Kai Matheson

heart-forward question-asker | into communities, cities, & systems | doing data stuff @AccentureFed | formerly @Harvard @Vassar | views = my own | they/them

[Data & Society @datasociety]

A patchwork of data points reveals an often invisible working class of older gig workers who see the work as a lifeline — or a last resort. As @restofworld reports, it’s a demographic that’s expected to grow in the coming decades. https://t.co/w9zYNT8c0a

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

15. Gaza (2023 - 2024) 🇵🇸

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate. My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity.

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

To create high-quality outputs, you need high-quality inputs.

Here are my recommended resources for levelling up in geospatial data science:

[DC Public Library @dcpl]

The library will always love you.

[The ADHD Academic @theADHDacademic]

"As long as lack of access to healthcare, education, representation — or just not being able to afford the diagnosis — are issues, people will have to rely on self-diagnosis," @AdultingADHD in this great article about #ADHD. Definitely worth reading.
https://t.co/cjGAf1Lx2c

[Kai Matheson @mathematikai]

it's that time of year!

[Quan Le 🗞️ @qlquanle]

https://t.co/BorpSFFryy re-upping our guide to econ predocs from 2020 for this year's application season, made with @tsaocaro @ColyElhai @mathematikai 1/n

[Cameron @world_on_a_wire]

Accommodating depression: A student struggling with major depression fell off the face of the earth for a few weeks. They resurfaced and asked if they could make up the work they missed. I said of course. They were confused. "Will I get points marked off?" 1/5

[Kai Matheson @mathematikai]

@jpowerj 💓💓

[Elaine Turville @ElaineKTurville]

Love seeing our teams reconnecting in person! @AccentureFed #USDA

[Kai Matheson @mathematikai]

My strong belief, weakly held, about econ theory & pure math 👉👈😳

[Andrew Hundt 😷💉x6 @athundt]

The Ethical AI Problem

[Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough]

I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Montgomery County Planning Board public hearings and then asked it to write a public hearing transcript of its own. Here is the first page.

[Kai Matheson @mathematikai]

@82_Streetcar you could use the districtr tool to draw a community out of census block groups! then it can be shared as a link or exported as pdf, csv, shp, etc. -- csv would allow you to aggregate them and do some cool analysis/visualization https://t.co/wbBnovGiEh

[Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough]

Part of why the popular narrative on redlining has been so popular is that it has allowed people to blame an external factor (like HOLC maps) rather than recognizing that a wide range of systems were inherently racist, and many continue to be racist. https://t.co/p8a44NVmAa

[Kai Matheson @mathematikai]

@SeasonIncarnate yay autumn!!! mazel tov!!

[Kai Matheson @mathematikai]

@FranBuntman @SociologyGWU It was so nice talking with you! Thank you!

[John N.Friedman @John_N_Friedman]

Very happy to be part of the new PREDOC consortium, whose website just launched today

https://t.co/5RS5d3ZFtc

A great new resource for students interested in pathways to doctoral programs in Economics, and hopefully this is just the start

[Sebastián Puerta @SeabassDoor]

URM (particularly Black) potential applicants: I am happy to chat if you have any questions, need advice on your application, or just want a pep talk! DM me.

Our lab needs to be better at combatting anti-Blackness in social science. I want to do my part to help.

[Opportunity Insights @OppInsights]

📣Applications for OI's fall round of predoc hiring are now open!

Please visit our job posting for more information: https://t.co/sNTNBrcli9

[Dominic Russel @DomRussel]

Today Facebook released FULLY OPEN social connectedness data (https://t.co/4Xe0TjTN7N). I’ve been really fortunate to contribute to this effort working for @stroebel_econ and Theresa Kuchler.

A few examples in Europe (https://t.co/QigGopbxKR) showing how cool the data are 1/7