Super excited to announce my new book "Spatial Statistics for Data Science: Theory and Practice with R" Completed chapters 👉 paulamoraga.com/book-spatial/ Feedback welcome! 💻#rstats 🗺️#rspatial ✨#gischat 📊#RINLA 📈#datascience 🌍#dataviz 🌈#epitwitter 🌿#ecology 📕#statistics

ICYMI: Urban/Housing PPL 📣 The FHFA has a new tract-level repeat-sales housing price index (1989-2021) with >65,000 tracts using data from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CoreLogic county recorder files, and FHA mortgages fhfa.gov/PolicyPrograms…

Second tigeRs meetup done! Thanks to Zachary Bleemer for presenting methods to digitize historical ed records w #rstats. 38 folks from Soc, Econ, Pub Pol, Demog, Psych, Ed, Libraries. 📌 Zach’s code: zacharybleemer.com/software Sponsored by Princeton Data-Driven Social Science Initiative + coorganized w Kim Kreiss✨!

Day 29 of #30DayMapChallenge is Population, so naturally I'll turn to tidycensus and #rstats for the data! This map shows population change (%) by county between 2021 and 2022, with data taken from the U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates This data isn't on the Census API any

A new method for using individual-level race probabilities to estimate differences in outcomes by race, from Cory McCartan, Robin Fisher, Jacob Goldin, Daniel E. Ho, and Kosuke Imai nber.org/papers/w32373

Our article on racial coalitions is published with page numbers (and open access). We improved existing MRP models to estimate voteshares by race and by district (/thread) and thanks to Daily Kos for the perfect cartograms

For the next half-century, that word—“ protection”—would define the governing philosophy of Southlake and suburban communities like it across America. Years later, it would be enshrined in the Carroll school district’s official motto: “Protect the Tradition.”

I've used Quarto/LaTeX to write my last couple of solo papers but those were short and light. Doing a longer one and dang it's nice.

Just received the final proofs of my forthcoming article on desegregation and racial attitudes/politics. Timing is incredible, with the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board decision happening this week! Find it as a pre-print here: direct.mit.edu/edfp/article/d…

NEW POSTDOC AT New York University IPK Cities, Communities, and Social Infrastructure. Open to applicants with PhDs in the social sciences, humanities, public policy, and design fields. We're reviewing applications now. Please share. ASA Sociology apply.interfolio.com/153600

It's release day for the 2023 U.S. Census Bureau 1-year American Community Survey data! tidycensus users in #rstats users can get the data *right now* with the arguments `survey = "acs1"` and `year = 2023`; it *just works*, there is nothing new to install! walker-data.com/tidycensus

New working paper on the emerging use of AI among online survey participants: Focusing on open-ended Qs, we study how often and why survey-takers use AI. We also compare human vs LLM written answers to sensitive questions. 🔗: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Bittersweet part about graduating is I don't get to organize fun R events with Angela Li 🐘 @[email protected] anymore :( But for Princeton University grad students, especially those in Princeton School of Public & International Affairs check out the R group website to see past materials and upcoming events! princeton-r-group.github.io