New paper out with @monjalexander.bsky.social and @rohanalexander.bsky.social using Kitagawa decomposition to examine the rate and composition components of the non-Hispanic Black/white racial disparity in US infant mortality, 2003-2024 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Decomposition of Black and White Infant Mortality Rates

This cross-sectional study uses 22 years of mortality data to quantify gestational age distribution and mortality rates in infants born to Black mothers compared with infants born to White mothers.

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I’m recruiting a PhD student to come work with me at UT San Antonio. I have 3 years of support, so this would be good for someone with a masters degree. If you’re interested in working on Bayesian methods in demographic research, spatial analysis, and using AI tools for social science research

I am extremely excited that I will be rejoining The University of Texas at San Antonio beginning this fall as full professor in the Department of Sociology and Demography. Working in the private sector, and in nonprofits have given me a wealth of new perspectives to bring back to the academic world.

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

When reporters would ask me about "how will the public see the effects of DOGE?" my answer was pretty unsatisfying. 1. Performance declines in orgs that deliver direct and measurable services (e.g. IRS, VA, SSA) 2. Emergencies reveal lack of expertise when you need it. The Iran war is a #2 case.

Mike Levin@mikelevin.org · 7mo ago

6 months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump admin fired the State Dept. oil and gas experts. The people who modeled exactly this scenario. The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries. Now nobody knows who to call. You can't make this up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I’m excited to share a new County Health Explorer, an interactive R #Shiny application for #mapping and analyzing public health data across U.S. counties. lnkd.in/dbMHnVid The app integrates two national datasets: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps and CDC Code is on GitHub at lnkd.in/dmY5NJYD

I saw a post on LInkedin yesterday using @usbls.bsky.social JOLTS data, so I made a #Shiny app to display the monthly employment and hiring data for states, and for all states in a map. The app is here: corey-sparks.shinyapps.io/jolts_state_... and the code is on github github.com/coreysparks/...

Coming tomorrow. It’s almost that time of year…

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n doi.org/10.1080/0032... @sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks

The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...

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For those of you interested in accessing U.S. Census Bureau data from data.census.gov during the government shutdown, the Census APIs are still working. Here is an example of how to access the Census API using both #Rstats and #Python coreysparks.quarto.pub/accessing-th...

ok, dumb #rstats question. I'm using #quarto and i want to print some inline R code in my HTML report, but I DON'T want it to actually run the code I want it to be like this in the report: `r mean(1:10)`

Question for the group. If you are in a job and there is basically no way of moving upwards in your organization, what would you do? #jobs #work

New bonus lesson out now! 🎉 "A Quick Introduction to R" is for all course members that are new to #rstats or need a refresher 🧑‍💻 ➕ 7 exercises and lots of in-browser code examples Part of our interactive workshop #ggplot2 [un]charted 💙 Get access 👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com #dataviz #datascience

The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! bookdown.org/content/3686/ 1/3 #rstats

Taking your analyses to the necks level tomorrow…

Hey #rstats and #quarto folks, I'm building a quarto dashboard and using a gt table to show a reactive dataframe. The problem is that when I select the filter, the table keeps getting large and larger, has anyone else seen this? TIA

If fellow BlueSkyers were like me and used to love TweetDeck back in the day, I'd really recommend @deck.blue to bring back that column view and general vibe.

Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️☀️☀️#summer 2025☀️☀️☀️☀️ yet? Look no more! @mpidr.bsky.social has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 demogr.mpg.de/go/Incubator...

My first try at a Demography "Starter Pack". There's a limit of 50 contacts, so this is definitely partial. go.bsky.app/FqXNjEh

Just deactivated my Twitter account, it was a really productive and fun place a few years ago, now it's a dumpster fire

During trump 1.0, we had to pull down all of the climate change pages off the EPA website. Start archiving shit now, document, backup, photograph, whatever you need to do.

My fav starter packs so far, a thread: stats: go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS stats: go.bsky.app/7TBN5rX causal inference: go.bsky.app/FdemGAZ package devs: go.bsky.app/N1569Qh data peeps: go.bsky.app/8TdEfdK medical stats: go.bsky.app/ArqEz36 bioinformatics: go.bsky.app/Ha64Gmv r-ladies: go.bsky.app/Vgxwa2F