For several years our blog has had a twitter feed, StatModeling, which tweets each of our posts as it appears.
I thought it would be fun to have a similar feed for our old papers, so we set something up, StatRetro, that starts with our very first post, from 12 Oct 2004, and then goes forward in chronological order, tweeting a new post every 8 hours. So you can relive all our old discussions. It’ll just take a couple decades to go through them all.
Just to get a sense of what’s coming, here are the first few posts we ever did:
A weblog for research in statistical modeling and applications, especially in social sciences
The Electoral College favors voters in small states
Why it’s rational to vote
Bayes and Popper
Overrepresentation of small states/provinces, and the USA Today effect
Sensitivity Analysis of Joanna Shepherd’s DP paper
Unequal representation: comments from David Samuels
Problems with Heterogeneous Choice Models
Morris Fiorina on C-SPAN
A fun demo for statistics class
Red State/Blue State Paradox
Statistical issues in modeling social space
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You can use it as a teaching aid. With 3 new posts a day, there should be something for everyone. Again, the new twitter feed is StatRetro.
P.S. The above photo, courtesy of Zad, represents the overlay of the present and past that you will get from following StatRetro along with the new posts on StatModeling.
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Is the barbara ransom on the first page anyone you know? That seems like a very automated-bot-like thing to say. Also surprising how close that initial description matches the blog now.
Ben:
Yes, Barbara Ransom is a real person!
Oh no, my apologies to Barbara Ransom!
Because the Twitter accounts look so similar (same picture, similar name), I got “tricked” into reading this https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2004/11/04/bayesian_softwa/ and that https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2004/11/08/crossvalidation/ and I’m not even mad…