I've been playing around with GitHub Copilot over the past few days. So far, my main impression is that it is a Google level autocomplete for code. You start an R file with the comment: # Import packages and it will fill in library(ggplot2) Just as Google autocomplete reveals the hive-mind of the internet with its autocompletions, GitH...

1. "Doubly Robust Confidence Sequences for Sequential Causal Inference" (Wauby-Smith et al. 2021): The data I typically work with comes in a stream--customers taking actions on a website. However, the traditional experimental analysis tools (e.g. t-tests) don't take advantage of this. Last month I was thinking about how we could improv...

1. The Weather Detective (Wohlleben, 2018): Being more attentive to my day, activities, relationships, and the world around me generally is one of the reasons I've started typing up this "Reading List" series. It helps me pay more attention to what I'm reading and learning. This book also helps with attention; being more attentive to t...

Writing W1. "Getting Started with Privacy First Data Science": A little blog post I put together on how to recursively calculate means and variances. Useful because you don't have to keep individuals's data, but can do pretty much the same data science on aggregate populations that you were doing before. W2. "3 Key Responsibilities of ...

I'll undoubtedly evolve this list further, but right now, I'm thinking that the three key areas where a research manager needs to focus are: 1. Strategy: Everything starts from the strategy. Without a clear and impactful purpose, your team's efforts will be wasted. A great manager does not build a strategy alone. It is very unlikely th...

Some things that jumped out at me from what I've been reading over the past week or so: • "Randomized Controlled Trials with Minimal Data Retention" (Winston Chou): The author discusses methods for recursively estimating key statistics from A/B tests (e.g. mean, variance). Why is this important? Because it reduces the amount of time th...