#AcademicRunPlaylist - 2/22/24

I was pretty busy today, but I still fit in time for some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an interesting conversation with R. Maria del Rio-Chanona on modeling labor markets and unemployment with a network model at the Santa Fe Institute. Long-time playlist followers will recall that this is an earlier version of some of Maria's later work which I mentioned, definitely a compelling approach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZlIzJ69hV8

Next was an excellent slate of talks on algorithms, textual analysis, and collusion at the New York University School of Law by Felix Chang (NLP analysis of antitrust decisions), Benjamin Leyden (coordinated capacity reductions and public communication in the airline industry), and Alexander MacKay (competition in pricing algorithms). Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKJQCryMcN0

Next was an important panel on queer data studies at the Data & Society Research Institute with Nikita Shepard and Patrick Keilty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASiVsWdV3c

Next was an engaging panel on algorithmic fairness and the courts at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University with Martha Minow and Rosalie Silberman Abella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz9eogMk6lQ

Last was a packed symposium on Peter Grunwald on his group's groundbreaking work on hypothesis testing using the e-value at the Royal Statistical Society. While much of science still clings to p-values (which the statisticians in this event absolutely savage), this method preserves some of the theoretical simplicity of p-values while avoiding many of its huge problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6mYlHK_c84