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Ayush Kumar

@ayushkumar.bsky.social

Econ Predoc at NYU, UGA Alumni Currently working on social capital research. Broadly interested in questions that make you say “how is this economics?”

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

An amazing visualization from the NYT of some research from my team: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

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Raj Movva @rajmovva.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

💡New preprint & Python package: We use sparse autoencoders to generate hypotheses from large text datasets. Our method, HypotheSAEs, produces interpretable text features that predict a target variable, e.g. features in news headlines that predict engagement. 🧵1/

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NBER @nber.org · 20/02/2025

New data from Facebook reveals interesting patterns of cross-gender social ties around the world, from Michael Bailey, Drew M. Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel www.nber.org/papers/w33480

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Can men & women be friends? A phenomenal paper analyses 1.3 trillion Facebook connections!!! open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender? Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world! A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:

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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Some things I've learned in 2024: 1. A jail-based education program in Flint MI which emphasizes rehabilitation and improved jail culture dramatically reduced misconduct and recidivism (More: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ep5xy...)

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Ayush Kumar @ayushkumar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My first bluesky post! Made from a Jupyter Notebook

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data. Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...

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We've made it much easier to reuse our data

An overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.

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