The Landscape of Lawmaking John D. Wilkerson, Political Science, UW
10/09/2024
Striking the Right Balance: Why Standard Balance Tests Over-Reject the Null, and How to Fix It Jason Kerwin, Economics, UW
10/02/2024
Deconvolution in Networks, with Applications to Worker-Firm Data Stephane Bonhomme
05/29/2024
The Promise and Peril of State Administrative Data: An Example from an Evaluation of Low-Barrier Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Jason R Williams
05/22/2024
Project NEXUS: Methodology and Results from a Survey of Underrepresented People Who Use Drugs: 9 U.S. Syringe Services Programs Sara Glick
05/08/2024
Kaylea Champion, Chin-Wei Chen, & Nathan Welch + Graduating Student Awards
05/01/2024
A latent Markov model with two parallel processes for modeling inter-generational exchanges Irini Moustaki
04/24/2024
A discussion on transitioning from academia to industry Stephanie Lee & Lynette Shaw
04/17/2024
Data science with communities in the loop Madeleine Daepp
04/10/2024
Can we change “ideal worker” norms? The impact of workplace policies, composition, and post-pandemic culture Elizabeth Hirsh
04/03/2024
Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi Amanda Clayton
03/27/2024
What is driving low rates of childhood vaccination in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)? Roy Burstein
03/06/2024
Sugared fruit drinks as a sociobehavioral determinant of health in Alaska Native communities Donald Chi
02/28/2024
Homogenizing the High Street: the Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination Asli Cansunar
02/21/2024
Imputing Race and Ethnicity in State Administrative Data: Challenges and Future Directions Lizzy Pelletier
02/14/2024
Am I redundant? How AI will shape the Future of Work Shamsi T. Iqbal
02/07/2024
Probabilistic Subnational Population Projections Hana Sevcikova
01/31/2024
Data Science, Machine Learning, and Responsible AI: CSSS and Careers in Tech Trey Causey
01/24/2024
Do Inclusionary Zoning Policies Affect Local Housing Markets? An Empirical Study in the United States Vince Wang
01/17/2024
Agent-based modeling in women’s health: Building Fpsim Michelle O'Brien
01/10/2024
What if I only care about L1 X-Y relations? Clustered data analytic options Elizabeth Sanders
11/29/2023
Potential Impacts of Mass Nutritional Supplementation on Measles Dynamics: A Simulation Study Navideh Noori
11/15/2023
Numerators and Denominators in Health Disparities Research: What linked Electronic Health Record and American Community Survey Data Reveal Barbara Entwisle
11/08/2023
Cartoons, Captions, and Confidence Intervals Lalit Jain
11/01/2023
Bayesian Resolution of Discrepant Self-Reported Network Ties Krista Gile
10/25/2023
Estimating Global and Country-Specific Excess Mortality by Age and Sex During the COVID-19 Pandemic Jon Wakefield
10/18/2023
Exploring the Effects of Item-Specific Factors in Tree-Based Item Response Models Weicong Lyu
10/11/2023
Very Long-Term Probabilistic Population Projections for Assessing the Social Cost of Carbon Adrian Raftery
10/04/2023
Correcting for misclassification bias in cause-specific mortality estimates Abhi Datta, Johns Hopkins
05/31/2023
How to think clearly about the central limit theorem Oscar Olvera Astivia
05/24/2023
Inference on Winners Isaiah Andrews, Harvard
05/17/2023
How Biased are Observational Methods in Practice? Accumulating Evidence Using Randomised Controlled Trials with Imperfect Compliance Gharad Bryan, LSE
05/10/2023
CSSS Graduating PhD Student Highlights
04/26/2023
Effect of an opt-out point-of-care HIV-1 nucleic acid testing intervention to detect acute and prevalent HIV infection in symptomatic adult outpatients and reduce HIV transmission in Kenya: The Tambua Mapema Plus Study Susan Graham
04/19/2023
Regulating Ethics: The Status and Stakes of Institutional Ethical Review for the Social Sciences Rebecca Tapscott
04/12/2023
Bayesian methods for inferring the history of languages [Virtual] Robin Ryder
04/05/2023
When opportunity meets ability: The moderating effects of prolific inventors on novel drug innovation following product development failure in biotechnology [Hybrid] Amrita Lahiri
03/08/2023
Opportunities in Everyday Technology Research for Children with Autism [Virtual Only] Frederick Shic
03/01/2023
15 surgeons and 2 engineers: Adventures in "big" data and causal analyses to advance mobility for children with cerebral palsy [Hybrid] Kat Steele
02/22/2023
"I will just have to keep driving": A Mixed-methods Investigation of Thai Motorcycle Rideshare Driver Responses to Poor Air Quality [Hybrid] Kurtis Heimerl
02/15/2023
Disentangling confounding and nonsense associations due to dependence [Hybrid] Betsy Ogburn
02/08/2023
Lessons being learned from an open-source causal AI suite [Hybrid] Emre Kiciman
02/01/2023
Toss the bathwater, keep the baby: how p-values can still be useful Chloe Krakauer
01/25/2023
Data analysis tools for statistical non-experts [Hybrid] Eunice Jun
01/18/2023
Transforming Experimental Neural Functioning Variables into FDA Validated Biomarkers [Hybrid] Sara Jane Webb
01/11/2023
Modeling Spatially Correlated Survival Data and their Applications [Hybrid] Prince Allotey, Statistics, University of Washington
11/16/2022
Recasting the Debate on SARS-CoV-2 Origins in Bayesian Terms [Virtual Only] Tasha Fairfield, International Development, The London School of Economics and Political Science
11/09/2022
The Benefits and Challenges of Large-Scale Studies that Rely on Mobile Technology: Lessons learned over 15 years [Virtual Only] Pat Areán, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
11/02/2022
Leading or following?: (non)correspondence between media and user frame networks on YouTube channels of right-wing news organizations [Hybrid] Yuan Hsiao, Communication, University of Washington
10/26/2022
Generalized difference-in-differences models: Robust Bounds [Hybrid] Désiré Kédagni, Economics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
10/19/2022
Randomized Regulation: The impact of minimum quality standards on health markets [Hybrid] Jishnu Das, McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
10/12/2022
CSSS End-of-Year Ceremony and 2022-2023 Course Overview (Virtual Only)
06/01/2022
Gendered Language Owen Ozier , Economics, Williams College
05/25/2022
Quantifying Racial Bias in Policing with Imperfect Data Dean Knox, Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania
05/18/2022
Two High-Profile Examples of Selection Bias (This Seminar is Virtual-Only) Qingyuan Zhao, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge
05/11/2022
Using Multitask Gaussian Processes to Estimate the Effect of a Targeted Effort to Remove Firearms Avi Feller, Public Policy and Statistics, University of California - Berkeley
05/04/2022
The Effect of Income on Educational Outcomes: The Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects of a Continuous Treatment Ian Lundberg, Sociology, UCLA
04/27/2022
Geometric Inference Via Graph Laplacians Dena Asta, Statistics, Ohio State University
04/20/2022
Health Certification in Sex Markets: A Field Experiment in Dakar, Senegal Shanthi Manian, Economics, Washington State University
04/13/2022
Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks Peter Hull, Economics, Brown University
04/06/2022
Study Designs to Estimate Policy Effects: Applications to COVID-19 and Opioid Policies Elizabeth Stuart, Statistics, Johns Hopkins
03/30/2022
Bridging Matching, Regression, and Weighting as Mathematical Programs for Causal Inference José R. Zubizarreta, Statistics, Harvard
03/09/2022
Assessing Differences in Legislators’ Revealed Preferences: Testing Sharp Hypotheses in Latent Spaces Abel Rodriguez, Statistics, UW
03/02/2022
Leaders' Role in Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mobile Banking in Ghana Emma Riley, Economics, UW
02/23/2022
Total Causal Effects in MPDAGs: Identification and Minimal Enumeration Ema Perkovic, Statistics, UW
02/16/2022
Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Sociology, University of Minnesota
02/09/2022
Identifying the Latent Space Geometry of Network Models Through Analysis of Curvature Tyler McCormick , Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, UW
02/02/2022
Uncovering College Effect Heterogeneity Jennie Brand, Sociology, UCLA
01/26/2022
Uniform Inference on Conditional Treatment Effects in Difference-in-Differences Designs Pedro Sant'Anna, Office of the Chief Economist, Microsoft
01/19/2022
Black-White Disparities in National Institutes of Health Grant Review Scores Carole Lee, Philosophy, UW
01/12/2022
No seminar First week of quarter
01/05/2022
The Impact of U.S.-China Tensions on U.S. Science Molly Roberts, Political Science, UC San Diego
12/08/2021
How parochial are we really? Matching methods to questions to better characterize human sociality Anne Pisor, Anthropology, Washington State University
12/01/2021
No Seminar Day before Thanksgiving
11/24/2021
Gender, Violence, and Triage: Complainant Identity and Criminal Justice in India Nirvikar Jassal, King Center on Global Development, Stanford
11/17/2021
Technology and the State: Building Tax Capacity via Text Isabelle Cohen, Evans School, University of Washington
11/10/2021
A cautionary note on the use of the third-order polynomial method in simulation studies Oscar Olvera Astivia, College of Education, University of Washington
11/03/2021
Transparent and Robust Causal Inference in the Social and Health Sciences Carlos Cinelli, Statistics, University of Washington
10/27/2021
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: When Machines Learn Human-like Biases from Data Aylin Caliskan, Information School, University of Washington
10/20/2021
You Said, They Said: A Framework on Informant Accuracy with Application to Studying Self-Reports and Peer-Reports of Adolescent Smoking Weihua An, Sociology, Emory University
10/13/2021
Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogenous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments Victor Chernozhukov, Economics, MIT
10/06/2021
No seminar First day of quarter
09/29/2021
CSSS End-of-Year Ceremony and 2021-2022 Course Overview
05/26/2021
Uncovering dehumanization with computational linguistics: a case study of LGBTQ representation in the New York Times Julia Mendelsohn (she/her), School of Information, University of Michigan
01/20/2021
Policy Voting in Elections: Field Experimental Evidence from 12.8 Million Voters in 82 Congressional Districts Josh Kalla (Pronouns: He/Him/His), Political Science and Data Science, Assistant Professor, Yale University
12/09/2020
Qualified Quantification & the Human Remains Trade: Computational Methods to See the People Behind the Price Tags Dr. Damien Huffer (pronouns: he/him/his), History, Carleton University, Ottowa, ON, Canada
11/25/2020
Pattern graphs: a graphical approach to nonmonotone missing data Yen-Chi Chen, Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of Washington
11/18/2020
No Seminar
06/03/2020
CSSS End-of-Year Ceremony and 2020-2021 Course Preview
05/27/2020
Assessing Attitude Strength Using the Audio from Open-Ended Questions From Telephone, In-Person, and Online Surveys Bryce J. Dietrich, Assistant Professor of Social Science Informatics, Social Science Informatics, University of Iowa
05/20/2020
Revealing the concealed gender gap in the economic value of higher education; USA 1980-2017 Hadas Mandel, Head and Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology; Assaf Rotman, Post-doctoral Researcher, Anthropology and Sociology, Tel Aviv University
05/13/2020
Empirical Bayes for A/B testing and meta-analysis: a spectral approach Richard Guo, PhD candidate, Statistics, University of Washington
05/06/2020
Technical and statistical issues in wastewater-based drug epidemiology Jason R Williams, Research Scientist, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington
04/22/2020
When the Rivers Run Backwards: Field studies and statistical analyses of an indigenous social movement in northern Coclé province, Republic of Panama, in the face of a planned Panama Canal expansion Nina Müller-Schwarze, Temporary Part-Time Lecturer (UW) and Senior Research Fellow (Southern Food and Beverage Museum), University of Washington; Precarity; Southern Food and Beverage Museum, New Orleans
04/15/2020
Instead of Just Teaching Data Science, Let’s Understand How and Why People Do It Rebecca Nugent, Stephen E. and Joyce Fienberg Professor of Statistics & Data Science, Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University
04/08/2020
Introduction to the Spring 2020 CSSS Seminar Series William Brown, Temporary Full-time Lecturer, Statistics and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington
04/01/2020
Hindered Growth Moshe Elitzur, University of California, Berkeley and University of Kentucky
03/04/2020
Informed Outbreak Response: Adaptive Strategies to Account for Behavior and Context in Containing Ebola Laura Skrip, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Institute for Disease Modeling
02/26/2020
Turning Polity Upside Down Michael D. Ward, Political Science, Duke University and the University of Washington, Predictive Heuristics; Duke University; University of Washington
02/12/2020
Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding: Measuring and Testing Democratic Performance in the U.S. States Jacob M. Grumbach, Political Science, University of Washington
02/05/2020
