[UCR_DataScience] REMINDER: Data Science talk by Prof. Diogo Ferrari, tomorrow Friday March 3rd, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[tsotras at cs.ucr.edu]

Reminder about the Data Science seminar tomorrow Friday at noon in the MRB
seminar room. Please register with the link below if you plan to attend.

Best,
V. Tsotras

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> The next Data Science seminar will be on Friday, March 3rd, 12:00-1:00pm
> at the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).
>
> **** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****
>
> To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-talk-tickets-562690060117
>
> The talk will be given by Prof. Diogo Ferrari, Department of Political
> Science, UCR
>
> *Title:*
> Dealing with Latent Pre-exposure to Information Treatments
>
> *Abstract:*
> In Social Sciences, many experiments rely on responses to information
> treatments. Experimental subjects in the treatment group receive some
> information that subjects in the control group don't. Often, the
> proportion of people in the treatment and control groups who were
> pre-exposed to the information is unknown and uncontrolled by the
> researchers. If that pre-exposure is ignored, it can bias the treatment
> effect estimation and lead to incorrect conclusions. I propose two
> estimation procedures for latent pre-exposure in this paper. One combines
> designed-based and model-based methods and relies on ancillary sampling
> and predictive probability of pre-exposure. The other is data-driven and
> relies on exploring latent effect heterogeneity using unsupervised
> learning methods and Dirichlet Process models. I compare both approaches
> using a real application to investigate public attitudes toward government
> tax policies to reduce economic inequality.
>
>
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> Sponsored by the UCR Data Science Center, the purpose of the Data Science
> Seminars is to foster collaborations between "core" Data Science faculty
> (from CSE/ECE/Stat Departments) and faculty/visitors from other sciences
> that face Data Science problems in their research. These informal
> gatherings are open to interested faculty and graduate students. Each
> meeting will start with a talk describing research problems and then a
> discussion will follow for questions, open problems, ideas for possible
> collaborations etc.
>
> A full list of previous seminars appears at:
> http://datascience.ucr.edu/seminars
>
> Forward this email to other colleagues or graduate students in your lab
> that may be interested. Moreover, if you are interested in giving a Data
> Science related talk, please contact me (tsotras at cs.ucr.edu).
>
> Sincerely,
> Vassilis Tsotras
> Professor, CSE Department
> Director, Data Science Major
>
>
>
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