Visualizing the Biomass of Life 🐷🐦🐞🐌🦌🦩🦜🐁🐠🦀🦔🪸 #biomass #science #poster #art #life #earth #infographic #design #illustration #illustratorsontwitter #scientificillustration #dataviz #data #dataart #dataillustration #infodesign #information #vizscicomm #scicomm #biology

3 years ago, I took my methods comprehensive exam just as everything was shutting down. To prep, I made a cheatsheet that quickly got out of hand and now stands at ~130 pages of notes on econometrics / causal inference / machine learning. apoorvalal.github.io/methods/tex/no…

🎓 ¡NUEVA BECA DE DESARROLLO REGIONAL! 🇨🇱 El Diplomado #CienciaDeDatos para #PolíticasPúblicas lanza esta beca para futuros estudiantes de regiones del país. Infórmate y comparte 🔽 bit.ly/DiplomadoCDpar…

Solution? We must Price Energy at its full social cost- pollution should not be free. Social cost of carbon is estimated by Greenstone at around $200. If we fully priced emissions we would find that Coal is MOST EXPENSIVE TECHNOLOGY! Also (Germany!) nuclear is the cheapest.

This is even more the case if we include the health cost of particulate matter. Coal really should stay on the ground.

However, only a few places have carbon taxes. And those that have it set it way below $200 (at $4 on average!)

Someone asked me today for advice about, essentially, how to be okay with not knowing all the things about all the thing. Especially when there's so much new stuff to know. The pace of all the tech developments is making ambitious people panicky.

🧵1/9 Let's talk about methods for identifying the optimal number of clusters in cluster analysis! Cluster analysis is a technique used to group data points based on their similarity. Here are some popular methods & R packages. #RStats #DataScience

Teaching an intro course on quant methods? Consider DSS. Overview: bit.ly/dss_tweet Get exam copy: bit.ly/dss_exam Get syllabus, slides, replication-style exercises: bit.ly/dss_instructor Interactive graphs: bit.ly/dss_graphs #rstats #academictwitter

Are you curious what firms have been charging for "data and analytics engineering" consulting? In today's Data Scam Lessons with Lauren™ we're evaluating what consultancies charge to make dashboards and do some data modeling exercises for ~3 month "Modern Data" starter

You can’t do data science if there’s no data. If you get hired to be head of data science in an organization where there’s no data and no data engineering, guess who’s going to be the data engineer…? You!

Algunas imágenes de la bendición de la sala Juan Gastó, profesor precursor de estudios de ecología y ciencias animales de nuestra facultad. Un pequeño homenaje a alguien que ha marcado a muchas generaciones de estudiantes.

turns out aliens almost exclusively speak english

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Mi papá haciéndose famoso con sus cartas al director

🚨 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 🚨 "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"

Prof. James A. Robinson has been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, for "studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity." He is the 101st scholar associated with UChicago to be named a Nobel laureate.

Is this relevant today?

Will I get a good income out of doing a PhD? Of course not. But will I at least also find a stable job that allows me to pursue my research? Also no. But will I at least be happy doing what I like? Hahaha also no. Sounds terrible. Where do one sign up?