David Van Riper

Hurray! IPUMS USA now includes 2022 ACS data. 🎉 Also, be sure to check out improved versions of 19th century full count files and updated geography variables based on 2020 PUMAs! 👀 Come take a look at usa.ipums.org/usa/

@greg_shill @DenselySpeaking @JSiodla @jeffrlin Excellent episode, you all! I really enjoyed the conversation, especially the discussion of the data Jim created.

🎙️🎙️🎙️ Spotify link to @DenselySpeaking pod interview of Jim Siodla (@JSiodla) by Jeff Lin (@jeffrlin) and me about Jim’s paper: “Firms, Fires, and Firebreaks: The Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster on Business Agglomeration” spotify.link/obNutwno8Db

🎙️🎙️🎙️ New @DenselySpeaking pod: “Firms, Fires, and Firebreaks: The Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster on Business Agglomeration,” featuring author Jim Siodla (econ prof at Colby College). Co-hosted by Jeff Lin and me. @jeffrlin @JSiodla podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/den…

@BeebleG Congratulations! That's great news.

Two NOAs came through today from NIH. One as MPI from NIMHD and another as Co-I from NIAAA. I was patiently waiting, but the news of a possible govt shutdown was making me nervous. I will be soon posting info for funded PhD positions with skills in Data Sc, Digital Carto, health!

You can register for the showcase at ipums.org/ipums30.

I'm excited to see talks by some excellent scholars (and hang out with them) and geek out about what's possible with IPUMS data.

We are celebrating 30 years of @ipums next month with a research showcase! Join us in person or virtually on October 13 to see research talks made possible because of IPUMS. ipums.org/ipums30

@BeebleG @ipums You can register at the link I included!

@dcvanriper @ipums wow! would love to join virtually.

Tribal nations face less accurate, more limited 2020 census data because of privacy methods apnews.com/article/native…

@kairyssdal I am in Universal City right now. Didn’t actually feel the earthquake in hotel lobby. It’s steadily raining here but little wind thus far.

📣 We are hiring! Come and join us as a Senior Data Analyst. Be the point person for our IPUMS USA project adding linked full-count census data spanning the period 1850 to 1950. Learn more: assets.ipums.org/_files/jobs/35…

New research from MPC Members J'Mag Karbeah @BeahboutIT & J. David Hacker @jdavidhacker612 utilizes the training and resources of the MPC and the incredible power of @ipums to look at this history of racial segregation and child mortality.@UMNresearch research.umn.edu/news/institute…

August 1 is the deadline to submit an abstract for the 2023 Southern Demographic Association meeting. This year’s @SDA_Demography meeting will be October 18-20 in San Antonio, TX. For more information about SDA and how to submit an abstract, click here: sda-demography.org

New metro definitions published! This is the big decennial update. Plus, it includes -- for the first time -- Connecticut metros defined using planning regions instead of counties. Thank you @OMBPress @uscensusbureau whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

@WeedenKim @kbguzzo @noahopinion Did you mean to tag @Noahpinion?

@paulgp @jschwabish Maybe too basic but line graph for city comparison and graduated circles for specific cities. I don’t really love graduated circles but this may work.

@doc_thoughts Congratulations!

Today I was notified that I earned early promotion to Associate Professor with tenure.

@ilaks @lightlake85 @mo57744 @jemelehill Harvard hasn’t increased its class size in a long time! So, new buildings != increased class sizes. toptieradmissions.com/resources/coll…

By benefit I mean a few million dollars for a new building or a new labor classrooms allows more students to enter the university. As crass as it sounds, if someone shows up with 20M and says take my lazy son with a 2.5GPA and keep him occupied for 4 years and give him some degree in some made up field, I think that’s a choice between taking the kid in like some glorified daycare but also open up space to take in 50 more new students. Or saying no and no 50 more spaces. Of course I’m just showing how much donations can be transactional. And whether this is a net benefit or not is open to debate.

34 percent of Harvard students are white. 43 percent of those students are either legacies, children of faculty, kin of donors or a recruited athlete. 75 percent of them would not have gotten in if not for special status (National Bureau of Economic Research). But when in doubt, blame the Black people!

WaPo columnists interpreting the affirmative action cases very differently!

@andyfenelon @HeatherFRandell Hope the move went smoothly! Welcome to the Twin Cities - we're super excited to have you here.

We’ve arrived in Minneapolis! I’m excited for this next chapter, to become part of the University of Minnesota community, and for the bikes!

@kbguzzo We saw Art of the Brick in San Francisco last summer! It was really cool!