mastodon 4.7.3I research online communities and create computational social science tools.
PhD student with @communitydata@social.coop
Mastodon has grown a lot over the last two months. Where are people setting up new accounts?
As might be expected, growth correlates with instance size (Matthew effect), but there's another part of the story: many people joined new instances that didn't even exist previously!
Does anyone have strong feelings about citation key formatting?
Any reason not to just use the default of `auth.lower + shorttitle(3,3) + year`?
Cool tutorial for building an Economist-style plot in ggplot2
https://r-graph-gallery.com/web-lineplots-and-area-chart-the-economist.html
@andresmh@hci.social Are you using the Better BibTex plugin?
Updates to my #NCAAWBB model as we reach the Sweet Sixteen. Pulling for the 0.82% outcome!
Ran a little Monte Carlo simulation for the 2025 NCAA women's basketball tournament.
I'm on UConn this year.
Not sure I agree with all the framing here.
Prediction markets work when they effectively aggregate information. And much of that information will come from models, polling, etc. They are often complimentary!