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Elena Llaudet
@ellaudet.bsky.social
Political Scientist | Associate Professor @Suffolk | Harvard PhD | Co-author of Data Analysis for Social Science (with Kosuke Imai): bit.ly/dss_textbook
Teaching or learning intro stats and R? #rstats

Check out my self-graded review exercises. They provide instant feedback on multiple choice and hands-on coding exercises.

🔗 bit.ly/dss_student_...
📽️ walkthrough video: youtu.be/BnXqxeKAo4Q
September 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Enjoying coming up with questions to discuss with students at the end of each lecture #rstats
July 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
How does the mean and standard deviation of a variable affect its distribution?

Here is a beginner-friendly interactive graph:
📊 bit.ly/dss_shiny_mean_sd

#rstats
June 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Self-graded R and stats exercises for beginners!

Test your understanding of the material in our textbook (bit.ly/dss_textbook):

- Intro to R: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch1
- Intro to causal inference: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch2
June 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Just updated the syllabus for my Data Analysis and Politics class. Sharing in case it is useful: bit.ly/dss_syllabus

Based on our beginner-friendly textbook: bit.ly/dss_textbook

For more instructor resources see: bit.ly/dss_instructors

#rstats #AcademicSky
June 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Not sure which one is a better fit for your class?

You can read the first chapter of DSS for free here: bit.ly/dss_preview

And the first chapter of QSS (base R version) here: bit.ly/qss_preview

For more info on both, see🧵below:
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January 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Teaching an intro course on quantitative methods in the social sciences?

Check out DSS and QSS by Kosuke Imai (@Harvard): bit.ly/dss_qss

Both come with instructor resources, including lecture slides and additional replication-style exercises.

#rstats
January 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Enjoying the process of improving our textbook for complete beginners: bit.ly/dss_book

Here is the new cheatsheet for correlation. Is there anything else that you would like to see included?

#rstats
October 14, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Teaching intro stats or quant methods? #rstats

Consider using our textbook for complete beginners: bit.ly/dss_book

It comes with instructor materials, including syllabus, lecture slides, additional replication-style exercises: bit.ly/teaching_dss

Selected praise ⬇️
May 21, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Teaching or learning stats and R?

I'm creating self-graded practice exercises so that students can test their understanding of the material without the help of an instructor.

I just created some related to how to estimate causal effects using randomized experiments ...

#rstats
February 29, 2024 at 6:18 PM
In case it is of interest, I have just added the ability to generate a summary report. #rstats
February 4, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Teaching or learning stats and R?

I have started creating some self-graded practice exercises for students so that they can test their understanding of the material without the help and supervision of an instructor. …

#rstats
February 1, 2024 at 2:24 PM
It's been a year since our textbook for complete beginners, Data Analysis for Social Science (bit.ly/dss_book), was published and we are grateful for all the positive feedback we have received. (Too many to fit here.) Thank you all!

#rstats #datascience
November 29, 2023 at 2:33 PM
Ecstatic to read this post from Andrew Gelman about my textbook with Kosuke Imai, Data Analysis for Social Science: bit.ly/dss_book

The full blog post is here: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/10/26/t...
October 26, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Teaching intro stats or intro quant methods?

My syllabus, lecture slides, and some of the other materials we provide instructors using DSS are here: bit.ly/teaching_dss

I hope they are helpful!
October 19, 2023 at 12:28 AM
Hi! I created an interactive graph to illustrate how the least squares method chooses the line of best fit.

Feel free to share with your students:
bit.ly/dss_least
October 12, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Hi! I created an interactive graph to illustrate the role the intercept and the slope play in defining a line.

Feel free to share with your students:
bit.ly/dss_line
October 11, 2023 at 10:01 PM
Hi! I created an interactive graph to illustrate the two characteristics the correlation coefficient captures.

Feel free to share with your students:
bit.ly/dss_correlation

#rstats
October 6, 2023 at 10:31 PM