), we (Kaspar Wuthrich and @karthik-econ.bsky.social) provide guidance on how to analyze and design experiments with factorial designs (or cross-cuts). A 🧵 below:

Opinion | The Real Story of the ‘China Shock’ The jobs harm was largely local and temporary, while overall jobs and consumer welfare increased.

www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Heckman and Fang’s oped is on point and antithetical to both the current administration and opposition narratives, so clearly conveyed that it will surely be mostly ignored:

The Real Story of the “China Shock” by @heckmanequation and @HanmingF

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NYC, more the mayoral candidates decided to weigh in on our questions. So we've updated the Meet Your Mayor quiz!

See if your matches have changed, and be sure to share this with your friends!
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Need support with fieldwork prep? Still time to register for our fieldwork course at the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social

Hard to win titles without a first serve

Optimal transport to match distributions, optimal transport to solve high dimensional matching problems, optimal transport to prove CLTs…

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Yes - it's worth reading Bush's "Science, the Endless Frontier", which led to institutionalized federal support for US science. He notes that allies wouldn't have won WWII without European emigre talent, and that without new institutions, such talent was not reproducible in US. cyrussamii.com?p=4099

Of course the highlights would select the more dramatic points

Just watched the Zheng-Gauff highlights. Instant classic.

Baby Rose performed her new album with them and it was awesome

ACIC off to a good BADBADNOTGOOD start

From our new issue: "Peer Effects and Recidivism: Wartime Connections and Criminality among Colombian Ex-Combatants" by Mateo Vásquez-Cortés. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...