Drew Dimmery
@ddimmery.com
social science methods: experiments, stats, ML. has read over a dozen books
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Join us next week for the Brown Bag Seminar!
We’re excited to host Professor @ddimmery.com for a discussion on how to design studies that preemptively address challenges, improving inference and generalization before data collection even begins.
Register 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
We’re excited to host Professor @ddimmery.com for a discussion on how to design studies that preemptively address challenges, improving inference and generalization before data collection even begins.
Register 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Join us next week for the Brown Bag Seminar!
We’re excited to host Professor @ddimmery.com for a discussion on how to design studies that preemptively address challenges, improving inference and generalization before data collection even begins.
Register 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
We’re excited to host Professor @ddimmery.com for a discussion on how to design studies that preemptively address challenges, improving inference and generalization before data collection even begins.
Register 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
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The Experiments Section Newsletter is BACK! Latest issue just dropped: what do we actually do while conducting experiments, and how do we handle unexpected events?
March 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Experiments Section Newsletter is BACK! Latest issue just dropped: what do we actually do while conducting experiments, and how do we handle unexpected events?
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The end of 538 is a huge shame - both for the incredible people who worked there, and for political and data journalism as a whole.
I was lucky enough to work beside them for a few years and want to say a bit about what I think was so valuable that I hope doesn't vanish from the media landscape: 🧵
I was lucky enough to work beside them for a few years and want to say a bit about what I think was so valuable that I hope doesn't vanish from the media landscape: 🧵
Incredibly sad to report that ABC News is indeed eliminating 538.
I count myself incredibly lucky to have worked with such incredibly smart, kind people for 7 years. Thank you all for coming along for the ride.
I count myself incredibly lucky to have worked with such incredibly smart, kind people for 7 years. Thank you all for coming along for the ride.
March 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The end of 538 is a huge shame - both for the incredible people who worked there, and for political and data journalism as a whole.
I was lucky enough to work beside them for a few years and want to say a bit about what I think was so valuable that I hope doesn't vanish from the media landscape: 🧵
I was lucky enough to work beside them for a few years and want to say a bit about what I think was so valuable that I hope doesn't vanish from the media landscape: 🧵
RCTs are good, but not (just) because they make the statistics easy.
What's the point of RCTs?
An ontological perspective
open.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
RCTs are good, but not (just) because they make the statistics easy.
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Interested in how people talk to each other online? Care about causal inference and/or NLP? Want to design and implement field experiments?
Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
February 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Interested in how people talk to each other online? Care about causal inference and/or NLP? Want to design and implement field experiments?
Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
The US2020 project was not independent (and that's good) open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
What was US2020?
The US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Project (US2020) was a sprawling project with dozens of people involved at various levels.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The US2020 project was not independent (and that's good) open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
I riffed on Ivan Illich, Smalltalk and This Place. open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
Is Bluesky convivial?
Smalltalk and the impossibility of social toolmaking to empower end-users
open.substack.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
I riffed on Ivan Illich, Smalltalk and This Place. open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
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A thread about being wrong:
5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong.
This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...
5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong.
This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...
November 21, 2024 at 6:01 PM
A thread about being wrong:
5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong.
This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...
5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong.
This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...
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Welcome to Hertie, @ddimmery.com ! 🤝
The Professor of Data Science for the Common Good begins teaching today.
"Algorithms, code and machine learning are an increasingly large part of how our world works. I'm excited to empower students to understand these topics!"
@hertiedatascience.bsky.social
The Professor of Data Science for the Common Good begins teaching today.
"Algorithms, code and machine learning are an increasingly large part of how our world works. I'm excited to empower students to understand these topics!"
@hertiedatascience.bsky.social
February 5, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Welcome to Hertie, @ddimmery.com ! 🤝
The Professor of Data Science for the Common Good begins teaching today.
"Algorithms, code and machine learning are an increasingly large part of how our world works. I'm excited to empower students to understand these topics!"
@hertiedatascience.bsky.social
The Professor of Data Science for the Common Good begins teaching today.
"Algorithms, code and machine learning are an increasingly large part of how our world works. I'm excited to empower students to understand these topics!"
@hertiedatascience.bsky.social
Using the reframing of "the Algorithm" to "the Apparatus" should shape how we evaluate what it is/does open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
Examining the Apparatus
The purpose of a system is what it does
open.substack.com
January 30, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Using the reframing of "the Algorithm" to "the Apparatus" should shape how we evaluate what it is/does open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
Continuing with the controversial takes, in this post I argue that folks should plot their data (based on a new paper at ISR with Yan Leng) open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
Calibration as an HTE diagnostic
Paper just accepted to Information Systems Research
open.substack.com
January 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Continuing with the controversial takes, in this post I argue that folks should plot their data (based on a new paper at ISR with Yan Leng) open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
Got a hot take: open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
Plagiarism is bad
Papers are what we do: we should try to do them well
open.substack.com
January 4, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Got a hot take: open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...
Does anyone know of a good intellectual history of ML/AI? Something that doesn't just survey the development of methods, but includes things like "Papert and Minsky think solving computer vision will be an undergrad summer project in the 60s"
November 6, 2023 at 1:20 PM
Does anyone know of a good intellectual history of ML/AI? Something that doesn't just survey the development of methods, but includes things like "Papert and Minsky think solving computer vision will be an undergrad summer project in the 60s"
Your weird linear algebra fact of the day:
b_ols = (X'X)^{-1} X'y = X^+ y
where X^+ is the Moore-Penrose inverse and X'X is invertible.
b_ols = (X'X)^{-1} X'y = X^+ y
where X^+ is the Moore-Penrose inverse and X'X is invertible.
October 22, 2023 at 7:06 PM
Your weird linear algebra fact of the day:
b_ols = (X'X)^{-1} X'y = X^+ y
where X^+ is the Moore-Penrose inverse and X'X is invertible.
b_ols = (X'X)^{-1} X'y = X^+ y
where X^+ is the Moore-Penrose inverse and X'X is invertible.
Really nice post by Kevin about the (insane) techno-optimist manifesto. There's also an implicit meta-level critique about modes of thinking that's worth considering, too: the Manifesto was basically a tweet-thread; Kevin's post is not. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
Accelerationism is Terrorism
Accelerating change has become both addictive and intolerable.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2023 at 8:41 PM
Really nice post by Kevin about the (insane) techno-optimist manifesto. There's also an implicit meta-level critique about modes of thinking that's worth considering, too: the Manifesto was basically a tweet-thread; Kevin's post is not. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
Wrote some thoughts on microblogging (derogatory)
Stop looking for the next Twitter
BlueSky doesn't solve any of Twitter's real problems, nor will any other microblog
open.substack.com
October 3, 2023 at 12:54 PM
Wrote some thoughts on microblogging (derogatory)
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My coauthor Drew Dimmery (formerly of Meta) on how the 2020 US Facebook and Instagram Election Project offers a template for reporting by social media platforms under future regulation - recommended
A Blueprint for the Regulation of Tech
Counterfactuals are the key to accurately assessing the risks of online platforms
drewdimmery.substack.com
September 11, 2023 at 6:45 PM
My coauthor Drew Dimmery (formerly of Meta) on how the 2020 US Facebook and Instagram Election Project offers a template for reporting by social media platforms under future regulation - recommended
I finally got around to posting a package to PyPi (https://pypi.org/project/bwd/). Geez, the comparison to the CRAN process is like night and day.
Zero worrying about a petty tyrant yelling at me for not following some abstruse and poorly documented procedures.
Zero worrying about a petty tyrant yelling at me for not following some abstruse and poorly documented procedures.
bwd
A clean implementation of the Balancing Walk Design for online experimental design from Arbour, Dimmery, Mai and Rao (2022)
pypi.org
July 11, 2023 at 3:36 PM
I finally got around to posting a package to PyPi (https://pypi.org/project/bwd/). Geez, the comparison to the CRAN process is like night and day.
Zero worrying about a petty tyrant yelling at me for not following some abstruse and poorly documented procedures.
Zero worrying about a petty tyrant yelling at me for not following some abstruse and poorly documented procedures.