resources

Advice from other people:

• You and Your Research; Hamming

• Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing

• Paths to Research: Christohper Thomas Ryan and Runshan Fu
• Aaditya Ramdas – Checklists for Stat-ML PhD students
• Terence Tao’s career advice
• Michael Steele’s advice for statistics phd students
• How to build an economic model in your spare time by Hal Varian
• Networking on the Network by Phil Agre

• Mor Naaman’s PhD syllabus

• sections 3,4: tips for mathematical writing (for homeworks, but useful for communicating more broadly)

• Diana Cai’s list of funding resources for junior women in stats/ml

• Operations Academia (OM job market)
• The academic job search for computer scientists in 10 questions (Nicholas Papernot and Elissa M. Redmiles)

& from me, on job market thoughts:

In the interest of transparency and equity (for example, regarding elite institutions and the social networks of who regards whom in confidence), here are some thoughts summarizing salient advice.

Causal inference:

13 ways of looking at a blackbird

• Causal Inference: What if by Miguel Hernan & Jamie Robins
• Causal Inference by Guido Imbens and Donald Rubin
• Metrics lecture notes by Victor Chernozhukov

Recreation:

I’m on Mastodon

I like to keep up with what others are reading. Here’s what I’m reading for fun. I’m happy to trade recommendations!

currently reading:

• Democracy’s Data (Dan Bouk)
• Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (Sally Haslanger)
• How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide For the Rest of Us (Lucy Bernholz)
• From Farm to Canal Street
• The Performance of Performance Standards

2023

• A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide (on drives between la & sd)
• Recoding America (on drives between la & sd)
• Marc Aidinoff’s dissertation (@ paris)
• From Welfare to Work (on a plane to montreal)
• Fighting for Reliable Evidence (on a plane)
• The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform
• Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning (at LASHP)
• The Rhetoric of Economics (at LASHP)
• Social Epidemiology (Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi, Maria Glymour (eds.)) (at LASHP)

2022

• Blueprint for Counter Education (from heavy manners)
• The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism
• The Fires (Joe Flood) (at LASHP)
• Thinking Like an Economist (Elizabeth Popp Berman)
• How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles (Paul Lichterman)
• Creative Quest (Questlove)
• Dilla Time (Dan Charnas) (@ nyc)
• Critique and Praxis (Bernard Harcourt) (from moe’s books)
• Misdemeanorland (Issa Kohler-Hausmann)
• Administrative Burden :Policymaking by Other Means (By Donald Moynihan and Pamela Herd)

Perpetually ongoing

• Objectivity [Lorraine Daston]