Professional announcement: This July I’ll move to Columbus to become Chair of the excellent Department of AEDE at Ohio State! I’m grateful for many great times in 20+ years with my colleagues at ACE at Illinois College of ACES but am excited to start this adventure at Ohio State Ohio State - CFAES

Myths about race & ethnicity in rural America are rampant & have real-world consequences for rural communities. We partnered with Center on Rural Innovation for the first #MAPProject48 to help them create clear data visualizations showcasing rural America's diversity: ruralinnovation.us/blog/who-lives…

#MAPProject48 challenged 3 graduate student teams to help Center on Rural Innovation simplify the process of creating high-quality data visualizations to advance their work for rural America. The results are a testament to the hard work of the Project48 & CORI teams: ruralinnovation.us/blog/who-lives…

👀Two early papers find the effects of generative AI on knowledge work are completely unprecedented in modern history Separate studies of both writers and programmers find 50% increases in productivity with AI, and higher performance and satisfaction. And this is just the start.

Buckle up!

Looking for a good #rural podcast recommendation? Check out the recent episode of the Rural Matters podcast featuring Mark Rembert that digs into misconceptions about rural America, & how we can use data to better understand rural people & places: ruralmatters.libsyn.com/title-using-da…

If I could have squeezed my vinyl record collection into the shot, it would have at least been a 9/10, Room Rater. But I'll take this score any day. :)

You knew it was coming; here it is: via OpenAI Daniel Rock An "early look" at potential labor market impacts of large language models like the GPT-4 Main takeaway: Up to 49% of workers could have half of tasks "exposed" h/t Rob Maxim

We proudly celebrate the City's Vietnamese Cultural Liaison Kevin Tran and the neighborhood he grew up in, known as Little Saigon in Fields Corner Dorchester. Watch the @WBZ interview, where you'll learn more about the neighborhood Kevin loves! cbsnews.com/boston/video/b…

We are very excited to have you join the team!

O-H! 1-0! How about your first-place Cincinnati Reds?!

Today, BEA updated the data and charts in our prototype measures of Americans’ economic well-being and long-term U.S. economic growth. This initiative joins BEA data with statistics from data partners, such as the Fed. See the latest at apps.bea.gov/well-being/

There are 4.1 million more full-time employees and 1.6 million fewer part-time employees in the U.S. now than before the pandemic. Workers have migrated out of precarious jobs into full-time jobs in a tight labor market.

Connect Humanity Interested in our research and analysis supporting this project? You can read the report we published to accompany the tool here: ruralinnovation.us/resources/repo… #broadband #bead

Great panel talk on Biden, Trump and the 2024 election with Jonathan Martin, Betsy Fischer Martin, Ben Terris and myself at the MS Book Festival in Jackson, Miss.! Watch on CSPAN later.

An interactive map in a single tweet: tidycensus::get_acs( geography = "tract", variables = "B19013_001", state = "IL", geometry = TRUE ) |> mapview::mapview( zcol = "estimate", layer.name = "Median household income" ) #rstats #GIS #demographics

Created a #Python package for #economic agent #simulations, from the paper "Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus?" by John Horton 🚀 Check it out github.com/vikmation/Econ… ! 🙂

President Biden has twice called me “Joe Joe” during today’s news conference. It’s a new nickname, I guess — one my niece has called me occasionally — but never POTUS.

When asked to share a short list of people in her Native Hollywood network, Lily Gladstone sent 42 names. Writers. Showrunners. Actors ages 18 to 75. Native cinematographers, editors, costume and set designers, and wardrobe and stunt specialists. theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

One of the clearest articulations I’ve ever seen of what it takes to actually deliver affordable housing. Restricting supply while subsidizing demand only drives up prices. Wish American politicians understood this…