Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social) @tcarpenter216 Twitter profile

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

1 year

What most activates a sense of purpose within you in your career, work, etc.? For me, it's ... * working with others * who have something to teach me * while I use people/data/survey-science skills * to help others How about you?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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2 months

The lack of fundamental probability knowledge in society is painful. If my doctor said this, I’d be elated.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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@TableSlamStan And it should. But it’s reasonable to inquire into the possibility that the chance of success here is better. And certainly you should not assume that a failure is “overdue”

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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@mysty_man Bingo

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

4 years

Whatever your stance on journals, it’s *BIZARRE* that Elsevier (with a profit margin rivaling Apple’s) won’t pay for your peer review labor, gets content for free, and sells it back to your school for profit. Serious question—how can we do this differently? Alternatives?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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4 years

I’m 6 years post PhD, a tenured associate prof, and happy. I still have recurring dreams that I did not finish a class in high school, and so all of my education is a fraud, and I will lose my job if anyone finds out. Does anyone else have this? Is this just imposter syndrome?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

6 years

Academic tweeps: do you find that you essentially have to write and rewrite and rewrite (and rewrite) in order to get a really clear, strong manuscript? Or is it just me.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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6 years

Was asked by a student this week: “but don’t you always *want* to reject the null hypothesis?” ... I responded: “not if it’s true!” and it was a revelation for the class. They need someone to tell them the goal is *truth,* not p < .05

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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@HeadSnapss Unclear what’s untrustworthy in this example, but the meme seems to imply that the doctor is “overdue” for a bad outcome (which is false; that’s not how probability works)

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 years

This is a great book! Do you analyze survey data? Do you lack the stats training to address sampling biases or to use stratified designs? Were you trained in social science rather than stats? Do you want to up your quant game? Get this book. You won’t regret it! #scilearn

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

5 years

Today, I got tenure. #happy

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 months

@WilliamBLong21 We call that the gamblers fallacy. There is no “due” across independent events

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

1 year

Friend reminder that it’s all regression

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

1 year

In Rstudio, writing R code, and started typing "import tidyverse as ..." and then stopped and cried

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

1 year

@rustykitty_ Start with the chair or dean > you did not use AI > there is no proof that you did > the tool in question is questionable (can you see the evidence it supposedly has?) and besides the score was low! > the faculty admits they don’t care ~ a former prof + AI / ML practitioner

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

10 months

This book is great and has more value than you’d think. But the best value is chapter 8 on “career advice” … this has to be the best DS career chapter I’ve seen. Red flags in a job? Why data teams succeed if fail? Why you love (or hate) your data job and what to do? It’s here

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

1 year

Not working 17-hour days is quiet quitting?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 years

Academics, may I introduce you to my friend, professional project management? I feel like this relationship should have begun sooner.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

4 years

Does anyone go back and forth between thinking (a) their paper is amazing and a great contribution and (b) their paper is obvious and makes not contribution? How do you keep the faith alive?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

6 years

Please RT! Psych Tweeps: Started a google doc to curate an annotated list of R books, tutorials, and resources for folks wishing to "make the jump." Think: colleagues, grad students, and undergrads. Fully editable! Let's keep this going? Edit/share.

R Resources

Learning with R! This list was designed for academic researchers (focus here = psychology) wishing to transition to R, wishing to learn R, and wishing to do data analyses in R. Please list any...

docs.google.com

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

5 years

Does anyone else do this? Me: ooh, look at this great resource I see on twitter. Let me email it to myself for later. Also me: why did I send myself so many emails!?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

6 months

Accurate

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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9 months

Twitter has ruined me

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 months

@BillySakmann There’s a risk of death? No thanks <— me

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

7 years

@ColIegeStudent Serious take: Major is different from career path. The major is about building a foundation. There are MANY more career paths than majors. Most people build satisfying careers and most use skills from their major, but not directly

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

3 years

Friends--I am thrilled to announce a major transition: I'm walking away from tenure and pursuing an impactful career around analytics/data science. It's missional work to me and I am thrilled for the next chapter. I start in January at Microsoft! Details here :)

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

1 year

Let’s talk about reproducible analyses! Before I left academia, I started making reproducible R notebooks for every study. Walks user through every step, explains logic & matches paper. Folks—it’s as much work as the actual paper and the only way i see to make this work 1/n

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1 year

A plea from Steve Lindsay to psychology professional societies that publish journals: Assess computational reproducibility

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

5 years

STOP talking trash about different statistical techniques Multilevel models are VERSATILE t-tests are ICONIC Regression is MAGNIFICENT Factor analysis is USEFUL ANOVA Mixture models are CUTTING EDGE

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 years

Psych folks who know #rstats but are intimidated by SQL databases (i.e., industry work)--you already know the core concepts. Let me help you translate. 🧵 1. The "database" is analogue to your R environment. It can store many tables. (1/n)

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 years

After a year at Microsoft (and out of academia), I’m amazed at how much more organized my personal life is. Planning. Notes. Not just doing the thing that’s on fire. Such a good life change!

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

3 years

Psych folk--consider this for your department. We added a "data analytics" track in our psych major. Students can learn advanced R, databases/SQL, and beginning programming. Add to stats/methods and all the people insights and you are positioned for industry with your BA

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

4 years

Just drafted 25-page guide to scientific writing for undergraduates in psychology (focused on students in a Research Methods). Broke good science writing into four principles and three skills. Looking for feedback! Also might there be value in submitting?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

5 years

Analyzing longitudinal data? This collection of tutorials is *AMAZING* ... beautiful markdown tutorials for every kind of analysis with code, data, everything

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 months

@g_mppa @TableSlamStan Also “regression to the prior.” Yes, it’s possible that this doctor’s average is worse than 100%. But that does not imply that the recent successes make the one “due” for a failure as the meme suggests (by my reading)

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

5 years

Most psych grads won't go into academia or even "psychology." They get jobs. To use stats skills, most workplaces emphasize excel, not R (against my own wishes, but it's reality). We need some place in the psych major where they can get minimally competent in excel

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

6 years

Do you simulate data in R? What tools do you use? What can you share? I'm building a resource list (and will share here when done)! Share code snippets, blog posts, R packages, etc. For example, just found 'truncnorm' that generates normal data within a given range. What else?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

7 years

New meta analysis shows almost a zero correlation between student course evaluations and learning

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

1 year

The average is the maximum. Got it. …Wait. ….

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 years

Want to up your regression game? Nominal outcomes? Ordered outcomes? Switch between R and python? I am finding this book by @dr_keithmcnulty to be quite delightful (free online!)! Great, fast read! Has a nice section on power analysis #scilearn

Welcome | Handbook of Regression Modeling in People Analytics: With Examples in R, Python and Julia

A technical manual of inferential statistics and regression modeling in the people and social sciences

peopleanalytics-regression-book.org

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

4 years

Linguistic analysis of language from police body cameras during traffic stops. Analysis reveals a considerable difference between how white and nonwhite individuals are treated. White folk cautioned about safety; black folk told to keep hands on wheel. h/t @MikeShor for posting

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 years

Do you have a background in social science and want to use stats to solve real world problems? Did your grad training stop at multiple regression variants? Do you find advanced stats books inaccessible? This book was written for you. Read it! #scilearn

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

3 years

Ex-academic in tech, end of week 1. I never realized how much I felt “perpetually behind” in academia and how much of an emotional toll that took. We habituate to it but it still takes a toll.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

6 years

I’m struggling to find words, so I will just share some personal news: I have been promoted to Associate Professor, starting in the fall! I can’t help but think that psych twitter has played a major community support role. Thank you!

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

2 years

In case you wondered why the “database icon” looks like a cylinder

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2 years

@tcarpenter216 @adamjnafa The original hard drives, you used to be able to add more platters to expand storage. Thus bad boy probably weighed 200lbs and stored 10MB

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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3 years

Ex-academic in tech, month 4. The best thing I got from my PhD was the confidence that I could learn anything to do a project. Learning happens at (or over) the edge of comfort zones. So new projects will be uncomfortable but growth WILL come. Embrace it. You’re a learn-it-all.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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16 days

Data science truly is an amazing job for a methods/stats person. Training cool models + running cool analyses—much cooler methods than i used in academia. Building with the coolest toys. Solving big problems. Really impactful work. Living the dream!

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

6 years

If you analyze data and care about stats, read this book. It’s accessible and will convince you that much of what you know is wrong. Many statistical techniques are much more fragile (non-robust) than you were taught.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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2 years

🧵Want a great industry job doing behavioral science, surveys, data analysis, data science, or other "psych research" skills? You might be surprised that technical skills are NOT the thing you should focus on (1/n)

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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6 years

Note to self: when randomizing items in Qualtrics, be sure to randomize the order of the *items* and not the order of the *likert scale points* ... dodged a disaster there!

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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7 years

It's official. My students vastly prefer R over SPSS in an intro stats course for psychology majors #rstats #spss #psychology #teaching

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

6 years

For the first time, I had a grant accepted today. Many failures to get here, but thanks to psych twitter for your encouragement and the conversations that inspired the project.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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7 years

Since adopting #OpenScience practices, I’ve fallen in love with research all over again. It feels more real—a quest to find truth, not just a publication game. Just another perk. Thanks open science folk!

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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2 years

Love this intuitive explanation for R^2 from @dr_keithmcnulty . How large are your residuals using the mean as a predictor? How large are they under your regression? The R^2 reflects the proportion of the (squared, summed) residuals that you have reduced.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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2 years

Once again I find myself searching for "hide legend ggplot"

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

4 years

Curious for thoughts. Why is it *SO HARD* for people to admit they're wrong? What if we created a culture that normalized being wrong--and then improving? Seems integral to everything: science, relationships, personal growth. Have to know I'm wrong today to be more right tomorrow

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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3 years

It took me several years to realize this, but academic twitter is largely the same debates repeated on a roughly annual rotation

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

3 years

Leaving academia? It can be a big leap. Remember this, PhDs -- your whole game is that you learn whatever you need in order to get the job done. Don't know databases? You will learn. Don't know what a blob storage service is? You can figure it out. You're a "learn-it-all"

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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8 months

It’s also not a knife or a spoon or a comb. Or many other things it doesn’t try to be. #Rstats is excellent at functional programming with data. It’s not useful for much else. And that’s ok. Anyone complaining that it’s not “more than that” doesn’t understand R

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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2 years

In the past 24 hours, I have been called unskilled, less educated than a HS student, and held up as the example of all that is wrong with the PhD system. I’ve taken down my post and will not be tweeting about data science any time soon. It’s not worth it.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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8 months

Hot take: the postdoc (and with it, academic funding) system is fundamentally broken

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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23 days

dplyr's pivot_wider() and pivot_longer() are some of the best APIs I've seen for quick data reshaping

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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1 year

Kids, don’t plagiarize, cheat, or fake your work. We—your professors—know that the only thing that can come of it is a speaking circuit with big fees, a prestigious position at Duke, and a tv show with a character based on you. Not worth it.

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I'm totally flabbergasted: At what point will there be some consequences for this type of behavior from Duke University, academic journals, or other institutions that ostensibly care about academic integrity? What is the appropriate outcome in a situation like this?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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2 years

More on this book (basics of modern stats, data science, ML). I’ve rarely seen a book THIS GOOD at teaching. Every sentence is worded to avoid confusion, lay foundation, or build deep understanding. Makes me miss teaching stats. Worth your time #scilearn

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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3 years

Data visualization in psychology is .... lacking. One of the best books on #dataviz is this one by @ClausWilke -- and turns out it's free online! Read it, preach it, teach it. Reviewer 2 often told me to remove figures... still worth a shot!

Fundamentals of Data Visualization

A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.

clauswilke.com

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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1 year

Ok but to be fair sometimes that works

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1 year

This might just work

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@anecdatally

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5 years

My wife and i had a whole conversation about which direction they rotate before we realized they ARE NOT MOVING AT ALL

じゃがりきん

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ついに立体的に動いて見える錯視が完成しました。キューブが回転して見えますね？止まっています

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5 years

Research methods instructors: I give you a gift for the first day of class

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5 years

I...I have no words Non-randomized, n=63, Control: staring at desk Active intervention: caring for plant Outcome: tiny difference in proxy of mental health Headlines:

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In my analytics consulting career, I discovered that this is how many organizations do inference today. Fun fact—a client once thought I was LESS skilled than another analyst bidding because I claimed needed a larger sample size to draw a conclusion

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Reading a paper from 1905 which reports results as means & then says "Just take a look, the means are different". No analysis? And this is how I learned the t-test wasn't invented until 1908. People were just like, looking at numbers & going "yeah, looks different" before then.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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Heck of a time to leave academia for data science 👀

Senior PowerPoint Engineer

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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6 years

What if universities self published academic journals for half the price and the money went into reducing tuition?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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I’ve spent my life assuming there are infinite moments. My PhD taught me that life comes “later” (bye 20s). Tenure took my early 30s. The things that mattered were when I showed up in love and care for others. Advocacy. Marriage. Fostering. Parenting Worth thinking about

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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I realized a couple years ago I stopped caring whether my hypotheses were supported...and started treating contrary evidence as a sign that we need to revise theory (vs some failure of mine). It improved my science and sense of well-being. Feeling grateful today for #openscience

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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8 months

It took a few *years* for this to get written and accepted … but it’s a great paper and you should read and recommend it!

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“Underpowered to detect what?” should be the first question to anyone who says a “study” is underpowered

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Ex-academic in tech, Day 2: I love my job, love my team, and love my role. I did good work today. Then, at 5 pm, I put it away. It's weird putting work away and not feeling like it's a compromise somehow. Looking forward to this.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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5 years

Can someone please explain to me why it is *so hard* to turn what seems like a clear paper idea into a clear paper?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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Ex-academic in tech, day 8: all the stuff I used to do that felt like “not real work” (but I still had to do) was real work. If there aren’t enough hours in the week to do that stuff *and* teach *and* write then the problem is the work plan, not the execution

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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Many PhDs lack some fundamental math training that help them feel confident in the data science space. This is a fantastic teaching book! In addition, it does it all in python (a great language to learn in addition to #rstats ) #scilearn

Essential Math for Data Science: Take Control of Your Data with Fundamental Linear Algebra,...

Essential Math for Data Science: Take Control of Your Data with Fundamental Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics

www.amazon.com

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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Causal inference comes down to 5 rules familiar to “mediation” crowd: 1. Control for confounders 2. Don’t control for colliders 3. Controlling for mediators makes estimate from X a direct (vs total) effect 4. Magically know the DAG to decide ^^^ 5. random assign when possible

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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2 months

Is there an “extraordinary least squares”?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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1 year

You get to recommend ONE book to social science phds who want to build probability and stats skills. What is it?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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5 years

I have good news: my committee has voted to recommend me for tenure!

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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1 year

Stats, psych, data twitter -- need your help! Industry is full of smart and ambitious people doing analytics who haven't had stats/methods training. Have regular need to direct people to the equivalent of intro stats, intro research methods, advanced iterations, etc. Where send?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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@ling_sprenger Let’s normalize this. I do this occasionally. Negative feedback is commonly shared and positive feedback rarely is. Let’s share the good!

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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5 years

Decided that p-values make much more sense to students when phrased as "% of the time." E.g., "If H0 were true, results this strong would still occur 34% of the time" ... Wondering how much confusion we'd avoid if we taught it that way more consistently

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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Thread. Totally reworked my advanced stats course this year. Rebuilt from bottom up. Now 100% analyzing open datasets. Big insights (1/n)

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Has anyone seen something like a causal inference boot camp or online course? Eg an online course covering modern techniques for those who didn’t get much in grad school beyond regression and RCTs? I’m self-taught and want to improve my skills this year

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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Moved advanced stats class to be R focused (instead of SPSS). Realizing I have to go slower but that’s because students are learning deeper. It was too easy in SPSS to give a 30,000 foot view with no depth. Teaching with R forces understanding.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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Academics: not sure who needs to hear this, but responding to student emails, scheduling, and all the other things that take up your day are "work" and if you spent a day doing them, you actually did "get work done."

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Understanding p-values

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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Most 'data analysis' resources are technical =(e.g., coding in R or python, data engineering, etc). Wanting to help others up level into the THINKING process that analysts/scientists do naturally (problem --> helpful question --> test --> insight). What can I recommend to ppl?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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Am I the only one who finds this data visualization incredibly hard to read?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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As a data scientist who has worked exclusively in #rstats for many years, I’m really excited by python. This book has a fantastic boot camp for python and DS work in general. Snarky. Full of gems. Great teaching tool. Highly recommend. #scilearn

Data Science from Scratch, 2nd Edition

To really learn data science, you should not only master the tools—data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits—but also understand the ideas and principles underlying them. Updated for...

www.oreilly.com

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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Thesis: the magic of Twitter was never the platform. It was that it made it effortless to find a community of people you didn’t already know. I have yet to find that on any other platform.

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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I just submitted my file for promotion to associate professor. Hands still trembling! Wish me luck!

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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Let’s STOP using STATISTICS and start using STATISTICS

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As traditional political polling methods appear to fall short again, some tech firms say that AI holds promise via @WSJ

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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One of the kindest things my advisor told me in grad school was that she would support my career goals, even if I wanted to decorate cakes. She’d teach me how to design experiments to make the perfect cake. Heard that in 2012 and I still find it inspiring

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The academic path..... Undergrad --> PhD --> Postdoc --> PI --> bakery shop owner

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

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We need to move to a publishing/hiring/training model that emphasizes quality over quantity, teams over PIs, accuracy over prestige, integrity over speed, and importance over flash. For science to reach its potential, these should be nonnegotiable. 6/n

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

4 years

Power for interactions is scary. Correlation in group 1 = .50, correlation in group 2 is ~ .40-.45. How many people do you need *per condition* to determine whether condition moderates this correlation?

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Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social)

@tcarpenter216

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Bandwidth is a budget. You can't solve a budget by saying you will magically have more money. You can't solve a bandwidth problem by simply asking people to "do more." If needs go up, bandwidth must be found by reducing commitments elsewhere. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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