News archive
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NSF funding:
Project on "Algorithms and Data for High-Frequency, Real-Time Anomaly Detection" with the amazing Rumi Chunara funded by the NSF. Thanks to the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments for connecting us.
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New working paper:
Using Aggregated Relational Data to feasibly identify network structure without network data.Update!
Revision requested at The American Economic Review.
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New working paper:
Standard errors for regression on relational data with exchangeable errors.
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Uncertainty in respondent-driven sampling:
New paper.
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Multiresolution network models:
New working paper and slides.
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NSF funding:
Project on "Compact Bayesian Models of Massive Social Graphs" with Josh Blumenstock funded by the NSF.
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Coverage by Reuters:
Work on health behavior communities on social media covered by Reuters. Our wonderful team: Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Hedy Lee, and Megan Moreno.
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Internships:
Richard Li will spend the summer at Microsoft Research and Rebecca Ferrell will be at Adobe. Congratulations Richard and Rebecca!
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Promotion:
I've been promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) effective September 2016. I'm honored and supremely grateful to the many, many giants who've so generously lent me their shoulders.
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Congratulations Tsuyoshi:
WRF/Moore-Sloan postdoc advisee Tsuyoshi Kunihama has accepted a faculty position at the School of Economics at Nagoya University.
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Paper award:
Congratulations to Ted Westling for winning a 2016 Section on Bayesian Statistical Science student paper award for our paper on variational inference and M-estimation.
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NY Times:
Paper with Hedy Lee cited in NY Times article on mass incarceration.
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DataInformed:
Blog post about upcoming JSM session with Cynthia Rudin!
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K01 Award:
I'm excited to announce that I've been awarded a NIH Career Development Award for work on estimating vital rates in developing countries! Related work: here and here.
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Spring 2015 Research group:
Every second and fourth Wednesday from 9-10:30am in the WRF Data Science Studio. Check out the schedule here. All are welcome!
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Teaching Spring 2015:
SOC 506/CSSS 507, Quantitative methods in sociology (schedule)
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Research group:
Every second and fourth Wednesday from 4:30-6pm in the WRF Data Science Studio. Check out the schedule here. All are welcome!
Twitter:
@tylermccormick
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FierceBigData:
Post at FierceBigData, "4 high impact zones in statistical discovery with big data."
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Data science:
I've been appointed a Senior Data Science Fellow of the eScience Institute for 2014-2015.
Amstat News:
American Statistical Association working group piece on statistics and data science.
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Coverage in Time:
How Twitter Knows When You Are Depressed.
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Technical reports:
A list of current technical reports and working papers is here.
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