@brhkim.bsky.social
Director of Data Science and Research at Common App, focused on higher ed access and success with policy, data, data viz, NLP, and R // PhD @ UVA Edu / MPP @ UVA Batten // www.brhkim.com // commonapp.org/research
or go straight to the open-source repository to start digging in on my vision for DAAF, what DAAF currently can and cannot do as of today, how you can get involved, and most importantly: how you can get started with DAAF yourself!
github.com/DAAF-Contrib...
...with safety guardrails, auditability, analytic rigor, and the ability to replicate every single thing it does, always.
I am trying to share the on-ramp and guidance that I wished I had, and that I think every one of my friends and colleagues need to get started. Check out my 10-minute demo above
Last week, I launched DAAF: the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework. It's a forever-free, open-source toolkit and resource that takes you from never having touched Claude Code to actually using it as a force-multiplying exo-skeleton in as little as *ten minutes* from a fresh computer
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Are you a data scientist/researcher trying to figure out how to get started with AI tools like Claude Code -- without sacrificing the transparency, rigor, or reproducibility you know *matters* for producing insights you can actually stand by?
21.02.2026 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks for reading and engaging earnestly!
16.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Believe me, I am absolutely as concerned as you are. With all that in mind, I would *love* to hear what you think, what your questions are, what you’re seeing if you test it, and absolutely every critical thought you’re willing to share -- so we can learn on this frontier together.
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Learn more about my vision for DAAF, what makes DAAF different from other attempts to create LLM research assistants, what DAAF currently can and cannot do as of today, how you can get involved, and how you can get started with DAAF yourself!
github.com/DAAF-Contrib...
Never used Claude Code? No idea where you'd even start? My full installation guide walks you through every step -- but hopefully this video shows how quick a full DAAF installation can be from start-to-finish. Just 3mins!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqkV...
...rigor, or reproducibility demanded by our core scientific principles. And you (yes, YOU!) can install and begin using it in as little as 10 minutes from a fresh computer with a high-usage Anthropic account (crucial accessibility caveat!!). See my 10-minute video demo here:
youtu.be/ZAM9OA0AlUs
Today, I’m launching DAAF, the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework: an open-source, extensible workflow for Claude Code that allows skilled researchers to rapidly scale their expertise and accelerate data analysis by 5-10x -- *without* sacrificing the transparency...
github.com/brhkim/daaf/...
We hope you’ll consider submitting a proposal or referring this to colleagues who may be interested. Please also let me know also if you have any questions or suggestions, as we’re very much looking forward to iteratively improving this process in the years to come!!!
10.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0...to limit burden on research teams and maximize everyone's clarity and transparency with the process -- please take a peek at the FAQ, especially, if you're interested in applying! All to say, we think this is an important and exciting evolution in what we can learn together.
10.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This CfRP builds on the overwhelming interest from researchers last year, as well as the many important learnings we gathered from navigating a public proposal process for the first time. We've made a bunch of really important and (hopefully) helpful adjustments to the process...
10.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our hope is that we can begin harnessing this enormous (+ enormously complicated) dataset to speak to critical questions of college readiness, skill development, course-taking opportunity, and more -- with particular focus on making these insights *actionable* for college success
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A paragraph describing the size and comprehensiveness of the course-taking data, which can be found in full on page 3 of the linked Call for Research Proposals document.
This year, we are soliciting projects focused on generating actionable insights from the immense wealth of high school course-taking data that students submit through our platform each year. To illustrate with some general numbers...
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A screenshot of the title page of the Common App Call for Research Proposals, AY 2025-2026. The Executive Summary and main requirements for the Letter of Intent are visible. Exact text can be found at the link in the main post.
🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
This tarriffs strategy feels like the foreign trade equivalent of injecting ourselves with bleach to fight an infection and so at least he's being consistent
05.04.2025 00:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
27.03.2025 02:51 — 👍 5466 🔁 2345 💬 64 📌 73This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
05.03.2025 20:43 — 👍 82 🔁 47 💬 5 📌 1Many thanks to all who engaged in the process -- hoping to make the most of this responsibility and excited to give back to an organization that has been such a home for me for so long!!! Looking forward to seeing many of you soon in DC!
04.03.2025 21:48 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A golden age for sure (besides everything on fire)
04.03.2025 12:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If this works as well as they say, cross-language work is about to become SOOO much easier
04.03.2025 00:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just released: New research from Common App tracking 786,000 STEMM-interested college applicants and their ensuing degrees via rich Common App-NSC data. @sarah-nolan.bsky.social does a *phenomenal* job digging into some much-needed nuance on this front via clever viz and thoughtful analyses!
03.03.2025 16:29 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Quick intro: I'm an education researcher who currently leads the data science and research team at Common App, a national platform for college applications in the U.S.
Follow me for: deep dives into college data, computational social science (especially NLP), and all things R and data viz!
Once more unto the breach!
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