Alberto Guzman-Alvarez, PhD

🚨 New report!

“The Road to SUCCESS” documents how Massachusetts built a statewide student support initiative across all 15 public community colleges.

Comprehensive support services. Local flexibility. Rapid scale-up.

Report 👉: annenberg.brown.edu/publications...

20.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

🎓 Been meaning to share this: I built a Quarto extension that formats your dissertation to meet ProQuest requirements. It's reproducible, flexible, and based on the University of Pittsburgh template.

👉 github.com/alberto-guzm...

#Dissertation #PhDLife #Quarto #GradSchool #OpenScience

18.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Optimization-Based Stable Balancing Weights Use optimization to estimate weights that balance covariates for binary, multi-category, continuous, and multivariate treatments in the spirit of Zubizarreta (2015) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2015.1023805>...

I recently updated my #Rstats package {optweight} for the first time in 6 years(!), and I want to give it the attention it deserves with an announcement and mini thread.

In short, {optweight} uses optimization to estimate balancing weights in observational studies.

#episky #statssky #causalsky

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09.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 30    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅

04.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 153    🔁 96    💬 11    📌 7

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

19.04.2025 01:25 — 👍 626    🔁 492    💬 17    📌 30

New org established to defend Department of Education

coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education

www.protectpubliced.org

13.02.2025 21:37 — 👍 156    🔁 84    💬 3    📌 4

If you are a member of an underrepresented group in data science, consider applying for a scholarship to attend this year's posit::conf() in Atlanta!

21.01.2025 20:52 — 👍 45    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 1

Updated with recent arrivals from the higher Ed policy and advocacy space.
go.bsky.app/4ikmJ3T

26.11.2024 13:38 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Please join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

04.10.2023 18:22 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0