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Janet Liu @janetlauyeung.bsky.social · 4d

are you attending @colmweb.org 🦙 psst, don't miss our First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research tomorrow #COLM2025

🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour

📍 room 518B

schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...

ChatGPT generated image for the happy hour event after the workshop

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Dec 2

I know the pro version of Claude will let me load up papers, that’s the next approach I’ll take

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Dec 2

I tried similar prompts with the Assistant in SCite, but it gave errors and didn’t produce anything. I think it does better with shorter prompts (“find references to support / disagree with this statement”)

(@scite.bsky.social exists, but I can't tag it)

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Dec 2

When I finally got it to make citations in the style I wanted, many of them were incorrect (which is wild, when there are only 40 or so papers loaded).

In the end, it didn’t save me any time at all

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Dec 2

It writes OK lit review text, but I can’t get it to make usable citations. It makes those little numbers I can hover over, but it’s a ton of manual work to turn those into \cite{xyz} commands.

A lot of complaints about similar issues online: www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm...

From the notebooklm community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the notebooklm community

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Dec 2

Looking for tips on how to use the new AI tools to help with a literature review.

I was so excited about NotebookLM, but my frustration is growing. I uploaded the papers (~40) I want it to draw from, and then spent several hours trying to get it to draft a reasonable lit review *with citations*

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Nov 7

@statstas.bsky.social — your point about totals rather than percents

Gurney Halleck and his 9-foot Balliset @wileymacgyver.bsky.social · Nov 7

The actual number of votes that Trump got is less than he lost with in 2020. This was an absolute failure of Democrats to turn out the vote. I don't think any of these places actually became more Republican

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Gurney Halleck and his 9-foot Balliset @wileymacgyver.bsky.social · Nov 7

The actual number of votes that Trump got is less than he lost with in 2020. This was an absolute failure of Democrats to turn out the vote. I don't think any of these places actually became more Republican

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · May 7

It’s really funny, though not a comedy

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Apr 19

Here’s a paper doing imputation. I read and earlier version, not the latest, and was frustrated that they didn’t compare their ML imputation method to other more traditional imputation approaches.

arxiv.org/pdf/2305.096...

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Apr 19

This is the closest I’ve found:

arxiv.org/abs/2401.08572

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Apr 13

How do you make a scientific case about a method’s usefulness without a proper lit review?

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Apr 12

by synthetic samples, I mean using LLMs to generate survey responses

"imagine you are a 54 year old African American man. Please answer the following survey question..."

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Apr 12

Can anyone point me to a paper, WP, blog post that reviews the literature on synthetic samples? Thank you

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Apr 1

Has anyone used DC’s school lottery as an instrument to evaluate effect of pre-k on subsequent educational achievement ?

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Mar 30

IMO, the worst problem with data analysis a in Excel is how hard it is to trace back where a result came from. Yes, there are now trace dependence and trace precedence buttons, but it still is not nearly as clear as it would be in a script file

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · Mar 26

Took us a while, but we finally put another chapter of our book "Data Collection with #Wearables, #Apps, and #Sensors" online. Chapter 4: Errors of Nonobservation: #Sampling and #Coverage. bookdown.org/wasbook_feed... Let us know what you think! @stephnie.bsky.social

Chapter 4 Errors of nonobservation: Sampling and coverage | Data Collection with Wearables, Apps, and Sensors

bookdown.org

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Mar 24

They really are : “the importance…in some vague sense” IIRC

Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Mar 24

I show students the definitions of the 4 types of weights, to try to prevent them from using aw= (because that’s what the command accepts) when they have pweights. I doubt I’m successful

Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology @jssam.bsky.social · Mar 14

In case you missed it! "Interviewer Involvement in Respondent Selection Moderates the Relationship between Response Rates and Sample Bias in Cross-National Survey Projects in Europe" by Marta Kołczyńska, Piotr Jabkowski & Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jssa...

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Feb 28

@aapor.bsky.social @floriankeusch.bsky.social @daob.nl

Brad Jones @bradjones.bsky.social · Feb 26

Survey researchers of Blue Sky, this is a new initiative of mine, and right now the queue is wide open meaning any new submissions have a high likelihood of acceptance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#polisci #polisky

Call for proposals

docs.google.com

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Brad Jones @bradjones.bsky.social · Feb 26

Survey researchers of Blue Sky, this is a new initiative of mine, and right now the queue is wide open meaning any new submissions have a high likelihood of acceptance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#polisci #polisky

Call for proposals

docs.google.com

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Feb 23

Fantastic thread on data quality issues with inattentive respondents.We can’t weight our way out of these problems if the demographics are provide are wrong

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Feb 23

To your points, yes, this is GESIS. The question was "recent research" and I certainly think "forthcoming at JSSAM" is responsive to that question. But it's not the only study to find that inattentive respondents differ in politically-relevant demographics

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Feb 23

To your points, yes, this is GESIS. The question was "recent research" and I certainly think "forthcoming at JSSAM" is responsive to that question. But it's not the only study to find that inattentive respondents differ in politically-relevant demographics

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Feb 10

Debatable — what do you mean by “very well”?

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Feb 1

Sort of — in R, PLmixed will give you similar results (discrimination, difficulty) to mirt. PLmixed fits “mixed models with factor structures”

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Jan 29

because they're economists 😉?

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Jan 29

Searching for the dates of the next AAPOR conference, I typed in "aapor.org conference." None of the top hits were helpful --previous years, archived site

I think we could use a little Search Engine Optimization, @aapor.bsky.social

In the meantime -- include 2024 in your search (or "79th" 🙄🤪)

search results for "aapor.org conference"

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Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social · Jan 27

Yes — some colleagues want to see an intercept slope version before they’ll trust the results

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Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology @jssam.bsky.social · Jan 26

New Article Alert! "Interviewer Involvement in Respondent Selection Moderates the Relationship between Response Rates and Sample Bias in Cross-National Survey Projects in Europe" by Marta Kołczyńska, Piotr Jabkowski & Stephanie Eckman @stephnie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jssa...

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