Zack Almquist
@zalmquist.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics | Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience @ University of Washington | Housing and Homelessness | Computational Demography | Migration | Social Networks
https://zalmquist.github.io
https://zalmquist.github.io
This does involve using R, but I think you could get away with following the manual pretty closely, @adrianraftery.bsky.social's webpage on demographic projections is pretty thorough bayespop.csss.washington.edu
BayesPop
Probabilistic Population Projections
bayespop.csss.washington.edu
June 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This does involve using R, but I think you could get away with following the manual pretty closely, @adrianraftery.bsky.social's webpage on demographic projections is pretty thorough bayespop.csss.washington.edu
Hi Mark! Any chance you would be willing to share your slide deck on the role of science and policy with me? I am teaching a class in data science and policy in the fall and am always trying to collect material to build on.
March 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hi Mark! Any chance you would be willing to share your slide deck on the role of science and policy with me? I am teaching a class in data science and policy in the fall and am always trying to collect material to build on.
Cool! Will follow up -- a bunch of the plots will make it into my slides assuming you are ok with it?
February 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Cool! Will follow up -- a bunch of the plots will make it into my slides assuming you are ok with it?
Any chance you are cataloging the data and code for all these plots? I would love to grab a bunch of these for my class! I already use your demographic facts all undergrads show know regularly!
February 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Any chance you are cataloging the data and code for all these plots? I would love to grab a bunch of these for my class! I already use your demographic facts all undergrads show know regularly!
Amazing! Thank you!
February 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Amazing! Thank you!
Do you have data/code for that plot? I would love to use it in my class next quarter?
February 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Do you have data/code for that plot? I would love to use it in my class next quarter?
Any sense how much the average would be skewed by the tail in this case? I can imagine reading is like income, where the average is really affected by the people who read a lot and the median is much lower. So I can see 19 being a reasonable average, even if the mode is like 1 & median ~2.
November 30, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Any sense how much the average would be skewed by the tail in this case? I can imagine reading is like income, where the average is really affected by the people who read a lot and the median is much lower. So I can see 19 being a reasonable average, even if the mode is like 1 & median ~2.