Katherine Hoffmann Pham

ACM COMPASS is back! A virtual conference at the intersection of sustainable development and technology -- 28 June -02 July 2021. Check out the call for papers/posters here: compass.acm.org #SDGs #InternationalDevelopment #HCI4D #ICT4D #COMPASS21

Announcing the 2021 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. #SICSS is for grad students, post-docs & beginning faculty. Free for participants. @chris_bail and I are happy to tell you about all 20 locations. sicss.io [thread]

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Login to the #UNDataForum📱💻 to learn about "Innovative use of Social Media for Remote Sensing and SDG Monitoring" organized by @gvrkiran @ingmarweber @ezagheni 🗓️ 19 October Live Q&A w/panelists @s_cresci @khof312 @ridhikash07 @SetioPramono @LisaOSingh youtube.com/watch?v=A178fu…

Sign up for live Q&A: @UNDataForum session "Innovative use of Social Media for Remote Sensing and SDG Monitoring". Organized w/ @gvrkiran @ezagheni, supported by @IUSSP. Panelists @s_cresci @khof312 @ridhikash07 @SetioPramono @LisaOSingh. Oct 19, 11am ET. iussp.org/en/live-qa-un-…

@ChenshuoSun @hu_xiyang @MarkHu33309492 in that sense I do agree that constructing features and setting up the ML problem properly is very important! And often what takes the most time.

@ChenshuoSun @MarkHu33309492 @hu_xiyang Agreed that creativity is important! But I think one of the most important applied skills is mapping the problem you want to address to the data you have. This requires domain expertise and listening to the client, + the technical skill to develop the right solution.

What constitutes the daily job of a data scientist? How would you plan your career path if #DataScientist is your first job?

@nomadj1s Think it depends on what you're trying to do (lit seems to have grown a lot in different directions), but I've found helpful summaries + links to recent papers here: diff.healthpolicydatascience.org and here: blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Ok, let’s say you’ve neither written nor refereed a Diff-in-Diff paper in the last two yeasts. What are the key methodological papers I need to brush up on? #EconTwitter Didn’t someone put together a list?

The KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping brings together a community of researchers and decision-makers to tackle challenges in humanitarian actions. The submission deadline is 5/20, 11:59 pm PDT. bit.ly/2Z1P9vQ @neilsgaikwad @TheRealShankar @rhodiuslin @DaltonLunga

@robseamans @abhishekn I would also be interested, if anyone has a spare invite!

@abhishekn oof, I didn't see this quick enough. Let me know if/how I can get one of these!

I have three extra invites to the NBER economics of transportation virtual conference (conference.nber.org/sched/ETs20) -- organizers want to keep it relatively open without overwhelming their systems, so they've allowed each "participant" to invite three others. DM if you're interested!

Some helpful advice on writing about robustness checks. Seems like a formula to make them both more readable and interesting👏

Only one week left to submit to ACM COMPASS! acmcompass.org Please help spread the word @jblumenstock @davidlazer @martikagv @cesifoti @alexvespi @barabasi @alex_pentland @jim_savage_ @ingmarweber @ciro @BilalSiddiqi @arutherfordium @vedransekara @khof312 @DogmaticPrior

When you start your research project with a data set rather than a research question.

Better #parking is the future of e-#scooters in cities and Parisians❤️🛴! A summary of the work that @BirdRide is doing to understand and encourage good parking in the city. cc @lwsamson @emmaboon bird.co/press/encourag… bird.co/fr/press/conce…

Two great related reads if interested in this topic: projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1… stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Pa…

I spent months reading about machine learning for causal inference, trying to understand the difference between causal and descriptive or predictive models. TL;DR:

Great news from #EPC2020! My work with @khof312, @chiccorampazzo, and @SilvestriFr has been accepted. I will present a poster on how we can leverage @MobikeIT 🚲 data to study mobility in Padova. #datascience

+1 more great summer school with social cohesion focus!

This was an amazing experience. Highly recommended!!!

Land your dream job traffic free. #EnjoyTheRide