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My textbook with Kosuke Imai (Harvard University) is finally out! Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics or coding and only minimal knowledge of math, DSS teaches the fundamentals of survey research, predictive models, and causal inference + how to analyze real-world data with R. 🧵..

Last day to submit to "Causal Inference in the Social Sciences" to join us at the ASA Sociology meeting in Philadelphia in August! I look forward to reading some terrific causal submissions asanet.org/annual-meeting…

We are excited to announce that CCPR at UCLA is once again hosting a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) sicss.io with support from the Division of Social Sciences at UCLA LA Social Science.

Forthcoming in 2023! Russell Sage Foundation In this book, I show that four-year college completion enables disadvantaged graduates who overcome the odds of completing degrees to increase long-term wages, while also reducing unemployment, low-wage work, job loss, and family poverty.

Still got ASA Sociology energy? Close out your conference with causal inference! 3 presentations, 3 discussants. Will be a treat(ment) you won't want to miss! asa_methodology

Our Social Inequality Data Science (SIDS) Lab summer party (from a few weeks ago) sidatasciencelab.org, with Ian Lundberg Nathan Hoffmann @NanumJ Shiva Rouhani Bo-Wei Hu Maureen Cowhey, Taylor Aquino, Pablo Geraldo, Shibing Zhou, Lucas Ophoff, Soonhong Cho

I move to UCLA Sociology in July! I have loved my time at Cornell. It is a dream to move home to SoCal and to join such a wonderful department. Also looking forward to continued ties with CCPR at UCLA!

Submissions due soon! I am looking forward to this workshop

Our new paper explains why some life outcomes are hard to predict. We combined machine learning, a mathematical decomposition, and in-depth qualitative interviews to understand the origins of unpredictability: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Thanks to @alicesunreports for this writeup of our paper! And thanks Ramina Sotoudeh for your kind words also!