Thank you DataCamp for helping make the transition to online learning MUCH easier! My students are beyond excited to have access to so much great content.

The FAA approved the first U.S. drone flights without a hands-on operator, a move that could expand commercial applications on.wsj.com/3bJQGN6

FAA approves the first fully automated commercial drone flights, letting Massachusetts-based American Robotics operate its drones in rural areas below 400 feet (Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/articles/faa-a… techmeme.com/210115/p30#a21…

The Miller Prize for the best Political Analysis article published in 2020 goes to Reagan Mozer, Luke Miratrix, Aaron R Kaufman, and Ιάσων Αναστασόπουλος for their work on matching with text data. Congrats! polmeth.org/miller-prize

Check out this cool study, EdWorks working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai21-493 on using machine scoring techniques to score young children's argumentative writing in a RCT study. Thanks to my amazing collaborators Luke Miratrix Jackie Eunjung Relyea Reagan Mozer

Recently it became official: Reagan Mozer, Shireen Al-Adeimi and I got our IES grant on RCTs and text data, on our 3rd try. (1st: not even to review. They like, WTF??? 2nd: reviewers not impressed with our kitchen sink approach. 3rd: we simplified, refined... & made it!) 💜‼️🙏

Excited to share a new publication in Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior using NLP tools to examine race-based differences in manner-of-death classifications across the U.S. Check it out below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sl…

With a new #IESfunded #NCER award on text analysis for randomized trials, Drs. Mozer (Reagan Mozer), Al-Adeimi (Shireen Al-Adeimi), and Miratrix (Luke Miratrix) will build tools to help ease the burdens of using text as an outcome in education field trials. ies.ed.gov/funding/grants…

I'm hiring a 1yr postdoc for research on stat methodology for using text in randomized controlled trials: apply.interfolio.com/123767 Please don't self-select out! Long list of papers & "elite" schools aren't required. I'll read every application looking for potential. Please repost.

Check out this terrific new study on using machine learning tools to score young children's writing by Reagan Mozer Bentley Rubinstein Bentley University and Luke Miratrix Joshua Gilbert journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/10…