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Thank you Gavy 🥳

And a bigger thank you to all the people from Senator Wiener, to @streetsforall.org, to all the people who have been yelling about this from (our currently less-dense) rooftops 🤩

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 2d

So true especially if LLMs get even better at generating code

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 2d

Me trying to convince junior data scientists that you have to master the basics first so that the more complex stuff is easier down the line

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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 2d

NYC based instructors: we're looking for an adjunct for a graduate level Ethics of Data Science class this Spring. Please share widely

apply.interfolio.com/175474

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 3d

Yasssss

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Alex Franks @amfranks.bsky.social · 3d

I've been thinking about developing this course for a little while, and the @chelseaparlett.bsky.social post and reaction may be the tipping point for me to finally take it on: bsky.app/profile/chel...

Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 17d

Data Science programs often put too little emphasis on causal inference, and it’s hurting their graduates on the job market! The econometrics people are coming for your jobs lol

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 3d

My fave books to teach from rn are @nickchk.com’s the Effect, with @travisgerke.bsky.social @lucystats.bsky.social and @malcolmbarrett.malco.io’s Causal Inf in R

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hell yeah !!

I’m excited to see this taught at the undergraduate level. At the university I teach at CI is really only covered at the graduate level 👀 the most I did at the undergraduate level was a single IPW lecture after teaching linear/logistic regression.

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 4d

fuck that’s a confounder😟

A DAG showing that stats KSAs cause both social media and success

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 4d

Nova the urbanism corgi is the headline image for the OpEd @tonypelleriti.bsky.social wrote about how newspapers cover public transit vs. car-centric projects 👀

voiceofoc.org/2025/10/pell...

Pelleriti: Streets, Cars, and Streetcars

The discrepancy in how freeway vs. public transit projects are scrutinized in the U.S. is hard to understate. Nowhere is that better demonstrated than the OC Streetcar.

voiceofoc.org

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 4d

So many things, wonderful collaborations, podcast appearances, consulting opportunities and jobs are indirectly or directly due in part to my social media presence!

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 4d

You gotta laugh so you don’t cry🥹

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 5d

a cartoon of spongebob and patrick standing next to a campfire with the words " write that down write that down " above them

ALT: a cartoon of spongebob and patrick standing next to a campfire with the words " write that down write that down " above them

media.tenor.com

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 5d

Counter factual??? You mean FAKE NEWS???

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 5d

I think it’s fun😂 and people get so much joy out of being surprised by base 2.

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