Obsession with Regression

Monday, September 21, 2015

A Tool for Mapping Drunk Tweets and Police Shootings

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How do we map the density of a set of events? For example, we might want to map locations of tweets supporting Bernie Sanders as opposed t...
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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Using Twitter Data to Study Men and Women's Drinking Habits

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My analysis of half a million drunk tweets, and more than two million tweets about alcohol, was just published by Quartz; you can read it ...
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Friday, August 7, 2015

I Look Like an Engineer

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This week tens of thousands of female engineers tweeted pictures of themselves and explanations of the work they do under the hashtag #ILo...
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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Advice and Sample Essays for Prospective Rhodes, Marshall, NSF, NDSEG, and Hertz Applicants

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When applying for graduate scholarships, you have an advantage if you’re from a school that’s had many previous candidates: you can read de...
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Emma Pierson
I love using statistics to make sense of the world. I'm at Stanford doing a PhD in computer science after spending a year studying statistics at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and a year as a researcher at Coursera and 23andMe.
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