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Q-Q Plots and Worm Plots from Scratch

Less Q Q, more pew pew

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Michael Friendly@datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Both of these are traditional graphs for showing the shape of distributions, but both can be improved considerably QQ plot: Better to detrend the graph, plotting the diff between observed and theoretical on Y axis Histogram + fitted: suspend the bars from the curve to see the diff along horiz axis

Hey, tossing out a question for, uh, causal inference sky. If I'm interested in a theory that involves bidirectional causation, say like Bandura, what are good resources for modeling those? See so much about DAGs but not much about messier cyclical stuff...

None of you are safe from the kidsbookification of the behavioral sciences. Watch your backs 👀 It was stupidly fun working on Psychology for Beginners (11+) 🐙 We used an octopus to take kids through perception, cognition, judgement & decision making, and more Why? Because they have 9 brains. Duh.

Such a bizarre time in tech as a user: can use billion dollar models for free. Can't reliably search for and find specific_file.txt on my laptops.

Fascinating talk by @naitian.org about emotions in films. Such clear arcs over narrative time! Emotion increases over the course of the movie, and movies in general have become less emotional. Emotional range (entropy) varies by genre: thrillers have a narrower range than horror. #chr2024

Finally our editorial for the "What makes a good theory?" special issue is out (co-edited with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @jcskewes.bsky.social, Sashank Varma, and Todd Wareham). It's an interdisciplinary issue and the contents are transdisciplinary. #philsci #metasci #cogsci #ai #psych 🧪

What Makes a Good Theory? Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Computational Brain & Behavior

Computational Brain & Behavior -

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Suck it haterz

After a review process so long and intensive that the title changed twice, I'm excited/relieved that "How to Distinguish Motivated Reasoning from Bayesian Updating" is accepted at @polbehavior.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/os... Here is how it's relevant for your Thanksgiving dinner 🦃👇

When I see really clean markdown docs it's such a great smell: indicates tech awareness that has gravitated towards functional simplicity rather than fancy complexities. Love it.

LLMs have done something I didn't think possible: appreciate when something returns json.

Lets see if BlueSky can be as helpful as Old School Twitter. I'm looking for advocates of Administrative Data Access and Linkage across the EU 🇪🇺 Tell me who is making administrative data access happen in 🇮🇹🇪🇸🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇨🇿🇸🇮🇸🇰🇭🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪🇵🇱🇧🇬🇷🇴🇲🇹🇭🇺🇬🇷 This is often unsung work and they don't toot their own horns. RP 🙏

So cool!

Garrick Aden-Buie@grrrck.xyz · 2y ago

🎉 Bring Bluesky-powered comments to your #QuartoPub blog with this new extension. Publish your blog, post about it on Bluesky, then update your blog with `{{< bluesky-comments {post_link} >}}`. Replies to your post become comments! pkg.garrickadenbuie.com/quarto-blues...

Just kidding. Another starter pack will fix me.

Sr. Wing Armor Engineer@bengo.bsky.social · 2y ago

One more hot sauce will fix me.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Economist: The cup reveals how much the consumers like to drink given his budget constraint.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty LLM: Let's delve into this cup.

Arin Dube@arindube.bsky.social · 2y ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Applied micro-economist: After partiality out a cup fixed effect, results are robust to the cup being half full or half empty.

This is an amazing starter pack for anyone interested in Decision Science. #starterpack #decisionscience go.bsky.app/8nDKmwG

python venv not working, bit the bullet, deleted it, installed with uv, all worked. ????

a man is sitting at a desk working on a computer .

ALT: a man is sitting at a desk working on a computer .

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Today my eight year old was cheering and jumping up and down upstairs, so I went to see what he was watching on youtube and it was a video showing the GDP of countries growing over time. I asked him why he found it so exciting — he put two fingers on my chest and said “that’s none of your business.”

Correct both-things-can-be-true synthesis. Gov-funded research is extremely high ROI and almost all of it is useless.

One more hot sauce will fix me.

Working with LLMs sooo much nicer with some nicely organized structured generation.

Wait, you're on bluesky now? Me: That's right.

When the gang all gets back together

scooby doo and his friends read a book together

ALT: scooby doo and his friends read a book together

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Not what u asked for but Joel Schneider has a lot of good resources that include nice visualizations (some animated). Link below to a tutorial of EFA (more on this site and an older site of his on Wordpress): wjschne.github.io/tutorials/EFA/ Joel is also a great person and taught me a bunch.

W. Joel Schneider

A step-by-step introduction to exploratory factor analysis in R

wjschne.github.io

anyone know if there’s a place to search starter packs?

Welcome @cepr.org @nberpubs.bsky.social @aeajournals.bsky.social @qjeharvard.bsky.social, who all joined Bluesky recently! I added you and other new econ institutions' accounts to this Starter Pack. Thanks for posting here! go.bsky.app/4deCZJ2

Feeding the sci-fi books to the machine to manufacture garbled regurgitations of the sci-fi books' messages about the inevitable and horrifying consequences of feeding the goddamn sci-fi books to the goddamn machine