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We have three open positions at the moment, all with May 3 deadlines: theijf.org/careers

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Nice! nytimes.com/interactive/20…

What happens when you have a Tasmanian mother in law.

After 11 years Monica and I have finally reunified our book collection previously spread across Canada, the US and Australia. A random sample if you want to know why we are the way we are. [Many, many, more pics incoming lol]

Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors.
We summarize our findings below.
econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdp…

At a certain point one wonders what we're all doing here.

New paper led by Michael Chong on estimating the timing of stillbirths (ante- versus intrapartum), combining a wide range of data sources (which are often only a partial or biased picture) academic.oup.com/jrsssc/advance…

Great book!

The DSI at University of Toronto launched our virtual networking event for the first cohort of Data Science & Machine Learning Software Foundations Certificates. Learners connected with employers from government, healthcare, finance & business. Thanks to all participants! #UofT #datascience

Not sure that it's the *best* reason to structure your project nicely and use consistent filenames, but that HBS report suggests that'd make it easier to blame a malicious actor, like, if you ever need to do that.

📺WATCH: Last week, our Seminar Series speaker Rohan Alexander of U of T Statistical Sciences & University of Toronto Faculty of Information presented his work on improving the trustworthiness of data science and reproducibility in quantitative social sciences with LLMs. Hosted by Nisarg Shah.

youtube.com/watch?v=xd1FAz…

“Epidemiologists are the OG data scientists”

Quote of the day goes to Monica Alexander at #SERmidyearTO

Slides from today's Schwartz Reisman Institute talk: rohanalexander.com/pdfs/2024-03-0…

🧵 Canadians can now freely access over 2.6 million pages of internal government documents never before made publicly available with our newest dataset, Open By Default. Explore the huge database of internal government documents: theijf.org/open-by-default

Very happy to have reached Friday afternoon and addressed all my week's todos.... from last week :(

Two Toronto Data Workshop talks this week:
- Thu, noon, Sky CH-Wang, Columbia University 'Do Androids Know They’re Only Dreaming of Electric Sheep?'
- Fri, noon, Jacob Austin, Google DeepMind 'Resolving Code Review Comments with Machine Learning'
Sign up: forms.gle/sXbEixoa1iJR4Q…

Does anyone know of an equiv to the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape datasets but for 2024? i.e. individual level, publicly available, polling data. Chris Warshaw Shiro Kuriwaki Lynn Vavreck

Me to students: Typos destroy the credibility of your papers.
US government: Hold our beer.