RIP to one of the greats. They All Laughed remains my favorite NYC movie.

Perfect example here of the difference between good polling, by YouGov, and poor/frankly irresponsible polling (and journalism), by Reuters and Ipsos.

Can’t complain about this desk relocation

Wow - awesome update/expansion of previous Pew study on the topic of political tweeters. Great to see Pew Research Center continuing to work through difficult measurement problems in a rigorous way!

New working paper! "Estimating the Value of Offsite Data to Advertisers on Meta," with Nils Wernerfelt, Anna Tuchman & Robert Moakler We ask, "how much would it hurt advertising efficiency if Meta couldn't use 3rd party data for ad targeting?" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Our paper on community gifting groups on Facebook is out! We used de-identified data from Facebook Groups to study local gift-giving communities, specifically buy nothing (BN) groups. These communities allow people to share, reduce waste, and connect to their local community.

Molly Ringwald's memoir of working with Godard on King Lear, this week in The New Yorker, is essential reading—it's cinematic in itself, with a view of an unmade film that, while reading about it, I felt like I was seeing: newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

As in many of these campus conflict stories, the villains here are the college administrators, who seem completely incompetent and maybe like actual legal liabilities nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/…

📢🚨 New paper Patrick Y. Wu, Joshua Tucker, Jonathan Nagler & me 🚨 1. We show vast knowledge embedded in LLMs (#ChatGPT) can be used for latent measurement (ideology). 2. Correlated but distinct from existing methods. 3. Extensible to new probs. x.com/PatrickYWu/sta…

New foundational research on the effectiveness of digital advertising: faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/stadelis/Learn… Proud of my colleagues who contributed to this work!

70mm is back in the Emerald City

We just release a new analysis the highlights the potential of opt-in surveys -- those that allow people to volunteer to participate -- to provide misleading results, especially for young adults and Hispanics pewrsr.ch/49BMhqF

that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art?

If you’re at all concerned with public safety in Seattle, you should listen closely to the new Seattle Nice conversation with Scott Lindsay, former mayoral public safety advisor and (until recently) Deputy City Attorney under Ann Davision. The senior folks in the Wilson

You can just research things. New from Joshua Tucker & me at The Brookings Institution: Coding agents like Claude Code and Codex will likely accelerate research AND undermine institutional structures we built to support it.