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.

@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.

@XavierRicherVis @cdnbiz Congratulations mate!

Update: I'm a new editor @cdnbiz! For the next little bit, I'll be commissioning and editing regular installments in the How I Made It series, as well as short features highlighting innovation by Canadian businesses ! Pitch me at xavier{dot}richervis{at}stjoseph{dot}com