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
Identifying Signatures of Selection in Archaeological Sequences Ben Marwick, Anthropology, University of Washington
12/04/2019
Not all that wiggle are LOESS: Archaeological detection of multimillennial population dynamics using proportionate juvenility indexes and radial basis function logistic regression William Brown, Statistics, University of Washington
10/16/2019
Modeling Missing Data in Large-Scale Educational Assessments Chun Wang, College of Education, University of Washington
10/09/2019
Rewriting Violence: Risk Effects and the Targeting of Journalists in Mexico's Criminal Conflict Cassy Dorff, Political Science and Data Science, Vanderbilt University
05/29/2019
Three principles of data science: predictability, computability, and stability (PCS) Bin Yu, Departments of Statistics and EECS, University of California, Berkeley
05/08/2019
Gotta' Have Money to Make Money? Theory and Evidence Linking Financial Need with The Bargaining Behavior of Microentrepreneurs Morgan Hardy, Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi
04/17/2019
Bayesian Framework for Finding Relevant Macro Factors in Affine Term Structure Models Kyu Ho Kang, Economics, Korea University
04/10/2019
CSSS/STAT Poster Session Darryl Holman, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
03/19/2019
Finite mixture of regression modeling for exchange market pressures during the financial crisis: A robust Bayesian approach to variable selection Yi-Chi Chen, Department of Economics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
03/13/2019
Continuous-time MCMC Paul Fearnhead, Statistics, Lancaster University
03/06/2019
Bayesian finite mixture models in archaeological temporal frequency analysis (TFA) William Brown, Anthropology and CSSS, University of Washington
02/27/2019
Correlated Random Effects as a Tool for Inferential Social Science Jeremy Koster, Anthropology, University of Cincinnati
02/13/2019
We're Not Surprised You Didn't Notice That: Linguistic Surprisal and Misperception in Conversation Courtney Mansfield, Linguistics, University of Washington
01/30/2019
Relative Risk and Risk Difference Regression as Alternatives to Logistic Regression Thomas Richardson, Statistics, Economics, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
01/16/2019
What Counts as Terrorism? An Examination of Terrorist Designations among U.S. Mass Shootings Emily Gade, eScience Institute and Department of Political Science, University of Washington
12/05/2018
Mathematics of Gerrymandering Christopher Hoffman, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
11/07/2018
Data Analytics on Small and/or Large High-Dimensional Observations in Finance and Beyond - The Credit Research Initiative at the National University of Singapore Jinchuan Duan, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore
10/24/2018
Is the Place of Residence Predictive of HIV Acquisition in Rural South Africa? Results from an Ongoing Population-based Cohort in KwaZulu-Natal Adrian Dobra, Statistics, Nursing, CSSS, University of Washington
10/17/2018
Assessing Mortality Bias from Skeletal Markers Darryl Holman, Anthropology and CSSS, University of Washington
10/10/2018
Bayesian and Heuristic Models of Human Causal Inference Colin Beam, Ursa Health
05/30/2018
On the Top of World: Human Adaptation to High Altitude Abigail Bigham, Anthropology, University of Michigan
05/09/2018
Pricing and Matching in Ride-Hailing Dawn Woodard, Uber
05/02/2018
Risk assessment in Criminal Sentencing: Target Variable Bias and Disparate Impact Alexandra Chouldechova, Statistics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
04/25/2018
Sleep-more in Seattle: Using circadian data to investigate sleep, academics, and behavior Gideon Dunster, Biology, University of Washington
04/18/2018
The Generalizability of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimates Across Samples Thomas Leeper, Political Science, London School of Economics
04/11/2018
Distributed Multi-Level Matrix Completion for Medical Databases Julie Josse, Applied Math Department (CMAP), Professor of Statistics
02/28/2018
Person-generated Data in Public Health and Beyond Rumi Chanara, New York University
02/07/2018
Gender-Based Homophily in Scientific Collaborations Elena Erosheva, Statistics and Social Work, University of Washington
01/31/2018
How Many Friends Do You Have? An Empirical Investigation into Censoring-Induced Bias in Social Network Data Alan Griffith, Economics, University of Washington
12/06/2017
How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts Brandon Stewart, Sociology, Princeton University
11/29/2017
Record Linkage and Population Size Estimation for Counting Human Rights Violations Mauricio Sadinle, Biostatistics, University of Washington
11/15/2017
Using Sampled Social Network Data to Estimate Adult Death Rates Dennis Feehan, Demography, UC Berkeley
11/08/2017
Analyzing GPS Datasets using Density Ranking Yen-Chi Chen, Statistics, University of Washington
11/01/2017
Rapid On-ramps to Reproducible Research for R Users Ben Marwick, Archaeology, University of Washington
10/25/2017
Bayesian Age-Period-Cohort Models in Practice Andrea Riebler, Statistics, Norwegian University of Science at Technology
10/18/2017
Inference in Increasing Dimension Fang Han, Statistics, University of Washington
10/11/2017
Partial Identification in Moment Equality Models with Auxiliary D Yanqin Fan, Economics, University of Washington
05/17/2017
How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information Molly Roberts, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
05/03/2017
A Network Model for Dynamic Textual Communications with Application to Government Email Corpora Bruce Desmarais, Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
04/19/2017
Inference for Social Network Models from Egocentrically-Sampled Data Pavel Krivitsky, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
03/29/2017
Exploratory and Confirmatory Causal Inference for High Dimensional Interventions Justin Grimmer, Political Science, Stanford University
03/08/2017
Using a Probabilistic Model to Assist Merging of Large-scale Administrative Records Kosuke Imai, Political Science, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University
03/01/2017
Integrating Multiple Time Scales: A Framework Emerging at the Interface of Intraindividual Variability Modeling and Ecological Momentary Assessment Nilam Ram, Human Development and Family Studies, and Psychology, Pennsylvania State University
02/22/2017
Pairwise difference approach for partially linear model: some real gains Fang Han, Statistics, University of Washington
02/15/2017
Central Bank Transparency and the Performance of Market Expectations Caitlin Ainsley, Political Science, University of Washington
02/08/2017
Measuring key drivers of parental concern about child health Davene Wright, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Hospital
01/25/2017
Does the Match Matter? Exploring Whether Student Teaching Experiences Affect Teacher Effectiveness Roderick Theobald, American Institutes for Research
01/18/2017
Networks and Deviance in the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic Marissa King, School of Management, Yale
01/11/2017
Graphical Models for Discrete and Continuous Data Johannes Lederer, Statistics, University of Washington
01/04/2017
Packaging data analytical work reproducibly using R (and friends) Ben Marwick, Archaeology, University of Washington
11/09/2016
Interlocking directorates in Irish companies using bipartite networks: a latent space approach Adrian Raftery, Statistics, Sociology, University of Washington
10/19/2016
Standard errors for exchangeable relational arrays Tyler McCormick, Statistics, Sociology, CSSS, University of Washington
10/12/2016
Real-time Bayesian parameter estimation for item response models - with application to Internet ratings data Ruby Chiu-Hsing Weng, Statistics, National Chengchi University
10/05/2016
Online social interactions: a lens on humans and a world for humans Chenhao Tan, Computer Science, University of Washington
09/28/2016
Causal Inference without Control Units Adam Glynn, Political Science, Emory University
06/01/2016
Scalable Bayesian Models of Interacting Time Series Emily B Fox, Statistics, University of Washington
05/25/2016
Assortative Mixing in Activity-based Online Social Networks Zack Almquist, Department of Sociology and School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
05/18/2016
Rethinking Data Science for the Social Sciences Panel: Urban Sociology Sarah Brayne, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
05/04/2016
Rethinking Data Science for the Social Sciences Panel: Urban Sociology Karen Seto, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale
05/04/2016
Rethinking Data Science for the Social Sciences Panel: Urban Sociology Megan Comfort, RTI International
05/04/2016
Neighborhood and Network Segregation Ott S. Toomet, The Information School, University of Washington
04/27/2016
From Pixels to Points: Using Tracking Data to Measure Performance in Professional Sports Alexander Franks, Statistics
04/20/2016
Happy Git and GitHub for the useR Jennifer Bryan, Statistics, University of British Columbia
03/09/2016
Less is more? How demographic sample weights can improve public opinion estimates based on Twitter data Pablo Barbera, NYU Center for Data Science
02/24/2016
PEAR: A Massively Parallel Evolutionary Computational Approach for Political Redistricting Optimization and Analysis Wendy Cho, Political Science, University of Illinois
02/10/2016
Building The New York Times Fourth Down Bot Trey Causey, ChefSteps
02/03/2016
A computational approach for interdisciplinary work and anticipatory policy-making: An exploration of social effect from climate change in the central Andes Jose Manuel Magallanes, eScience Institute
01/27/2016
For Whom is the Treatment Effective? An Atheoretic Inductive Approach to Identifying Response Heterogeneity Mark C Long, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
01/13/2016
Discovering Hidden Structure in the Sparse Regime Sham Kakade, Dept of Statistics, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineerin
01/06/2016
Long-Term Consequences of Consumption Seasonality Brian M Dillon, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance
12/02/2015
Rethinking Data Science for the Social Sciences: Social Inequality and Health Panel: Rethinking Data
11/18/2015
Subnational Estimates of the Global Gender Gap using Online Data Bogdan State, Sociology, Facebook
10/28/2015
From Language to the Mind: Learning to Read Deception, Connotation and Literary Success Yejin Choi, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
10/21/2015
Geographic Variation in the Cumulative Risk of Maltreatment and Foster Care Placement Christopher Wildeman, Sociology, Cornell University
10/14/2015
Visualization and Interactive Data Analysis Jeffrey Heer, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
06/03/2015
How Much Does Corruption Harm Economic Performance? Using One-Sided Conditional Relationships as Instrumental Variables for Causal Identification Justin Esarey, Political Science, Rice University
05/20/2015
CSSS Course Preview CSSS Course Preview, University of Washington
05/13/2015
Testing order-constrained hypotheses in social science research Joris Mulder, Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University
05/06/2015
Old and new methods for benchmarking efficiency of health facilities Abraham D. Flaxman, Global Health, University of Washington
04/29/2015
Predicting Irregular Leadership Changes in 2015 Michael Ward, Political Science, Duke University
04/22/2015
Measuring and Mapping Poverty and Wealth with Passively-Collected Mobile Phone Data Joshua Blumenstock, Information School, University of Washington
04/15/2015
The Political Legacy of American Slavery Maya Sen, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
04/08/2015
Online Bayesian Inference for Latent Ability Models Ruby Chui-Hsing Weng, Statistics, National Chengchi University
04/01/2015
Improving Teacher Hiring: The Effect of Inter-Rater and Intra-Rater Reliability in the Screening Process Patricia Martinkova, Statistics, University of Washington
03/11/2015
