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no exaggeration, me at the opera

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I love R but I’m not sure anything has made me miss Stata more than trying to easily create basic table 1s with latex output

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

bsky.app/profile/akhi...

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laughing in wisconsin

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Spent the last three full days getting a weird, incorrect result only to realize at 11 PM that I had subtracted one (1) thing in the wrong direction and now it all works

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

\Theta\Delta\Psi{SS}\Sigma\Psi? That’s just a Jacobian relevant for the sandwich standard errors in the non-Gaussian canonical correlation analysis. Glad to see it hitting the big screen, its role in statistics has been underappreciated.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Clams casino pizza from basically anywhere in New Haven

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Do you use federal statistics? Please share your feedback regardless of whether you are a federal statistics novice or a seasoned power user. We welcome examples of how you use federal statistics, suggestions to improve both the data & user experience, & more. gmu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Revisited the always-over-comment-your-code lesson for the 700th time earlier today with a (successful) one hour exercise in “how did I calculate these standard errors on this table for this project from a year ago???” Will I learn anything from this? Probably not.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I sure do love one of my senators’ offices saying he thinks presidents simply have the right to install secretaries of federal departments however they see fit

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The NIH has a predoctoral fellowship called the F31. A subsection (F31 Diversity) is earmarked for diverse candidates, many of whom would have been a shoe-in for regular fellowships. All those applications are being thrown out rather than integrated into the larger pool. Segregation is the point.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Looks like the API is still returning ACS data but TIGER must still be down because requests for shapefiles are still failing

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The number of pages unavailable is large, but I think doesn’t give the full context here. The full Center for Economic Studies working paper series is unavailable. That’s the work of CES staff and coauthors but also anyone working through an RDC. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Looks like the State Dept.’s form filler tool for passports is “undergoing maintenance”

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I am so efficient at getting work done disclaimer voice: this person spent two hours finding the expand = false option in `coord_cartesian()` to reduce data axis margins in a ggplot2 figure for a manuscript

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I think that @amstatnews.bsky.social should say something about such an open data manipulation at large scale - what government data can we now trust? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

woof

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know why DoT would ever restrict access to these data, but wanted to share a repo of mine for automating the downloading+cleaning of the Bureau of Transportation Stats DB1B and T100 datasets. The code's fairly old at this point so ymmv github.com/i-baumann/DB...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

on a cdc dataset page, there's a slug in the url like `k62p-6esq` in data.cdc.gov/Disability-Health/Disability-and-Health-Data-System-DHDS-/k62p-6esq/about_data and if you plop that onto this URL dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.cdc.gov/ you get a page with "Export dataset as CSV" in a sidebar

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

The YRBS site going dark is a real eye-opener

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Been thinking lately about a guy I knew a few years ago who not once but twice regressed real GDP on both nominal GDP and inflation for final class projects. I saw god at work through Stata inverting those matrices during those presentations. Hope that guy is doing well.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

submitted 33 days ago • 72 comments

There’s a lot here but putting Pell Grant disbursements on indefinite hold (if that’s what’s happening here), especially near the start of academic terms, is vile

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Gut check: do The Youths™️ know who Paul Newman was?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

submitted 40 days ago • 36 comments

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going. It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

submitted 41 days ago • 22 comments

Now seems like a good time to remember if you interface with students that those students - especially those from vulnerable populations - do see what you say/post publicly and will take those as signals as to whether you’re a reliable supporter/friend/mentor when things get tough.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

And if yooooooooooou caaaaaaaaaaaan beleeeeeeive it, it’s a Friday once again! youtu.be/l21GFyOO8Ug?...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The Research Bazaar is a super fun and extremely cool event! Would highly encourage anyone in the UW-Madison community to participate.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Some shots from Christmas #filmphotography

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