welliman

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by welliman 6y ago
Not really. The research seems to be relatively novel, not a watered down version of a different study being repeated by children as your comment would suggest. My point was that the research just wasn't overly prestigious.
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by welliman 6y ago
That study looks like it was done by an undergrad and isn't peer reviewed. It is interesting, but probably should be taken with a grain of salt.
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by welliman 7y ago
IPUMS, Univserity of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | Backend Web Developer | Full-time | Onsite | https://ipums.org/ IPUMS ( https://www.ipums.org/ ) is a leader in the field of quantitative social science rese
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by welliman 7y ago
IPUMS, Univserity of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | Backend Web Developer | Full-time | Onsite | https://ipums.org/ IPUMS ( https://www.ipums.org/ ) is a leader in the field of quantitative social science rese
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by welliman 7y ago
The decisions you are trying to make seem to be based more off of anxiety and/or fear rather than a passion for what you want to be doing with your life. Try to find out what you would enjoy doing with your current skillset and spend s
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by welliman 7y ago
I’m not buying this. I ride the light rail in Minneapolis a fair amount and others on it don’t look or act rich at all. In fact the express bus I frequently take seems to be full of more affluent people than the light rail.
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by welliman 8y ago
Whimsical inventiveness is the one thing that keeps me enjoying the art of programming. There's a tension in programming between being verbosity and ingenuity. More flexible languages and programmers general favor ingenuity, while rigi
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by welliman 8y ago
It's not really my area of expertise, but from what I understand it will severely limit what policy and demographic research can be done with the data. There's a working paper on the page you linked to which has more information:
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by welliman 8y ago
Blatant plug: for large scale analysis on census and survey data I'd recommend checking out nhgis.org. It lets you download the large pieces of demographic data that you may be interested in. Data harmonized across time is also availab
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by welliman 8y ago
IPUMS | ipums.org | Data Engineer | Minneapolis, MN | Onsite | Full-Time IPUMS is a leader in the field of quantitative social science research and the largest disseminator of census and demographic data to the world’s academic research com
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by welliman 8y ago
I really like Sandi Metz as a speaker, and am pretty sure she has thought about these problems much deeper than I have. However, I often find myself wondering if most of the problems she is trying to solve would go away if programmers spent
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Why we always do a full day onsite interview(tech.popdata.org)
2 points by welliman 11y ago|0 comments