Dónal O'Shea
@donaloshea.bsky.social
MSc Quantitative Economics student at UCD
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My UCD Economics colleague Cormac Ó Gráda has published a remarkable book on the civilian casualties of the two world wars showing that the death toll was much higher than previously known.
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press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Hidden Victims
A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars—and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern war
press.princeton.edu
August 20, 2024 at 9:04 PM
My UCD Economics colleague Cormac Ó Gráda has published a remarkable book on the civilian casualties of the two world wars showing that the death toll was much higher than previously known.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
New paper just out from Cormac Ó Gráda and co-authors.
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study
doi.org/10.1080/0161...
Pays particular attention to challenges algorithms face when they encounter imperfect data.
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study
doi.org/10.1080/0161...
Pays particular attention to challenges algorithms face when they encounter imperfect data.
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study
Automated census linkage algorithms have become popular for generating longitudinal data on social mobility, especially for immigrants and their children. But what if these algorithms are particula...
doi.org
March 3, 2024 at 12:10 PM
New paper just out from Cormac Ó Gráda and co-authors.
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study
doi.org/10.1080/0161...
Pays particular attention to challenges algorithms face when they encounter imperfect data.
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study
doi.org/10.1080/0161...
Pays particular attention to challenges algorithms face when they encounter imperfect data.