Fan Chen

📣Out now: New work from @yinizhang2011 @ftrevorc & @JosephineLukito on network amplification on Twitter! The paper examined how elites amplify politicized information and how this varies based on partisan identity of the influencer. Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

"As someone who studies Twitter data, should I start using Twitter?" --a statistician friend

"We seeking a hard working post-doc..."

@karlrohe so interesting! I use principal component regression everyday now

The mathemagics of PCA

the best matrix movie ever!

an alternative way to imagine PCA:

Graduate school is a dangerously vulnerable place this vulnerability can enable tremendous growth choose your community and your mentors carefully. Be kind to yourself and each other Mentors, it is an honor to support people in this stage. and this is painfully easy to forget.

I’m going to begin today with a bold claim: Being an applied statistician is a lot like being an ethnographer.

@kinjean #AAdvantage40th

Looks like I am doing an excellent job in the end (of my PhD) 😃

Would you want your whole face to be seen while wearing a #mask? Brazilian artist Jorge Silva Roriz paints parts of customers' faces onto white protective masks, ensuring that details like facial hair color and skin tone would be closely matched to his customers' faces.

Suffering from overconfident softmax scores? Time to use energy scores! Excited to release our NeurIPS paper on "Energy-based Out-of-distribution Detection", a theoretically motivated framework for OOD detection. 1/n Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2010.03759 (w/ code included)

A stat-graph problem! answer might be trivial? Suppose a two block stochastic blockmodel on n nodes that is below the reconstruction threshold. an oracle puts every node into one of n/k "pre-groups" of k nodes. no group has nodes in both blocks. can you reconstruct? idk.

The third phase of the ENCODE project presents an online registry of over 1,200,000 human and mouse candidate functional elements that regulate genes, and the findings are presented in a collection of papers. See the collection here. go.nature.com/2DlgiRe

American Statistical Association Board issues Statement on President Trump’s Memorandum Regarding the Decennial Census calling "for this administration to allow the US Census Bureau career professionals to conduct a fair & impartial census and ..." @CountOnStats @AmstatNews

SURF: from @fchen365 and @SunduzKeles, Statistical Utility for RBP Functions, a method for joint analysis of CLIP-seq and RNA-seq data. It uses annotation of alternative exon usage and similar events to predict functional roles for RNA binding proteins genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Congratulations to Eric Wilcots, who's been named Dean of @UWMadisonLS. He's the first African American to hold the position, and we couldn't be happier to move forward under his energy and leadership. @uwmadison bit.ly/3dbYYvj #WeAreLS

Can someone please tell me what game John Ioannidis is playing, and also, what are the rules?

@undercoverkanye Same...

Confession: until this very moment I thought that Michael Jordan was dead