Researcher @UNGlobalPulse. Interested in mobility, migration / forced displacement, alternative big data sources, and digital trust. Opinions are my own.

Joined May 2011
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Katherine Hoffmann Pham retweeted
ACM COMPASS is back! A virtual conference at the intersection of sustainable development and technology -- 28 June -02 July 2021. Check out the call for papers/posters here: compass.acm.org #SDGs #InternationalDevelopment #HCI4D #ICT4D #COMPASS21
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Katherine Hoffmann Pham retweeted
Announcing the 2021 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. #SICSS is for grad students, post-docs & beginning faculty. Free for participants. @chris_bail and I are happy to tell you about all 20 locations. sicss.io/ [thread]
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Katherine Hoffmann Pham retweeted
Need a distraction from the current state of 🤯🤢🤬? Have you used Facebook to recruit research subjects🤳? Please fill out our short survey below ✍️- and sign up to get the results: forms.gle/r1rc1Cfq1jvzFvS4A cc: @khof312 @ParrishB @chiccorampazzo @mmildenberger

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Login to the #UNDataForum📱💻 to learn about "Innovative use of Social Media for Remote Sensing and SDG Monitoring" organized by @gvrkiran @ingmarweber @ezagheni 🗓️ 19 October Live Q&A w/panelists @s_cresci @khof312 @ridhikash07 @SetioPramono @LisaOSingh youtube.com/watch?v=A178fuhv…
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Sign up for live Q&A: @UNDataForum session "Innovative use of Social Media for Remote Sensing and SDG Monitoring". Organized w/ @gvrkiran @ezagheni, supported by @IUSSP. Panelists @s_cresci @khof312 @ridhikash07 @SetioPramono @LisaOSingh. Oct 19, 11am ET. iussp.org/en/live-qa-un-worl…

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Katherine Hoffmann Pham retweeted
14 May 2020
The KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping brings together a community of researchers and decision-makers to tackle challenges in humanitarian actions. The submission deadline is 5/20, 11:59 pm PDT. bit.ly/2Z1P9vQ @neilsgaikwad @TheRealShankar @rhodiuslin @DaltonLunga
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Some helpful advice on writing about robustness checks. Seems like a formula to make them both more readable and interesting👏
Writing tip about robustness checks. 1/ first express the specific concern the reader may have about your findings, then 2/ present an idea that motivates an approach of addressing it, & only then 3/ describe what your check actually is & what you find.
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When you start your research project with a data set rather than a research question.
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Better #parking is the future of e-#scooters in cities and Parisians❤️🛴! A summary of the work that @BirdRide is doing to understand and encourage good parking in the city. cc @lwsamson @emmaboon bird.co/press/encouraging-be… bird.co/fr/press/concevoir-e…

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I spent months reading about machine learning for causal inference, trying to understand the difference between causal and descriptive or predictive models. TL;DR:
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Two great related reads if interested in this topic: projecteuclid.org/download/p… stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/15…

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Katherine Hoffmann Pham retweeted
Great news from #EPC2020! My work with @khof312, @chiccorampazzo, and @SilvestriFr has been accepted. I will present a poster on how we can leverage @MobikeIT 🚲 data to study mobility in Padova. #datascience
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1 more great summer school with social cohesion focus!
We are looking for participants for our research projects on social cohesion! Apply to participate in our @BIGSSS_Bremen summer school in Groningen! Funded by @VolkswagenSt bigsss-css.jacobs-university… Please retweet!
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This was an amazing experience. Highly recommended!!!
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3 Jan 2020
Land your dream job traffic free. #EnjoyTheRide
Job-market candidates have long run between interviews on foot. The widespread (and plausibly exogenous) introduction of electrified scooters at #ASSA2020 changed that. In this paper, I will...
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Katherine Hoffmann Pham retweeted
Dear #soctwitter #AcademicTwitter, my colleague @rahel_estermann and I are organizing a net- and co-working event for "Women in Computational Social Science", 14th-16th May 2020, taking place in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Katherine Hoffmann Pham retweeted
Economics of Digitization PhD Tutorial applications due November 11. I'm thrilled about this year's lineup: @judy_chevalier, @Susan_Athey, @erikbryn, & Amalia Miller. @nberpubs. Apply here: nber.org/callforpapers/digit…

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Replying to @khof312 @KNBStats
Actually, it was @LeahRosenzweig discovering it from @kopalo's tweet! x.com/kopalo/status/11913879…

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