Ryan I Davis

[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

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[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

It’s the hope that kills you. #GoSpursGo

[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

It’s the hope that kills you. #GoSpursGo

[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

It’s the hope that kills you. #GoSpursGo

[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

@onescottwilson @tweetsfromstar @kevinwildes @getnickwright

[Brian Heseung Kim @brhkim]

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 as much as 5-10x -- without sacrificing the transparency, rigor, or reproducibility demanded by our core scientific principles. 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, unfortunately very expensive!)
https://t.co/XiPXA6a3jG

DAAF explicitly embraces the fact that LLM-based research assistants will never be perfect and can never be trusted as a matter of course. But by providing strict guardrails, enforcing best practices, and ensuring the highest levels of auditability possible, DAAF ensures that LLM research assistants can still be immensely valuable for critically-minded researchers capable of verifying and reviewing their work. In energetic and vocal opposition to deeply misguided attempts to replace human researchers, DAAF is intended to be a force-multiplying "exo-skeleton" for human researchers (i.e., firmly keeping humans-in-the-loop).

The base framework comes ready out-of-the-box to analyze any or all of the 40+ foundational public education datasets available via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal (https://t.co/Nc2f7ibUil), and is readily extensible to new data domains and methodologies with a suite of built-in tools to ingest new data sources and craft new Skill files at will!

With DAAF, you can go from a research question to a shockingly nuanced research report with sections for key findings, data/methodology, and limitations, as well as bespoke data visualizations, with only five minutes of active engagement time, plus the necessary time to fully review and audit the results (see my 10-minute video demo here: https://t.co/dC4n2BzTcM). To that crucial end of facilitating expert human validation, all projects come complete with a fully reproducible, documented analytic code pipeline and consolidated analytic notebooks for exploration. Then: request revisions, rethink measures, conduct new sub-analyses, run robustness checks, and even add additional deliverables like interactive dashboards, policymaker-focused briefs, and more -- all with just a quick ask to Claude. And all of this can be done *in parallel* with multiple projects simultaneously.

By open-sourcing DAAF under the GNU LGPLv3 license as a forever-free and open and extensible framework, I hope to provide a foundational resource that the entire community of researchers and data scientists can use, benefit from, learn from, and extend via critical conversations and collaboration together. By pairing DAAF with an intensive array of educational materials, tutorials, blog deep-dives, and videos via project documentation and the DAAF Field Guide Substack (https://t.co/XBB6G5nAMs – MUCH more to come!), I also hope to rapidly accelerate the readiness of the scientific community to genuinely and critically engage with AI disruption and transformation writ large.

I don't want to oversell it: DAAF is far from perfect (much more on that below!). But it is already extremely useful, and my intention is that this is the worst that DAAF will ever be from now on given the rapid pace of AI progress and (hopefully) community contributions from here. More than anything, I just hope all of this work can somehow be useful for my many peers and colleagues trying to "catch up" to this rapidly developing (and extremely scary) frontier. It's a wild time, but we need as many people informed and at the table together as possible.

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!
https://t.co/VS6P2DYE7M

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!
https://t.co/cZ1qWa2IxK

So there it is. I am absolutely as surprised and concerned as you are, believe me. With all that in mind, I would *love* to hear what you think, what your questions are, what you’re seeing if you try testing it out, and absolutely every single critical thought you’re willing to share, so we can learn on this frontier together. Thanks for reading and engaging earnestly!

[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

@EN_HQflyhigh You dropped this: 👑

[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

@SheaSerrano I’d swap out Barkley for the reverse Kobe dunk, but the rest are great.

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

In what universe does a 60 million dollar opening for an original studio movie warrant this headline?

[Baldur's Gate 3 @baldursgate3]

Patch 8 is now live on PC, Mac, PS5, and Xbox!

🎮 Cross-Play
🆕 12 Subclasses
📷 Photo Mode
👥 Xbox Series S Split Screen
🛠️ Modding Toolkit Update
🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

Read the full patch notes for our final major patch: https://t.co/4bESTVVdH6

[Zach Lowe @ZachLowe_NBA]

Good morning. Time to knock the rust off.

[Brian Heseung Kim @brhkim]

We are once again looking for a Senior Data Scientist on my team! Everything I wrote below remains true, and I'd love for any referrals you all might know for thoughtful, committed, and excited education researchers. New job posting link is here: https://t.co/GMDgP5mo81

[ErnestBorgnineNavalCapDoff.jpeg @poddtadre]

Probably a sign your team is not in great shape when your local broadcast is showing graphics like this.

[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

Hey guys, I got a great idea…. Let’s walk Mookie and just take our chances. Lmao

[rob @subwaybae]

It’s so hard being young and fun

[𝔍𝔞𝔢 𝔚𝔞𝔶𝔫𝔢 @EandnotY]

Y’all remember when Chadwick Boseman appeared looking a lot skinner than he used to be and then everyone started making fun of him only to find out that he had cancer and you guys promised to stop making fun of people’s bodies in situations like this? Yeah…

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

we’re not counting any pre-merger championships y’all have the ‘80s ones the 2008 one and the 2024 one and that’s it

[Wario64 @Wario64]

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Deck verified/playable

[Ryan I Davis @RyanIDavis]

@ZachLowe_NBA Just listened to your latest podcast. Great work other than a small note: Rasheed Wallace did win a title in 2004 with the Pistons.

[Brian Heseung Kim @brhkim]

Hi all -- we're back at it again! My team at Common App is now hiring for a 21-month, grant-funded Research Scientist position! This is perfect for a graduating PhD candidate or exceptional Master's graduate with strong quant chops in higher ed research
https://t.co/8rZWlrAHtW