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Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.

New multi-year hiring initiative in American politics in Dept of Political Science The University of Chicago. Open to all areas. Searches this year: Junior: apply.interfolio.com/112427 Senior: apply.interfolio.com/111333 Postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/112426 EOE/Vet/Disability womenalsoknowstuff @POCalsoknow

.Data Science Institute hosts this amazing two-day workshop for early career data scientists (late stage grad students, post docs, and research scholars). Really a fantastic opportunity to present your work and meet a lot of great people in the field. Deadline to apply is September 30!

We're hiring! Apply to the UChicago Data & Democracy Postdoctoral Fellowship—a data-focused, interdisciplinary postdoc with competitive salary & incredible research opportunities w/ Center for Effective Government at UChicago ad Data Science Institute Apply today: bit.ly/data-democracy…

We wrapped up our first panel yesterday "Data Privacy & Ownership" with a dream team of The University of Chicago faculty! Thank you to Raul Castro Fernandez, Marshini Chetty, Molly Offer-Westort, and Lior Strahilevitz for a great discussion! Cc: UChicago Law School UChicago Poli Sci UChicagoCS

The overlap assumption is standard in causal inference. Is it necessary for *policy learning*? Turns out that overlap for the *optimal* policy is sufficient for efficient policy learning, for batched/adaptively collected data!🙌 (1/n) See our new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2212.09900

Please register to join us for the Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science at NYU on March 3rd and 4th at bit.ly/3Ye9gC3. We have a great lineup of panels and posters here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspoliticals…. We hope to see many of you!

We’re hiring! Postdoc opening to work on social impact projects in the GC Lab at the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Faculty Director Susan Athey. Experimentalists preferred but all candidates considered aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Re-posting this for the weekday crowd. Come hang out with us at WUSTL. (And don't be afraid to call yourself a "data scientist." We invite applications from people with a huge variety of skills and interests. If you're not sure --- apply and find out!)

Incorporating insights from the machine learning/causal inference literature into adaptive experimentation improves performance. Our new paper in #AIStats2023:

We are now accepting proposals for the 7th Latin American PolMeth meeting! #LAPolMeth When: 📆 November 17-18, 2023 Where: UFPE, Recife, Brazil (with a virtual option) Deadline: July 30 cambridge.org/core/membershi… Keynotes: Molly Offer-Westort (Chicago) and Noam Lupu (Vanderbilt)

This is a fantastic opportunity for graduate students working in data science—across a wide range of disciplines. Info session Sept 6.

Awesome syllabus; one of my greatest regrets of grad school is not taking a qualitative methods class.

The 2024 syllabus for my Advanced topics Causal Inference & Machine Learning course is up! The University of Chicago Data Science Institute github.com/UChicago-pol-m…

Which interventions limit the spread of COVID-19 misinformation online? A Facebook messenger experiment in Kenya and Nigeria suggests that nudges to consider information accuracy work best. Molly Offer-Westort Leah Rosenzweig Susan Athey @GSBsiLa nature.com/articles/s4156…

How can we promote discernment in online information sharing? A new large-scale experiment with social media users from Kenya and Nigeria, designed by Molly Offer-Westort, Leah Rosenzweig, and Susan Athey, tests interventions to curb misinformation. nature.com/articles/s4156… 1/11

Incredibly honored to join the 2024 #CarnegieFellows! The fellowship will support my research on how people update their views and attitudes in response to the conversations they take part in and the information they engage with online. carnegie.org/awards/honoree… Carnegie Corporation of New York

¡Para agendar! Este jueves, Molly Offer-Westort presenta en CienciaPolítica ITAM. ¡Los/as esperamos!