Obsession with Regression

Friday, December 11, 2015

Cancer and Campus Protests

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I discuss these topics (separately) for the New York Times here and here .
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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Who's Really Abusing Study Drugs?

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I write about this question for FiveThirtyEight here .
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Monday, October 19, 2015

A Statistical Argument for Not Being Nervous on First Dates

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A few months ago I became single for the first time in four years. I went from studying online dating to being a datapoint myself [...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

A Better Way to Conduct Sexual Assault Surveys

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Shengwu Li and I argue in the Washington Post that universities who conduct sexual assault surveys often misunderstand the basic statist...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Analysis of the Online Abortion Debate

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Brian Clifton, Gilad Lotan and I published an analysis of the fierce online debate about abortion. We visualize the spread of the hashtag...
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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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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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