Jacob LaRiviere

Senior Principal Economist @Microsoft, Affiliate Faculty in Economics @UW, Adjunct Asst Professor in Economics @UTKnoxville.

[Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna @pedrohcgs]

Some professional news: very excited to be joining @Microsoft team in Seattle in a month from now. I will spend at least the next academic year there (on leave from @VanderbiltEcon)

I am really looking forward to put all the causal inference tools into practice.

[JAERE @JaereAere]

We are excited to announce that we have two new co-editors: Tatyana Deryugina at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Jacob LaRiviere at Microsoft.

Welcome @TDeryugina and Jacob!

[Emre Kıcıman @emrek]

Calling CausalML folks: MSR AI is looking for researchers/post-docs at the intersection of causality and machine learning (incl., causal for better ML; ML for better causal methods; and applications of causalml) https://t.co/tBqI70K908 @MSFTResearch

[Grant McDermott https://bsky.app/profile/gmcd.bsy @grant_mcdermott]

McCarthy’s first rule on writing minimalism is a good reason to share one of my favourite data visualizations. Punctuation marks in "Blood Meridian" versus "Absalom, Absalom!". Figure by @neuroecology.

https://t.co/4rr5lDomjE (ht @deaneckles)

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

@susanslusser Got it. Thanks! Love your stuff!!

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

@susanslusser Don't the A's hold the tiebreaker making the magic number for home field one?

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

@MattTaddy hey should I be using your book for the UW data science and strategic pricing course this Spring (top notch undergrads and masters students from CS)? If so how do I get a instructor's copy?

[Matt Taddy @MattTaddy]

I blogged! New BDS book is coming very very soon. Getting the conversation started with some thoughts on how to make better business decisions with ML

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

@susanslusser @tjohnson1960 Is 30 ABs a big enough sample for Barreto? Why not put him in there everyday to see where he's at? What is the thinking given that it seems to contradict what BoMel was saying when he came up?

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

@mwanamak Plain text then parse works. Mechanical turk is also a resource. Might be able to do a Google scholar search and automate. Better yet: email the AEA and ask then to put thing in a JSON format via API call to make it easy for you and others.

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

@ckcarruthers Awesome. Have a blast at UM!

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Inside @Alibaba's smart warehouse, where robots do 70% of the work. @BIUK @erikbryn @amcafee

[Cole Knaflic @storywithdata]

My guiding #dataviz principles:
1. Be clear on intent
2. The right graph creates an "aha" moment
3. Don't overcomplicate
4. Get rid of the non-essential
5. Make it clear where to look
6. Words make a graph accessible
7. Audience trumps all else
#InternationalChartDay #ChartDay

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Absolutely fantastic poster outlining cognitive biases. This should be compulsory to study before studying anything else. Or registering on Twitter. Or reading anything. Pls RT

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

@cboettig Rmarkdown is awesome for HW, btw

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

@cboettig Github. Set best practices for pull requests, code collaboration, etc...

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

Electricity Rate Design for the Real World https://t.co/Ko4NZmdDWJ via @energyathaas

[Duncan Watts @duncanjwatts]

Thoughtful commentary by @5harad on bias in ML algorithms used for parole decisions https://t.co/NyUhER21L4

[WIRED @WIRED]

Microsoft's new reprogrammable computer chips are going to change everything: https://t.co/a6XpoBj7JQ

[Jacob LaRiviere @LaRiviereJS]

Clustered Into Control: Causal Impacts of Water Infrastructure Failure https://t.co/BSFz2DXIL3 via @sharethis