📚🚨 I posted 11 new chapters of my upcoming book! Model to Meaning: How to Interpret Statistical Results with #marginaleffects for #RStats and Python. These are early drafts and I really need your feedback! Errors, content requests, improvements, etc. marginaleffects.com

People tend to think there are more immigrants in their country than there really are. In the United States, for example, the average person believes that 33% of people were not born there. However, official estimates from government agencies show that the figure is just 15% —

this one's for the devs who collaborate with nontechnical folks bit.ly/4hhcJKB

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It's (almost) time to exorcise your money fears 👻 Copilot Money lands on iPad in just a few hours! The before and after says it all.

A 10% swing in win probability corresponds (approximately) to a 0.4% swing in predicted vote statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/02/a-1…

Camino al El CEP como en los viejos tiempos… Ni que fuera el 2011.

🚨📢 3rd Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado, 🇨🇱 (Aug 19-22) Confirmed speakers 🎓 JOHN FRIEDMAN (Brown) 🎓 STEVE PISCHKE (LSE) ✅ Submissions by March 2nd, 2025. uandes.cl/workshop-on-ec… 2024 edition ⛷️ youtu.be/Qb3gw1IFjnk?si… #econtwitter Human Development Lab UANDES

Two weeks left to submit to the Valle Nevado Workshop on Economics of Education. Great papers and a fantastic ski 🇨🇱⛷️!! When: August 19-22. Where:Valle Nevado⛷🏂, Chile. Confirmed speakers: John Friedman (Brown) and Steve Pischke (LSE). Human Development Lab UANDES Economics Conferences

Suggestions on best (e.g. good performance, not crazy expensive) VMs where I could run some heavy, one-off, computations in R? I have a total of like 8T of data and I need to combine geospatial data by state (largest state is like 1T). Azure? AWS? All suggestions welcome #rstats

I spent Friday with researchers and practitioners at a J-PAL North America convening, talking about the value of causal evidence (including RCTs) for making policy work better. A question that came up again and again is how to move forward in this moment of uncertainty about research