Rohan Alexander

My book about introductory data science was published today. It is available online - tellingstorieswithdata.com - and you can buy a print copy: routledge.com/Telling-Storie…. I would appreciate your feedback and suggestions for improvements.

All welcome at the conference in 10 days in Toronto. And also if you think “hey I’ve got thoughts on AI and quant social science” and may like to contribute please email me.

I'll be at a workshop organized by @RohanAlexander next week on how AI will change quantitative social science. This is my short paper, and this is the key argument. ryancbriggs.net/blog/as-ai-low…

@mziizm Wow! Congratulations!!!

I'm excited to share that I'll be stepping into the role of Head of Cohere Labs. It's an honor and a responsibility to lead such an extraordinary group of researchers pushing the boundaries of AI research.

@rmkubinec My dream of a physics nobel remains!

@RohanAlexander Geez it’s almost like we’re all scientists with a common mission. So weird.

I know nothing about physics, but it was interesting how similar the methodological concerns were to those we have in social science: theoryandpractice.org/2024/10/Yes,%2…

In-person at 700 University Ave, Level 9, Room 9195 or Zoom (get link here: rohanalexander.substack.com/p/in-person-an…).

This Friday 25 October 2024, noon (EDT), I'm thrilled to host Jay Alammar, Cohere, on his new book “Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation”. All welcome.

Fresca absolutely the best in Toronto on a quality/price basis.

seriously, don't sleep on github actions

@nrennie35 Thanks for including Telling Stories with Data

✨I’m on the academic job market!✨ I'm a CS Postdoc at Stanford in the @stanfordnlp. I develop AI and causal inference to tackle societal issues like online civility, racial justice, sustainability, and more. Check out the thread for details! Website: kristinagligoric.com

Details: open.substack.com/pub/rohanalexa…

On Friday, noon (EDT) Toronto Data Workshop hosts Rona Fang-Yu Hu. All welcome.

@JosiahParry I think that one may be the wrong way around - when I look at the content I've mostly written an R package.

Nick Cox wrote a review of my book, and it turns out I say "a lot" a lot. So fixing that is today's task.

@Cghlewis It could have been (a lot!) worse. A partial list of phrases that I noticed and removed during the re-writing process attached. There were *so* many "Importantly"s.

@RohanAlexander That is one lengthy review 😳 Don't stress about "a lot". I am 100% certain I also got repetitive with phrases in my book. :/

@SHamiltonian How can we include this in our macro modelling of the returns of immigration?

Super great to see @EconZach present "Multigenerational Mobility in American History" today.

I'm thrilled to announce the beginning of my month of saying no to everyone

@seanjtaylor Zoom and sign up here: rohanalexander.substack.com/p/casual-disco…

This Friday, noon, EDT, hosting @seanjtaylor on “Casual Discovery for Product Analytics”. All welcome.