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Tyler Simko

Tyler Simko

@tylersimko

I study American local politics & public services.

South Amboy, NJ Katılım Eylül 2011
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Josh Kertzer
Josh Kertzer@jkertzer·
Today we celebrate an amazing group of @HarvardGovernmen1 PhDs to graduate in 2023-24! Yesterday, we toasted their accomplishments in person, today, let's pay tribute to them online! A 🧵…
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Tyler Simko@tylersimko·
@CarolineLindey Thank you so much, @CarolineLindey!! I so appreciate it. Can’t wait to see you soon in A2. 🫡 Of course please feel free to DM or email anytime before that if I can be helpful!!
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Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Proud of newly-minted Dr. Tyler Simko, who just successfully defended his dissertation, “Geographic Policy Evaluation in US State and Local Politics” — Hooray, @tylersimko!
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Tyler Simko@tylersimko·
@KevinTMorris Have gone down a similar rabbit hole before for a project on teachers: haven’t seen many ages (though some state lawsuits on whether you can FOIA them). But some have name, location, and retirement date. I’ve collected some before, feel free to DM / email, love to talk more.
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Soubhik* Barari (inactive)
Soubhik* Barari (inactive)@SoubhikBarari·
@tylersimko and I are excited to announce a new version of 🏠LocalView🏙️ updated with meetings until September 2023. Additionally, we've built a dashboard on our site so you can now search for / visualize keyword trends in public meetings. Check it out! localview.net
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Tyler Simko@tylersimko·
@KevinTMorris I’ve started defining a few common objects I put in every local project .Rprofile, which makes them available as global variables. Election dates, FIPS codes, etc. Super convenient!!
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Tyler Simko@tylersimko·
@FeliciaArriaga oh my gosh this sounds awesome, please share how it goes if you don’t mind! I’d love to hear your experience using it in class.
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Tyler Simko@tylersimko·
@matt_blackwell @shirokuriwaki You could also edit and host on a Colab notebook — they scale really well for small / mid-sized analysis because students make a copy of an R-enabled jupyter notebook to their own gmail account. I’m using it now for ~100 person course with no issues. Happy to share examples.
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Matt Blackwell
Matt Blackwell@matt_blackwell·
@shirokuriwaki @rstudio Does using your own shiny link scale well? I just have no idea what level of resources I would need for a 100 person class with weekly tutorials (I assume you’re talking about your shinyapps.io account?)
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Matt Blackwell
Matt Blackwell@matt_blackwell·
Most the content is still fine, but are issues like gather() and spread() being taught instead of the pivot_*() functions.
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Tyler Simko
Tyler Simko@tylersimko·
@matt_blackwell Ahh very cool - thanks! For really tricky ones, testthat::compare() will do something similar and show where mismatches happened. Can be useful for hint error messages.
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Matt Blackwell
Matt Blackwell@matt_blackwell·
@tylersimko Yeah, I actually switched to a isTRUE(all.equal()) setup for a lot of checks because it handles cases like this along with floating point rounding and names() differences if you use check.attributes=FALSE. Slowly iterating to the right answer, just like my students!
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Matt Blackwell
Matt Blackwell@matt_blackwell·
Writing autograders in R is so fun!
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Tyler Simko@tylersimko·
@Isaac_es_Felix I just finished my first year, and I’d be happy to help in any way (talk more, look over application materials, answer questions, etc). Feel free to reach out and good luck!!
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Tyler Simko@tylersimko·
@Isaac_es_Felix I’ll echo what others have said about not putting all your eggs in one basket. Look out for fee waivers (deadlines were often earlier than I thought) and apply to at least a few schools (some visits might pleasantly surprise you!).
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Jorge E. Diaz
Jorge E. Diaz@SuptJDiaz·
Due to expected severe weather conditions, South Amboy Public Schools will be closed Thursday, January 4, 2018. Please stay warm and be safe! #SASupt
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