Maria Cuellar
@mcuellar.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Criminology, Statistics & Data Science @Penn. Research in statistics+law, causal inference, and forensic science.
An important scholarship during these challenging times for government statistics!
The Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship offers up to $1,000 for students and early-career professionals interested in government statistics. Apply by May 1. #Statistics #Scholarship #GovernmentStats stattrak.amstat.org/...
April 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
An important scholarship during these challenging times for government statistics!
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Trump’s cuts to university funding mean fewer spots, rescinded offers, and grad programs slashing positions.
Students are being stranded with no backup plan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Students are being stranded with no backup plan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block
Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Trump’s cuts to university funding mean fewer spots, rescinded offers, and grad programs slashing positions.
Students are being stranded with no backup plan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Students are being stranded with no backup plan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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Use this form to alert the ASA-George Mason University Project on the Health of the Principal Statistical Agencies about developments that may impair fed statistical programs’ capacity to produce relevant, objective, & accurate statistics for the public good amstat.jotform.com/250561574825...
February 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Use this form to alert the ASA-George Mason University Project on the Health of the Principal Statistical Agencies about developments that may impair fed statistical programs’ capacity to produce relevant, objective, & accurate statistics for the public good amstat.jotform.com/250561574825...
Who said making a tenure portfolio couldn't be fun? (or, showing off my D3 and hyperlinks skillz).
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Network | Maria Cuellar
web.sas.upenn.edu
February 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Who said making a tenure portfolio couldn't be fun? (or, showing off my D3 and hyperlinks skillz).
web.sas.upenn.edu/mcuellar/vis...
web.sas.upenn.edu/mcuellar/vis...
We just published an exciting paper. Due to the statistical flaws in validity studies, we don't know the error rates in firearms casework, i.e. the discipline doesn't have a scientific basis. @amandaluby.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social @mrosenblum.bsky.social
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Methodological problems in every black-box study of forensic firearm comparisons
Abstract. Reviews conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) concluded t
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December 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM
We just published an exciting paper. Due to the statistical flaws in validity studies, we don't know the error rates in firearms casework, i.e. the discipline doesn't have a scientific basis. @amandaluby.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social @mrosenblum.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/lpr/article/...
academic.oup.com/lpr/article/...
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Excited to share our hot-off-the-presses forensics paper
@amandaluby.bsky.social @mcuellar.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social
@amandaluby.bsky.social @mcuellar.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social
Methodological problems in every black-box study of forensic firearm comparisons
Abstract. Reviews conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) concluded t
academic.oup.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Excited to share our hot-off-the-presses forensics paper
@amandaluby.bsky.social @mcuellar.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social
@amandaluby.bsky.social @mcuellar.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social
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We are excited to announce posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow data enthusiasts & developers for an unforgettable three days of learning, connection, and inspiration.
Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco...
#datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco...
#datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
December 6, 2024 at 4:00 PM
We are excited to announce posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow data enthusiasts & developers for an unforgettable three days of learning, connection, and inspiration.
Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco...
#datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco...
#datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
New preprint is up! arxiv.org/abs/2312.00032
Work with Heike Hofmann (one of the best statistical programmers out there) and Sheng Gao (an expert in clustering, now working in finance). Funded by CSAFE.
I loved @bwaber.bsky.social 's comment about the work, below:
Work with Heike Hofmann (one of the best statistical programmers out there) and Sheng Gao (an expert in clustering, now working in finance). Funded by CSAFE.
I loved @bwaber.bsky.social 's comment about the work, below:
December 4, 2023 at 9:23 PM
New preprint is up! arxiv.org/abs/2312.00032
Work with Heike Hofmann (one of the best statistical programmers out there) and Sheng Gao (an expert in clustering, now working in finance). Funded by CSAFE.
I loved @bwaber.bsky.social 's comment about the work, below:
Work with Heike Hofmann (one of the best statistical programmers out there) and Sheng Gao (an expert in clustering, now working in finance). Funded by CSAFE.
I loved @bwaber.bsky.social 's comment about the work, below:
Reposted by Maria Cuellar
The Harvard Data Science Initiative has launched its application for the 2024–2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Share with anyone who is a good fit; and have them reach out if their interest aligns with mine (e.g., causal inference, fairness, model validation, anomaly detection, GenAI, etc.).
HDSI Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The 2024-2025 application is now open, please use this link to apply! Overview of the Fellowship Program The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is seeking applications for its flagship Harvard Dat...
datascience.harvard.edu
October 2, 2023 at 2:48 PM
The Harvard Data Science Initiative has launched its application for the 2024–2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Share with anyone who is a good fit; and have them reach out if their interest aligns with mine (e.g., causal inference, fairness, model validation, anomaly detection, GenAI, etc.).
Reposted by Maria Cuellar
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Some thoughts about my experiment using a data editor. First, he is awesome: careful and timely. A big round of applause to Adam Spencer.
We want well-documented code and data packets. We encourage authors to follow these guidelines social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...
Some thoughts about my experiment using a data editor. First, he is awesome: careful and timely. A big round of applause to Adam Spencer.
We want well-documented code and data packets. We encourage authors to follow these guidelines social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...
A template README for social science replication packages.
The template README provided on this website is in a form that follows best practices as defined by a number of data editors at social science journals.
social-science-data-editors.github.io
September 27, 2023 at 12:24 AM
📉📈
Some thoughts about my experiment using a data editor. First, he is awesome: careful and timely. A big round of applause to Adam Spencer.
We want well-documented code and data packets. We encourage authors to follow these guidelines social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...
Some thoughts about my experiment using a data editor. First, he is awesome: careful and timely. A big round of applause to Adam Spencer.
We want well-documented code and data packets. We encourage authors to follow these guidelines social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...
Reposted by Maria Cuellar
We are searching for an Associate or Full Professor of Computational Social Science (broadly defined) to join our department at LSE
If you'd like any more information, please feel free to reach out to me.
Polisky
If you'd like any more information, please feel free to reach out to me.
Polisky
Associate Professor/Professor in Computational Social Science
http:jobs.lse.ac.uk Vacancies
jobs.lse.ac.uk
September 26, 2023 at 6:53 PM
We are searching for an Associate or Full Professor of Computational Social Science (broadly defined) to join our department at LSE
If you'd like any more information, please feel free to reach out to me.
Polisky
If you'd like any more information, please feel free to reach out to me.
Polisky
Hi, I’m here in the blue space. What’s going on?
September 22, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Hi, I’m here in the blue space. What’s going on?