Three R's in my last name, but it's not enough #rstats for me!
Senior Analytics Manager at Capital One.
Former Math & Stats/OR at UNC-CH.
Thoughts my own.
Nov 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Threading a few of my favorite* "big ideas" from last week's @causal_science conference. Another fantastic year of thought-provoking yet thoroughly pragmatic talks!
*strongly biased by "ability to attend" after waking up in the US and before work
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@rmkubinec conceptualizing descriptive <-> causal studies as a measurable spectrum based on entropy and, along the way, broadening the aperture to both quant and qual evidence
Cut an #rstats scripts runtime from 2+ hours to <5 minutes and feel extremely powerful (even though arguably the first version was just bad code)
Don’t know who needs this but a few random tips below. Easy once you’ve heard them but often outside of intro content 👇🏻
Run iterations in parallel! If you’re using {purrr} this is *ridiculously* easy with @dvaughan32 ‘s {furrr}
You truly just add ‘future_’ prefixes to map functions
