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Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology. Home of the #A3SR Masters program. Tweets by @daphnaharel.
New York, NY
Joined December 2018
Welcome to the Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology at @nyuniversity. We're also the home of the Applied Statistics for Social Science Research #A3SR Masters program. Follow for #AppliedStats and general NYU happenings.
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Who Gets In? AI-generated essays in college admissions. Join us & @AustinVanLoon to learn about how GAI in college admission essays may reshape demographic makeup of admitted students & transform how merit is evaluated. Wed 5/7, 10 am ET (Hybrid) .RSVP:
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Are All Items Created Equal? Uncovering Item-Level Heterogeneous Treatment Effects. Join us & Josh Gilbert to learn how to unmask hidden treatment effects within individual test items using Item Response Theory. 📅 Wed. 4/2 at 10 am ET (Zoom).RSVP ➡️
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Can AI-powered textbots improve survey interviews?Join us & Dr. Soubhik Barari to examine how they can enhance response quality and scalability, while considering challenges in bias and respondent experience. 📆 Wed. 3/5 at 10 am ET (Hybrid) .RSVP ➡️ 📷
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Want to make shorter surveys? Use better measures! . Join us & Dr. Alfonso Martinez (@AlfonsoMPsych) to learn how to construct adaptive assessments with items that allow for continuous (as opposed to discrete) responses. Wed. 2/12 at 10 am ET (Zoom).RSVP:
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Join us & Dr. Johann Gaebler (@jgaeb1) to learn how to test for racial discrimination using a hybrid approach of benchmark and outcome tests. 📅 Wed. 11/13 @ 10 am ET (Hybrid).RSVP ➡️
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Check out this research by @DaphnaHarel and @DepressdP.
Have you ever wondered if the mode of administration matters for depression screeners? Does it matter if it's administered face-to-face or on paper? Check this out:. @DepressdP @nyusteinhardt @NYU_PRIISM.
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Join us & Dr. Jules Wood (@quant_wood) this week to learn how to create high quality gender dysphoria and minority stress scales for trans and nonbinary adolescents. 📅Wed. 10/30 @ 10 am ET (Zoom). RSVP ➡️
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Susu Zhang joined us last week at our PRIISM seminar to show us how to incorporate behavioral and response process data into measurement models for item responses. Watch the recording ➡️
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11/11 More generally, it is also about how early releases of anonymised data can be used by researchers to try and help support the fight against diseases’ spread. Read the paper:
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Using publicly available data, this paper investigates the diffusion of COVID-19 across neighborhoods in two major cities, London and New York. We link neighborhood demographics to incidence, and we...
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10/11 So, this is a story of how improved coordination between key global hotspots would have helped inform health authorities as to what was coming and which communities were more likely to be affected. [. ].
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9/11 We identify eight distinct periods and build a narrative around which communities were most infected in some waves and not in others. [. ].
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8/11 Crucially, it was often the case that the waves passed through demographically similar communities with this same approximate time lag. [. ].
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7/11 better grasp how the virus spread over time. We quickly identified that successive Covid-19 waves hit London first and then NYC approximately 2 weeks later [. ].
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6/11 By using this information on how the virus spread differently in these demographics, we looked at areas that were quite ‘specialised’ in one or two of these demographics to [. ].
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5/11 Our ecological approach builds on previous research of @Vnafilyan @aliciacita @MariaGlymour who used individual patient data to identify different rates at which different demographic groups (essential workers, ethnic minority, high income, etc.) were contracting covid [. ].
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4/11 We make use of precise localised data (MSOAs and ZIP codes) to compare week after week what happened in the two great cities. [. ].
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3/11 This tells us that in future pandemics, the big cities of this world should prioritise cooperation and communication in order to anticipate which communities are affected. [. ].
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2/11 In the same week that the Covid-19 enquiry has reminded us of this dark period in our lives, @MarcScott1515 @augustindecoulo's pandemic paper has been published! [. ].
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📢PUBLICATION ALERT: “A TALE OF 2 CITIES: LONDON and NEW YORK during COVID-19” by @MarcScott1515 (NYU PRIISM co-director) & @augustindecoulo (Kings College London). 1/11 Timely news! Read more in this 🧵. Read the full paper: @NYU_ASH @DaphnaHarel.
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Using publicly available data, this paper investigates the diffusion of COVID-19 across neighborhoods in two major cities, London and New York. We link neighborhood demographics to incidence, and we...
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Join us and @yuqi_gu this week to learn about an alternative to Latent Class Analysis, the Grade of Membership model and its estimation with multivariate categorical data. 📅 Wed. 10/9 @ 10 am ET (Hybrid). RSVP ➡️
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