Researcher @UNGlobalPulse. Interested in mobility, migration / forced displacement, alternative big data sources, and digital trust. Opinions are my own.
ACM COMPASS is back! A virtual conference at the intersection of sustainable development and technology -- 28 June -02 July 2021. Check out the call for papers/posters here: https://t.co/CYKntwbsQ7 #SDGs#InternationalDevelopment#HCI4D#ICT4D#COMPASS21
Announcing the 2021 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. #SICSS is for grad students, post-docs & beginning faculty. Free for participants. @chris_bail and I are happy to tell you about all 20 locations. https://t.co/wolhtZIMc5 [thread]
Need a distraction from the current state of 🤯🤢🤬?
Have you used Facebook to recruit research subjects🤳? Please fill out our short survey below ✍️- and sign up to get the results: https://t.co/GTLQ1W6uvL
cc: @khof312@ParrishB@chiccorampazzo@mmildenberger
@ChenshuoSun@hu_xiyang@MarkHu33309492 in that sense I do agree that constructing features and setting up the ML problem properly is very important! And often what takes the most time.
@ChenshuoSun@MarkHu33309492@hu_xiyang Agreed that creativity is important! But I think one of the most important applied skills is mapping the problem you want to address to the data you have. This requires domain expertise and listening to the client, + the technical skill to develop the right solution.
@nomadj1s Think it depends on what you're trying to do (lit seems to have grown a lot in different directions), but I've found helpful summaries + links to recent papers here: https://t.co/r3HVlzHs6X and here: https://t.co/knlZQGReQ5 https://t.co/GSvPVlf0hD
The KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping brings together a community of researchers and decision-makers to tackle challenges in humanitarian actions. The submission deadline is 5/20, 11:59 pm PDT. https://t.co/9aNmaXZxaM @neilsgaikwad @TheRealShankar@rhodiuslin@DaltonLunga
Writing tip about robustness checks.
1/ first express the specific concern the reader may have about your findings, then 2/ present an idea that motivates an approach of addressing it, & only then 3/ describe what your check actually is & what you find.
Better #parking is the future of e-#scooters in cities and Parisians❤️🛴! A summary of the work that @BirdRide is doing to understand and encourage good parking in the city. cc @lwsamson@emmaboon https://t.co/a2mV9RZM8Q https://t.co/7YNY4Oio3C
I spent months reading about machine learning for causal inference, trying to understand the difference between causal and descriptive or predictive models. TL;DR:
We are looking for participants for our research projects on social cohesion! Apply to participate in our @BIGSSS_Bremen summer school in Groningen!
Funded by @VolkswagenSt
https://t.co/HrElnaxbWA
Please retweet!