Eric Dunford

research scientist, core data science @meta | former prof @McCourtSchool | PhD @GVPTUMD

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

🥳🎉Very excited to announce that tidysynth is now on CRAN! I wrote this package to make the experience of implementing a synthetic control in R less painful for my stats students. Hopefully, others find it useful too! https://t.co/07tCsg7TPS

#rstats

[Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala]

No More GIL!
the Python team has officially accepted the proposal.

Congrats @colesbury on his multi-year brilliant effort to remove the GIL, and a heartfelt thanks to the Python Steering Council and Core team for a thoughtful plan to make this a reality.

https://t.co/58QK2yctRD

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@mvazcar Oh weird! Go ahead and file a GitHub issue with a bit of example data and I’ll try and replicate the error. I’m curious if there are duplicates in just the unit and time fields. That is, removing all other vars, are there duplicates in those indices alone?

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

🥳🎉Very excited to announce that tidysynth is now on CRAN! I wrote this package to make the experience of implementing a synthetic control in R less painful for my stats students. Hopefully, others find it useful too! https://t.co/07tCsg7TPS

#rstats

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@SolomonMg @CSMaP_NYU Ah congrats! That’s great news!

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@khareemleslie Oh I appreciate it! Thanks so much for using it. Just FYI: the dev version of the package (on GitHub) is more up-to-date than the cran version (fixed a few minor bugs). So if you run into any snags, just download that version. Take care!

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@lwahedi @thosjleeper @Twitter I didn’t know about this either and had the same complaint. Thanks!

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@leahbevis Also weird! Go ahead and file an issue with a reproducible example and let's see if we can't figure out what is going on.

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@leahbevis Oh weird! I have no clue (I also don't have an M1 machine). If you're still running into this issue, do me a favor and file an issue: https://t.co/G73W5EPQjQ

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@leahbevis Correct! This doesn't exist in the current implementation of either package, but I'd be really interested in what a feature like this might look like. Go ahead, fork the package, implement what you're thinking, generate a pull-request and if it works, let's add it to the package!

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@leahbevis Hi @leahbevis! Thanks for reaching out and sorry for the delayed response. Ironically, I don't monitor my SM accounts much. So great question! Unfortunately, your best bet is the Abadie et al 2010 paper for specifics on the optimization procedure.

[C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk]

OK, tried out a new unit in my intro to philosophy class, and it is my new favorite unit: "Are Grades Bullshit?"

I have never seen intro students more intensely engaged, more edge-of-their-seat, and more mind-blown.

Thread:

[Davis Vaughan @dvaughan32]

I'm excited to announce {ivs}, a new #rstats package for working with intervals (like date ranges)!
- Merge overlapping intervals
- Determine how two intervals relate (precedes, follows, overlaps)
- Works with any comparable object
And much more!
https://t.co/Qdb9GMxhrg

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@jaredamcdonald @MaryWash @UMW_PSIA Ah that’s great news! Congratulations!

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@devon_cantwell Given no one has mentioned it yet: @thomasp85’s tidygraph package is really a thing of beauty and abstracts away most of the cumbersome logic of packages like igraph. Definitely worth exploring especially if you’re dealing with data formatting issues: https://t.co/6Fu4Al9pse

[Tiago Ventura @_Tiagoventura]

Now that all is sorted & signed, I have some professional news to share. 🚨

I’ll be joining @McCourtSchool @Georgetown in Fall’ 23 as an Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science, and before that, I will have the amazing opportunity to be a postdoc at @CSMaP_NYU 🎉🥳🍾

[Tivadar Danka @TivadarDanka]

Entropy is not the easiest thing to understand.

It is rumored to describe something about information and disorder, but it is unclear why.

What do logarithms and sums have to do with the concept of information?

Let me explain!

↓ A thread. ↓

[Eric Dunford @dunford_e]

@_danigilbert Arnold is missing from this list: Commando, True Lies, Eraser (hostage taking isnt central to the “plot” but still a ton of fun) Also don’t forget Ransom with Mel Gibson and Proof of Life with Russell Crowe.

[Eugenia Giraudy @EugeniaGiraudy]

We are looking to hire a postdoctoral candidate in Computational Social Science to work with us on our Data for Good projects. Feel free to reach out to me directly or apply here: https://t.co/UHV4S2Qnbm

[Chris Tokita @ChrisTokita]

Our paper is out in @PNASNews (w/ @andyguess, C. Tarnita):

Using a model & Twitter data, we show that polarized news coverage can lead people to unwittingly sort their social networks along political lines, even w/o knowing their friends' politics! 1/🧵⬇️ https://t.co/PMcabTrWI2

[Ashton Anderson @ashton1anderson]

Thrilled to share our paper, out today in @nature, which proposes a new paradigm for the analysis of online platforms and applies it to study political polarization over the complete history of Reddit
w/ @isaacwaller
Paper: https://t.co/5OtxbcH31W
🧵1/n

[Tiago Ventura @_Tiagoventura]

Our paper "The Effect of Streaming Chat on Perceptions of Political Debates" is out at @Journal_Of_Comm

The paper has everything that I love about research: cool methods triangulation (field exp. + text) + new and relevant topic + great collab. work

Hope you enjoy reading it!