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Prof of Sociology @Princeton, AY 22-23 sabbatical @the_IAS, Co-founder https://t.co/OZStFvv0li, Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age: https://t.co/VDpzBp4Mui
Jan 8, 2021 33 tweets 10 min read
Announcing the 2021 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. #SICSS is for grad students, post-docs & beginning faculty. Free for participants. @chris_bail and I are happy to tell you about all 20 locations. sicss.io [thread] SICSS brings together social scientists & data scientists interested in computational social science for 1-2 week events with intensive study & collaborative research.
May 22, 2020 35 tweets 22 min read
If hundreds of scientists created predictive algorithms with high-quality data, how well would the best predict life outcomes? Not very well. Fragile Families Challenge: paper in PNAS w 112 authors doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1… & Special Collection of Socius journals.sagepub.com/topic/collecti… We started with high-quality data. The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (@FFCWS) measured numerous domains of life for a cohort of families over many years. It has been used in more than 750 scientific papers. ffpubs.princeton.edu