News

  • 13 February 2024: Paper in Demographic Research led by Lindsay Katz on using Facebook data to measure short-term mobility
  • 15 December 2023: Paper in Demographic Research on estimating Rogers-Castro migration schedules in a Bayesian Framework, to accompany our R package, rcbayes.
  • 6 October 2023: New preprint on jointly estimating subnational mortality for multiple populations, led by Ameer Dharamshi.
  • 7 September 2023: Presented on model selection issues in Bayesian Demography at BSPS in the session on Data science: estimation and forecasting.
  • 21 August 2023: Presented on a Bayesian misclassification framework to adjust abortion incidence estimates at ASA. A preprint is here.
  • 25 July 2023: On 28-30 September I’ll be teaching a short course on ‘Extracting and Analyzing Web and Social Media Data: A Short Course’, run through Code Horizons.
  • May 2023: Excited to serve as a member of the Technical Advisory Group to the UN Interagency Group on Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
  • 27 February 2023: Awarded a Catalyst Grant from the Data Science Institute to use web data to better understand inequalities in childcare in Canada (with Ito Peng).