I'm teaching the 7th year of my grad class in Computational Social Science: AI, Data, and Society. From observational analyses to experiments to ethics to applying ML.
14 papers, a mix of cutting-edge and modern classics
🌐 Course webpage: https://t.co/rcqYQHhHze
📰 Papers 👇 /n
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Université de Montréal
Data Science or Causal Inference.
Great job, fantastic city, ultra-nice colleagues!
DM or email me with any questions (ex: about French teaching req)
Please apply!
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Key findings https://t.co/RSt1sgfwN7
-Viewership of potentially harmful alternative/extremist YouTube channels heavily concentrated among subscribers
-Viewers frequently come from off-platform sources
-Algorithmic recs from normal content rare
-"Rabbit hole" patterns very rare
Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
🚨📄 out now in @nature@ScientificData with @tylersimko:
https://t.co/R5wDlCyUUM
We introduce LocalView: a comprehensive dataset of over 100,000 real-time U.S. local government public meeting videos from 1,000+ localities (and counting). 🧵 1/5
Interested in causal inference? I updated my course last year and have posted the course materials online. If you're teaching a causal inference course, please feel free to steal my lecture notes! https://t.co/fgSxhzGsnR
Reviewers often have very strong views about when an experiment is "too abstract", without much evidence to back it up
New in @AJPS_Editor: @ryan_brutger@jrenshon@dtingley@chagai_weiss and I test the consequences of abstraction in experimental design
https://t.co/pI0ylqlhap
A story that's not getting enough national attention: Here in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area for the past 13 years, the FBI and local law enforcement officials left the impression that a white girl on vacation was abducted by a 16-year-old black dude who did evil things to her. 1/
📢Sending out an SOS to all pollsters / social scientists: Want to know whether the SCOTUS decision will change abortion opinion in the US? We set up a fully-funded survey project to find out. Then the leak happened. PLEASE READ 🧵 AND SHARE
Our new research on how people come to view potentially harmful YouTube channels - new research with @annie_y_chen, @JasonReifler, @RERobertson, &
@bowlinearl https://t.co/VfcOUkSZ9t
Featured in today's NYT On Tech newsletter by @ShiraOvide https://t.co/EOex8qXd6Y
I am looking for a postdoc! (ideally starting Fall 2022) Particularly interested in CSS researchers with a strong technical background who want to work on online social movements and/or misinformation. For more details: https://t.co/jDC9cxRiAk