Assistant Professor of Sociology at @ColumbiaSoc studying cities, inequality, and quantitative methods. Former firefighter at @BCN_Bombers.
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My paper on racial segregation & COVID-19 mortality is out now at PNAS. It uses @VC31415's double-lasso approach for principled covariate selection and @ProfEmilyOster sensitivity test to assess threats to unmeasured confounding pnas.org/content/118/7/e2015…
An excellent resource for teaching with Zoom, written by one of the most passionate and effective teachers I have known.
First tweet in over a year. Just published book "Teaching Effectively with Zoom".
In these uncertain times, let's strive for more certainty in achieving high quality teaching. I hope this book helps educators in Higher Ed & K-12.
#TeachingWithZoom
Link: amazon.com/Teaching-Effectiv…
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I just came across this book by @econdavid on @danmlevy's legendary statistics course at Harvard. I was fortunate to take Dan Levy's course in 2012. It was transformative and made me passionate about statistics. I look forward to reliving that experience through the book.
I wrote a book, and it’s out today! #InvisibleLearning is about @danmlevy’s legendary Statistics course at @Harvard. Until now, only a select few have been in the room: now anyone in the world can be part of the magic.👇(1/7)
🇺🇸 amazon.com/Invisible-Learnin…
🇬🇧 amazon.co.uk/Invisible-Learn…
I very much enjoyed reading this paper by @davidgrusky and coauthors. Very creative design and a great example of how to add complexity and heterogeneity to canonical SEIR models. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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These are great suggestions. Making data and code available should be a requirement in all empirical studies. I would add the use of pre-analysis plans for experimental *and* some non-experimental studies.
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Officially graduated as a PhD! Thank you to all mentors, colleagues, friends, and family who supported me throughout this journey! I could have not accomplished this without you!
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Thank you, @shamuskhan. Really excited about this journey!
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This is an embarrassment. Spain’s foreign minister used racist remarks (and a flawed logic) to explain why the US is more politically integrated than Europe. The same day, he was fined 30,000 Euros for insider trading. He hasn’t resigned yet.
📡 Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell: "In the US all they did was kill a couple of Indians". Read it in catalan or spanish: bit.ly/2FSOqVQ
Gerard Torrats-Espinosa retweeted
Trump says there’s a war on coal
iPhones weren't a war on rotary phones, they were a revolution
The horseless carriage wasn’t a war on horses, it was a revolution
The ice box wasn't a war on salted meats, it was a revolution
#cleanenergy isn't a war on coal, it's a revolution
Interesting move ... xitter.cf/polanalysis/status/955…
Political Analysis will no longer report p values in regression tables or elsewhere. There are many reasons for this change—most notably that a p value alone does not give evidence in support of a given model or the associated hypotheses. See Editorial in Issue 26.1 for more info
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Gerard Torrats-Espinosa retweeted
U.S. technology companies founded by 1st and 2nd generation immigrants: 🇺🇸
Apple
Google
Amazon
Facebook
Oracle
IBM
Uber
Airbnb
Yahoo
Intel
EMC
eBay
SpaceX
VMWare
AT&T
Tesla
NVIDIA
Qualcomm
Paypal
ADP
Reddit
SlackHQ
WeWork
Stripe
Cognizant
Intuit
3M
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A New York bookstore is featuring books today by writers from #ShitholeCountries including Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai
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The Great Crime Decline & the Comeback of Cities - My @CityLab convo with @patrick_sharkey about his new book UNEASY PEACE: citylab.com/life/2018/01/the…
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Happy #MLKDay. A reminder that the man we celebrate today was:
1. A political protester
2. Formerly incarcerated
3. Focused on race/racism
4. Impatient with incrementalism
5. Broadly unpopular until...
6. (He was) assassinated for advocating specifically for Black folks.
“Living in poverty used to mean living with the constant threat of violence. In most of the country, that is no longer true.” Read @patrick_sharkey’s NYTimes article on how the crime decline has changed America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. nytimes.com/2018/01/13/opini…
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Instead of wasting $18 billion on a border wall we could:
--End homelessness for 500K+ Americans
--Rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid
--Cover damages from Western wildfires
--Fund CHIP for decades
qz.com/1173705/four-things-t…
