Join us for the first ever Data4Good Festival for a weekend of fun data science learning, exciting talks, insightful workshops and cool prizes. ⏰ April 19-21, 2024 Who can join: bachelor students across Europe Travel allowance to Berlin are available 👉 data4good.ai

Using the reframing of "the Algorithm" to "the Apparatus" should shape how we evaluate what it is/does open.substack.com/pub/drewdimmer…

Welcome to Hertie, Drew Dimmery ! 🤝 The Hertie School Data Science Lab Professor of Data Science for the Common Good begins teaching today. "Algorithms, code and machine learning are an increasingly large part of how our world works. I'm excited to empower students to understand these topics!"

Really nice piece by Justin Sandefur worth reading. I particularly found the history of making the case very interesting: asteriskmag.com/issues/05/pepf…

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Join us in forecasting the next federal election, and in finding out what forecasts do to voters and candidates! Plus, do a PhD at the Data Science Lab in Berlin. DM me for any questions.

Great article about our research infrastructure (or lack thereof) for studying the internet thebulletin.org/2024/03/how-to…

Super cool thread on racial depolarization (what I'd call it, rather than realignment) in US politics. A bit of additional context from diving into similar data:

📆 Curious about ⁦Hertie School⁩? Join us in Berlin for our Open Day this Friday! 🤝 Visit our campus to explore our programmes, talk to our students, and get a sneak peek into our courses. Register here: hertie-school.org/en/open-day

Tired: constant marginal effects Wired: maximum marginal effects at p=0.5 Inspired: add a parameter for where marginal effects are maximized Are they not teaching the kids about scobit these days? Embarrassing

***Academic Job*** I'm hiring a post-doc (starting this fall) as part of building out a lab model re: conflict and development at Emory. Open broadly but Asia is bulk of agenda right now. ABDs & recent grads please submit apps by June 15th apply.interfolio.com/145540

New article from the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study in PNASNews (academic team led by Hunt Allcott & Gentzkow): Deactivation of FB/IG for 6 weeks before the 2020 election reduced online participation but otherwise had mostly null effects pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

To assert democratic control over large online platforms we need rigorous impact assessments like the US2020 project. This is the only way we can make sure we respond to the real societal harms they may cause.

Our polling average topline takeaway: Trump is leading in 5 of the 7 battleground states that are most likely to determine the outcome of the election, but PA, WI and MI are within a typically-sized polling error. w/ Diane Napolitano, Kati Perry & Luis Melgar washingtonpost.com/elections/inte…

Welcome #ICML2024 to Vienna! If you work on causality/CSS and want to chat, hit me up. I'm also happy to share recommendations based on a few years living here.

Welche Koalitionen könnten nach den Wahlen in Sachsen und Thüringen anstehen? Zusammengefasst: in Sachsen könnte es sehr schwer werden, eine Regierung ohne BSW zu bilden - und in Thüringen beinahe unmöglich. Auf DIE ZEIT mit simulierten Wahlausgängen: zeit.de/politik/deutsc…

How The Washington Post’s forecast will track 2024 election results Like in previous cycles we'll be running our live election model to add context to results that are coming in. But we have a few updates this year! washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

The US2020 Project was not independent (and that's good) open.substack.com/pub/drewdimmer…

RCTs are good, but not (just) because they make the statistics easy. open.substack.com/pub/drewdimmer…