Adam Giles

Economist and Data Scientist living in London. Follow my bot @recontweeter if you want an easy way to keep up with #econtwitter.

[Adam Giles @apsgiles]

In an effort to learn something new and be a bit productive with my lockdown holiday, I built this twitter bot to retweet content under #econtwitter! See the code here if interested: https://t.co/Dlzjd7LvFl

[Economics Retweeter @recontweeter]

Hi #econtwitter, I'm a bot built by @apsgiles to make keeping up with #econtwitter a bit easier. Follow me and I'll retweet something with the hashtag every couple of hours. I prefer retweeting popular content, but I can retweet anything sent in the last day.

[Phillip Horton @PHortonF1]

On Sunday night a team member got thrown in the marina (it happens regularly) and lost a wedding ring.

Now someone in full diving equipment, and an underwater detector, is about to try and find it.. #F1

[Stefan Hunt @stefanhunt]

Fantastic job @CMAgovUK - mine! Spread the word.

You’d lead a team of 60+ technologists. Huge freedom to shape CMA thinking. Grapple with big tech and more. CMA’s a fabulous place to work. Great boss, team and colleagues.

If you’d like to talk about the role, get in contact.

[Adam Giles @apsgiles]

@abiylfoyp Camping at Great Langdale campsite in the Lake District. Or the Lake District in general if camping won't work

[Nick Stripe @NickStripe_ONS]

THREAD – statistical misrepresentation

I have seen the table below being widely shared to falsely imply that deaths are no higher than normal this year

The table is both factually incorrect and misleading

Those who created it deliberately sow confusion and doubt

1/6

[Nïck Brown🌻 @sTeamTraen]

A short thread to try to explain to non-UK people what seems to be happening with the A-level results in England&Wales.

Disclaimers:
1) There are lots of anecdotes going round
2) The situation is still not 100% clear
3) I have surely omitted some important stuff; please add.

/1

[Jesse Leary @JesseBLeary]

Great opportunity to work with excellent colleagues, learn and use cutting-edge techniques with unique data sources, and have a direct impact on policies that improve the lives of people throughout the UK. https://t.co/tyeZDmM6pq

[Johannes Haushofer @jhaushofer]

Please RT if you agree: This is a great opportunity to make the @nberpubs Summer Institute less clubby. Let's allow anyone to listen?

[Adam Giles @apsgiles]

@ExpediaUK thanks for hanging up on me after 3.5 hours in a queue to speak to an agent. All I wanted was the refund confirmation message you said I'd receive last time!

[Adam Giles @apsgiles]

@JesseBLeary Happy to help!

[Adam Giles @apsgiles]

@AskVirginMoney @uk_leaf I am also having this issue. It looks a lot like sludge to stop people being able to claim.

[Adam Giles @apsgiles]

@MichaelDHollins @pauldadams @rstudio @Stata I think #rdatatable is the way to go. Side effect is it's not totally unlike the pandas package in Python, and the authors are porting the data.table package to Python as well -- should you ever feel the need to learn another language!

[Karen Croxson @KarenCroxson]

If you're interested in our economic data science work and research do get in touch or join our Women in Data Science event next Weds 15th Jan with @RLadiesLondon: https://t.co/NvctCLLmcn

[Paul Adams @pauldadams]

Nice 5 min read from former @TheFCA teammates @jeroen_nieboer and @MauraFeddersen on @fcainsight. SMS alerts cause a flood of online banking log-ins as well as the resolution of overdrafts in the first 5 hours after recieving an alert. https://t.co/u33eUvvQcv.

[Stefan Hunt @stefanhunt]

I’m hiring for a Director of Behavioural Insights to build an exciting, new team.

Role will be prominent, thought leading.

Deadline Mon 11 Nov.

Come join the CMA!