📦 up-2023-electoral-rolls This repository contains data and code related to the electoral rolls for the Uttar Pradesh 2023 elections in India. https://github.com/in-rolls/up-2023-electoral-rolls

From the @FT: “US companies’ earnings are growing at the fastest pace in four years… Median earnings growth year-on-year across the Russell 3000 index — a benchmark for the entire US stock market — hit 11 per cent in … 1 of 2.

If you work at the intersection of CS and economics (or think your work is of interest to those who do!) consider submitting to the ESIF Economics and AI+ML meeting this summer at Cornell: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...

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Latino voters swung hard to Democrats this week, largely erasing GOP inroads in '24 Trump first Republican win presidential vote in Passaic, NJ (70% Latino) — on Tuesday, the city flipped back Nearby Paterson and Prospect Park also saw big swings, giving Sherrill better margins than Biden '20 1/3

📦 namesexdata This repository provides a dataset containing international first names and the corresponding gender associated with each name. https://github.com/appeler/namesexdata

The Benefit of Targeting - By Gaurav in Economics — 15 Dec 2018 The Benefit of Targeting What is the benefit of targeting? Why (and when) do we need experiments to estimate the benefits of targeting? And what is the right baseline to compare against? I start with a business casual expl… Read more →

📦 good_nyt This repository provides data and analysis on the patterns in New York Times production from 1987 to 2007. https://github.com/notnews/good_nyt

NJ's bluest counties saw biggest turnout increases, propelling landslide Three densest counties saw largest jumps from '21: Hudson (Jersey City), Essex (Newark), Union >30% increase in total vote >30-pt Democratic margin High-profile local races helped, e.g., Jersey City mayoral w/ former gov 1/2

📦 sonny_side This repository contains data and analysis exploring the bias towards sons in the naming of businesses in the United States. https://github.com/soodoku/sonny_side

📦 sonny_side This repository contains data and analysis exploring the bias towards sons in the naming of businesses in the United States. https://github.com/soodoku/sonny_side

📦 reg_breach This repository contains code and data related to a project analyzing the correlation between voter registration files and data breaches reported by "Have I Been Pwned?" service. https://github.com/themains/reg_breach

📦 reg_breach This repository contains code and data related to a project analyzing the correlation between voter registration files and data breaches reported by "Have I Been Pwned?" service. https://github.com/themains/reg_breach

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impressive if true Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles. www.nber.org/papers/w34413

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Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Why Obama? - By Gaurav in Social Science — 17 Jan 2008 Why Obama? Chaste and I on why Obama is the better candidate for the Democratic primary. The system of democracy that we have been assigned to only allows us to make comparative judgments between candidates standing for election. W… Read more →

You may have seen recent coverage of lead in supplements in the US. Dietary exposure to heavy metals is potentially a significant public health problem, but we don't understand prevalence well in LMICs In our new open-access paper, we explore contamination in greens grown in Nairobi. Quick 🧵

A fine example of the erratic insanity of Trump's 'emergency' tariffs - and their real costs for American businesses www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Why Obama? - By Gaurav in Social Science — 17 Jan 2008 Why Obama? Chaste and I on why Obama is the better candidate for the Democratic primary. The system of democracy that we have been assigned to only allows us to make comparative judgments between candidates standing for election. W… Read more →

📦 electoral_rolls This repository hosts PDF files of Indian Electoral Rolls. https://github.com/in-rolls/electoral_rolls

📦 electoral_rolls This repository hosts PDF files of Indian Electoral Rolls. https://github.com/in-rolls/electoral_rolls

What Academics Can Learn From Industry - By Gaurav in Science — 08 Aug 2020 What Academics Can Learn From Industry At its best, industry focuses people. It demands that people use everything at their disposal to solve a problem. It puts a premium on being lean, humble, agnostic, creati… Read more →

Sometimes Scientists Spread Misinformation - By Gaurav in Science — 23 Aug 2018 Sometimes Scientists Spread Misinformation To err is human. Good scientists are aware of that, painfully so. The model scientist obsessively checks everything twice over and still keeps eyes peeled for loos… Read more →

📦 private_gov This repository analyzes the prevalence of third-party cookies, trackers, key loggers, and other such elements on government websites. https://github.com/themains/private_gov

📦 private_gov This repository analyzes the prevalence of third-party cookies, trackers, key loggers, and other such elements on government websites. https://github.com/themains/private_gov

Sometimes Scientists Spread Misinformation - By Gaurav in Science — 23 Aug 2018 Sometimes Scientists Spread Misinformation To err is human. Good scientists are aware of that, painfully so. The model scientist obsessively checks everything twice over and still keeps eyes peeled for loos… Read more →

Don't Expose Yourself! Discretionary Exposure to Political Information - By Gaurav in Social Science — 10 Oct 2018 Don't Expose Yourself! Discretionary Exposure to Political Information As the options have grown, so have the fears. Are the politically disinterested taking advantage of… Read more →

📦 mnrega_social This repository contains data related to the social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in India. https://github.com/in-rolls/mnrega_social

📦 mnrega_social This repository contains data related to the social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in India. https://github.com/in-rolls/mnrega_social

Don't Expose Yourself! Discretionary Exposure to Political Information - By Gaurav in Social Science — 10 Oct 2018 Don't Expose Yourself! Discretionary Exposure to Political Information As the options have grown, so have the fears. Are the politically disinterested taking advantage of… Read more →

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The Myth of Knowledge - By Gaurav in Psychology — 14 Apr 2010 The Myth of Knowledge People frequently overestimate how much they know. They also confidently share things they don’t know. But why? One reason is social desirability—the motivation to appear knowledgeable in front of other… Read more →

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Traveling Salesman - By Gaurav in Commentary — 17 Nov 2023 Traveling Salesman White-collar elites venerate travel, especially to exotic and far-away places. There is some justification for the fervor—traveling is pleasant. But veneration creates an umbra that hides some truths: Local t… Read more →

📦 notary This repository hosts the code for a service that generates attestation shields for Python packages hosted on PyPI. https://github.com/gojiplus/notary

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MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/...