Fan Chen

data scientist @google | ads measurement | social networks | genomics

[Political Communication 📓 @polcommjournal]

📣Out now: New work from @yinizhang2011 @ftrevorc & @JosephineLukito on network amplification on Twitter! The paper examined how elites amplify politicized information and how this varies based on
partisan identity of the influencer.
Read here: https://t.co/UnOJnrTNBi

[Fan Chen @ftrevorc]

"As someone who studies Twitter data, should I start using Twitter?" --a statistician friend

[Mick W@tson ↙️ @BioMickWatson]

"We seeking a hard working post-doc..."

[Fan Chen @ftrevorc]

@karlrohe so interesting! I use principal component regression everyday now

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

the best matrix movie ever!

[Karl Rohe @karlrohe]

The mathemagics of PCA

[Karl Rohe @karlrohe]

an alternative way to imagine PCA:

[Karl Rohe @karlrohe]

Graduate school is a dangerously vulnerable place

this vulnerability can enable tremendous growth

choose your community and your mentors carefully. Be kind to yourself and each other

Mentors, it is an honor to support people in this stage. and this is painfully easy to forget.

[Women in Statistics and Data Science @WomenInStat]

I’m going to begin today with a bold claim: Being an applied statistician is a lot like being an ethnographer.

[Fan Chen @ftrevorc]

@kinjean #AAdvantage40th

[Fan Chen @ftrevorc]

Looks like I am doing an excellent job in the end (of my PhD) 😃

[Karl Rohe @karlrohe]

to do good research, you must first be confused

[China Daily @ChinaDaily]

Would you want your whole face to be seen while wearing a #mask? Brazilian artist Jorge Silva Roriz paints parts of customers' faces onto white protective masks, ensuring that details like facial hair color and skin tone would be closely matched to his customers' faces.

[Sharon Li @SharonYixuanLi]

Suffering from overconfident softmax scores? Time to use energy scores!

Excited to release our NeurIPS paper on "Energy-based Out-of-distribution Detection", a theoretically motivated framework for OOD detection. 1/n

Paper: https://t.co/0DOLbUR8D5 (w/ code included)

[Karl Rohe @karlrohe]

A stat-graph problem! answer might be trivial? Suppose a two block stochastic blockmodel on n nodes that is below the reconstruction threshold. an oracle puts every node into one of n/k "pre-groups" of k nodes. no group has nodes in both blocks. can you reconstruct? idk.

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

The third phase of the ENCODE project presents an online registry of over 1,200,000 human and mouse candidate functional elements that regulate genes, and the findings are presented in a collection of papers. See the collection here. https://t.co/jUw3oW5sWh

[ASA Science Policy @ASA_SciPol]

American Statistical Association Board issues Statement on President Trump’s Memorandum Regarding the Decennial Census calling "for this administration to allow the US Census Bureau career professionals to conduct a fair & impartial census and ..." @CountOnStats @AmstatNews

[Genome Biology @GenomeBiology]

SURF: from @fchen365 and @SunduzKeles, Statistical Utility for RBP Functions, a method for joint analysis of CLIP-seq and RNA-seq data. It uses annotation of alternative exon usage and similar events to predict functional roles for RNA binding proteins https://t.co/HfOHhdIaZR

[UW-Madison L&S @UWMadisonLS]

Congratulations to Eric Wilcots, who's been named Dean of @UWMadisonLS. He's the first African American to hold the position, and we couldn't be happier to move forward under his energy and leadership. @uwmadison https://t.co/Er7ECwqyJn #WeAreLS

[Daniela Witten @daniela_witten]

Can someone please tell me what game John Ioannidis is playing, and also, what are the rules?

[Fan Chen @ftrevorc]

@undercoverkanye Same...