soodoku
soodoku.bsky.social
soodoku
@soodoku.bsky.social

gojiberries.io
github.com/soodoku

I also run a South Asia focused bsky handle: @sudasia.bsky.social
"No matter how much of a big shot you get to be, you need time to do original research, reading, and reporting, as well as to expose yourself to new people, ideas, and life experiences. "

www.natesilver.net/p/sbsq-26-do...
SBSQ #26: Do prediction markets make polls useless?
Plus the 2026 Senate map, Joe Burrow versus Joe Flacco, and why you should do creative work until you die.
www.natesilver.net
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
📦 aea_rct_reg

This repository contains code and data for analyzing the American Economic Association's Randomized Control Trials Registry.

https://github.com/soodoku/aea_rct_reg
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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If he thinks that bad, wait til he sees how few people file claims for auto, fire, and flood insurance.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.

A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.

U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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📦 up-2023-electoral-rolls

This repository contains data and code related to the electoral rolls for the Uttar Pradesh 2023 elections in India.

https://github.com/in-rolls/up-2023-electoral-rolls
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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upgraded my eGPU setup over the weekend [RIP ADT rube goldberg machine] and decided to document it for posterity (with some promo for my torch econometrics package included)
apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...
GPU-Accelerated Econometrics on Consumer Hardware
tl;dr: A $200 used GPU plugged into an EGPU can make your research code order-of-magnitude faster.
apoorvalal.github.io
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
📦 up-2023-electoral-rolls

This repository contains data and code related to the electoral rolls for the Uttar Pradesh 2023 elections in India.

https://github.com/in-rolls/up-2023-electoral-rolls
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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From the @FT: “US companies’ earnings are growing at the fastest pace in four years…
Median earnings growth year-on-year across the Russell 3000 index — a benchmark for the entire US stock market — hit 11 per cent in …

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November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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If you work at the intersection of CS and economics (or think your work is of interest to those who do!) consider submitting to the ESIF Economics and AI+ML meeting this summer at Cornell: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...
2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting - The Econometric Society
2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting (ESIF-AIML2026) June 16-17, 2026 Cornell University Department...
www.econometricsociety.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 07,1949
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
netflix is the long video version of tiktok ....
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Latino voters swung hard to Democrats this week, largely erasing GOP inroads in '24

Trump first Republican win presidential vote in Passaic, NJ (70% Latino) — on Tuesday, the city flipped back

Nearby Paterson and Prospect Park also saw big swings, giving Sherrill better margins than Biden '20

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November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
📦 namesexdata

This repository provides a dataset containing international first names and the corresponding gender associated with each name.

https://github.com/appeler/namesexdata
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Benefit of Targeting - By Gaurav in Economics — 15 Dec 2018 The Benefit of Targeting What is the benefit of targeting? Why (and when) do we need experiments to estimate the benefits of targeting? And what is the right baseline to compare against? I start with a business casual expl…

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November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
📦 good_nyt

This repository provides data and analysis on the patterns in New York Times production from 1987 to 2007.

https://github.com/notnews/good_nyt
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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NJ's bluest counties saw biggest turnout increases, propelling landslide

Three densest counties saw largest jumps from '21:
Hudson (Jersey City), Essex (Newark), Union
>30% increase in total vote
>30-pt Democratic margin

High-profile local races helped, e.g., Jersey City mayoral w/ former gov

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November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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📦 sonny_side

This repository contains data and analysis exploring the bias towards sons in the naming of businesses in the United States.

https://github.com/soodoku/sonny_side
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📦 sonny_side

This repository contains data and analysis exploring the bias towards sons in the naming of businesses in the United States.

https://github.com/soodoku/sonny_side
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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📦 reg_breach

This repository contains code and data related to a project analyzing the correlation between voter registration files and data breaches reported by "Have I Been Pwned?" service.

https://github.com/themains/reg_breach
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📦 reg_breach

This repository contains code and data related to a project analyzing the correlation between voter registration files and data breaches reported by "Have I Been Pwned?" service.

https://github.com/themains/reg_breach
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM