@_SeanBock

Research Scientist @Meta. Sociology PhD @Harvard. Tweeting about #rstats, #dataviz

 New York, NY
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Joined November 2017
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The hardest thing about transitioning from @Stata to #Rstats was giving up the incredible margins command. That's why @VincentAB's marginaleffects package is a godsend! But slight differences in terminology make it a bit confusing to nav. Here's a short thread comparing the two:
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New article on what happened to religion, and the measurement of religion, during the pandemic: academic.oup.com/socrel/adva… We (@_SeanBock @MikeHoutNY) show the apparent decline in the highest levels of religiosity in the 2021 GSS, which moved online, was due to non-response bias.
Screenshot of the title and abstract of the study. Additional images are of figures and tables of the study. Title: Switch to Web-Based Surveys During COVID-19 Pandemic Left Out the Most Religious, Creating a False Impression of Rapid Religious Decline Abstract: It's too long to include in this description. It, along with the figures and tables, can be accessed here: https://academic.oup.com/socrel/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socrel/srad061/7640314

ALT Screenshot of the title and abstract of the study. Additional images are of figures and tables of the study. Title: Switch to Web-Based Surveys During COVID-19 Pandemic Left Out the Most Religious, Creating a False Impression of Rapid Religious Decline Abstract: It's too long to include in this description. It, along with the figures and tables, can be accessed here: https://academic.oup.com/socrel/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socrel/srad061/7640314

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My AJS article (link in thread below) on the partisan sorting of nationalist beliefs in the United States, co-authored with @YuvalFeinstein and @_SeanBock, was discussed in today’s @nytimes column by @Edsall. nytimes.com/2023/07/19/opini…

Opinion | ‘Gut-Level Hatred’ Is Consuming Our Political Life (Published 2023)

Three more ways we are splitting apart.

nytimes.com
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There's WAY more functionality with both of these libraries of course, but these are probably the most common usages, especially in #Sociology. Hopefully this helps clear up some confusion for former #Stata users who'd like to work with average predictions and AMES in #Rstats!
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I'd also highly recommend checking the incredibly thorough documentation for the marginaleffects package. Great overview of these methods. vincentarelbundock.github.io…
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Ah yes. Further justification for my regular Excel diatribes. Excellent tool for many tasks—but it absolutely blows my mind that it’s central to the workflows of many (most?) organizations and researchers!
Ethan Mollick
@emollick22 Nov 2022
🤯Because of Excel, a THIRD of all genetics papers published in top journals have errors, as many genes have names like SEPT2 (the official name of Septin 2), which Excel automatically makes dates. The issue was found in 2016, but still hasn’t improved! journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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🤯Because of Excel, a THIRD of all genetics papers published in top journals have errors, as many genes have names like SEPT2 (the official name of Septin 2), which Excel automatically makes dates. The issue was found in 2016, but still hasn’t improved! journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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Which season season of Stranger Things is the scariest? Based on a sentiment analysis of scripts, it looks like it's Season 4 (seems right to me!). I walk through how I made this graph in my latest blog post: seanbock.com/post/2022-10-31… #rstats #TidyTuesday #tidyverse #textmining
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This new app from @_SeanBock is great fun. Computes the odds of any given handicap beating any other given handicap in an 18-hole match, with or without strokes.
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9PM to 12PM? ULTIMATE KARAOKE might be an understatement.
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In the 2021 GSS, religion appears to have declined dramatically. Did the COVID-19 pandemic precipitate rapid religious decline? In a new study, @_SeanBock, @MikeHoutNY, and I show mode effects and especially non-response bias explain the apparent decline: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/g3…
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New on the site S Ericson writes up recent research from @bartbonikowski, @YuvalFeinstein, & @_SeanBock in @ChicagoJournals AJS showing that in 2016 both parties' supporters held nationalist beliefs, however, the nature of these beliefs was partisan bit.ly/PartisanNationalism
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Glad to learn that Gollum survived the fall at Mount Doom and is now the editor of a prestigious biomedical journal. #LordOfTheRings #Sociology
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Inspired by the glorious Jeff Goldblum text generator website (Jeffsum), I decided to create one for Dwight Schrute using #RStats Shiny. Enjoy! #TheOffice @theofficetv @TheOfficeCIips #rstudio #DataScience #r4ds sean-bock.shinyapps.io/Dwigh…
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