Molly Offer-Westort

Mastodon: @[email protected]

[JP Micozzi ⭐⭐⭐ @juanpm2002]

¡Para agendar! Este jueves, Molly Offer-Westort presenta en @CPoliticaITAM. ¡Los/as esperamos!

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

@michtorresp Wooot! Have fun!

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@DSI_UChicago @raulcfernandez @NSF Congrats @raulcfernandez!

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

@nkeleher @poverty_action 🎉 can’t wait to see what you build!

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

@monika_nalepa Thank you Monika!

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@a_strezh You are so kind!

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

Incredibly honored to join the 2024 #CarnegieFellows!

The fellowship will support my research on how people update their views and attitudes in response to the conversations they take part in and the information they engage with online.
https://t.co/AAz15OA4Qi @CarnegieCorp

[Golub Capital Social Impact Lab @GSBsiLab]

How can we promote discernment in online information sharing? A new large-scale experiment with social media users from Kenya and Nigeria, designed by @mofferw, @LeahRosenzweig, and @Susan_Athey, tests interventions to curb misinformation.

https://t.co/st5URojpq5 1/11

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

Which interventions limit the spread of COVID-19 misinformation online? A Facebook messenger experiment in Kenya and Nigeria suggests that nudges to consider information accuracy work best. @mofferw @LeahRosenzweig @Susan_Athey @GSBsiLa
https://t.co/b7xfKUE7xV

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

@StommesDrew @tara_slough Congrats! Looking forward to seeing your collaborations!

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

The 2024 syllabus for my Advanced topics Causal Inference & Machine Learning course is up! @UChicago @DSI_UChicago
https://t.co/3P6nO98aVA

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

Awesome syllabus; one of my greatest regrets of grad school is not taking a qualitative methods class.

[Paul Staniland @pstanpolitics]

The hot-off-the-presses Fall 2023 syllabus for "Qualitative Methods & Research Design" grad seminar co-taught with @carsonaust @uchicago:
https://t.co/I2O2FHoVQb

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

This is a fantastic opportunity for graduate students working in data science—across a wide range of disciplines. Info session Sept 6.

[Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute @HDSIUCSD]

Don't miss the Rising Stars in Data Science Info Session! Wed Sep 6th at 12 pm PST Application (due 9/22/23):  https://t.co/HOcxI3O3B3
More details: https://t.co/IByFMbOcuL
#postdoc #AcademicTwitter #DataScience

[LAPolMeth @LAPolMeth]

We are now accepting proposals for the 7th Latin American PolMeth meeting! #LAPolMeth

When:
📆 November 17-18, 2023

Where:
@ufpeoficial, Recife, Brazil (with a virtual option)

Deadline:
July 30 https://t.co/yDOTyr2IZh

Keynotes:
@mofferw
(Chicago) and
@NoamLupu
(Vanderbilt)

[Susan Athey @Susan_Athey]

Incorporating insights from the machine learning/causal inference literature into adaptive experimentation improves performance. Our new paper in #AIStats2023:

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

@JaeJaeykim2 Also we would all be doing ourselves a favor by documenting which versions of R packages we're using in a given project (I also don't systematically do this).

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

@JaeJaeykim2 groundhog and never use tidyverse.

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

@Matt__Graham @JaeJaeykim2 Mostly just base r for variable creation and selective indexing. I admit that aggregate is inferior to group_by, summarize, and I do use dplyr, but try to be selective in which packages I use for specific tasks (dplyr, lubridate) rather than loading in tidyverse as a whole.

[Jacob Montgomery (@jacobmontgomery.bsky.social) @Jacob_Montg]

Re-posting this for the weekday crowd.

Come hang out with us at WUSTL.

(And don't be afraid to call yourself a "data scientist." We invite applications from people with a huge variety of skills and interests. If you're not sure --- apply and find out!)

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

@soashworth @Andrew___Baker I agree, I find it useful as a thesaurus: how can I rewrite this paragraph so that it's more clear, uses less jargon? Even getting bad suggestions makes the rewriting process easier—and sometimes the suggestions are good.