1/n Are you a *complete beginner* in computational social science who wants to learn how to code? I'm happy to announce our new "coding bootcamp" video tutorials for the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science: compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institu…

"Sociologica" asked noted scholars to contribute to an issue on “Heuristics of Discovery” by telling how they come to work on the problems they do. Abbott, Bearman @Paul_Dimaggio, Fourcade, Swedberg, Eric Klinenberg gave diverse, insightful & brief answers sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/713

"A huge reason that our politics is not so extremely polarised and so far out there is because we no longer have Murdoch-owned press in New Zealand, and it's never taken a foothold," said David Cormack, former head of policy and comms for the Green party. bit.ly/31pUI7o

Interactive analysis needs theories of inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/10/23/int…

We are SO proud of Editors Nina Bandelj, D. Tomaskovic-Devey, Bruno Amable, @juliaflynch, Patrick Emmenegger & Chief Editor Gregory Jackson for making Socio-Economic Review a vital journal of the highest caliber. Hooray, too, for the SER advisory board, editorial board, and reviewers!

I'm looking for some references on continuous, safe deployment of statistical/ML models in production. Particularly interested in the model evaluation piece -- how do you know when a new model is good enough to replace an old one, and can you trust an automated decision here?

FACTS about counting votes: -Ballots are counted after Election Day in every single state -No state certifies a winner on Election night -In 18 states ballots can arrive after Election Day per state law -In 29 states military ballots can be received after Election Day

100,000 voters in North Carolina requested ballots but haven't voted yet - a big margin that could swing the election. Sign up to help these voters cast their ballot in time. Last push, make it count: tinyurl.com/VSANCCure

NEW #openaccess #COVID19 research just in time for #Election2020. Check out "Pandemic Politics: Political Worldviews and COVID-19 Beliefs and Practices in an Unsettled Time" by @hs329 Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social and @GCristinaMora today! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

I’m recruiting a student for the Counseling Psychology or Cognitive Neuroscience PhD program at Colorado State University this fall. Focus on alcohol and cannabis co-use and the gut brain axis. Email or DM me for more info! Please share! #AcademicTwitter

Friends: the PyData Chicago CFP is open! pydata.org/chicago2016/cf… Me: time to write a proposal

TS Eliot rejecting Orwell's Animal Farm, because he thought the pigs *were* more equal than others.

blog forum on data analytics and inclusivity, part 1 w/responses by @BMMillsy, sekou, and Laura K. Nelson | @[email protected] orgtheory.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/for…

#OpenJustice is a new transparency initiative spotlighting California criminal justice data/ openjustice.doj.ca.gov

The feeling when you realize the robots will steal your job by Denham Sadler

tidycensus, my #rstats package for getting U.S. Census Bureau data along with simple feature geometry, is now on CRAN: walkerke.github.io/tidycensus/