Ayush Kumar
@ayushkumar.bsky.social
Econ Predoc at NYU, UGA Alumni
Currently working on social capital research. Broadly interested in questions that make you say “how is this economics?”
Currently working on social capital research. Broadly interested in questions that make you say “how is this economics?”
Reposted by Ayush Kumar
An amazing visualization from the NYT of some research from my team:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An amazing visualization from the NYT of some research from my team:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Ayush Kumar
💡New preprint & Python package: We use sparse autoencoders to generate hypotheses from large text datasets.
Our method, HypotheSAEs, produces interpretable text features that predict a target variable, e.g. features in news headlines that predict engagement. 🧵1/
Our method, HypotheSAEs, produces interpretable text features that predict a target variable, e.g. features in news headlines that predict engagement. 🧵1/
March 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
💡New preprint & Python package: We use sparse autoencoders to generate hypotheses from large text datasets.
Our method, HypotheSAEs, produces interpretable text features that predict a target variable, e.g. features in news headlines that predict engagement. 🧵1/
Our method, HypotheSAEs, produces interpretable text features that predict a target variable, e.g. features in news headlines that predict engagement. 🧵1/
Reposted by Ayush Kumar
New data from Facebook reveals interesting patterns of cross-gender social ties around the world, from Michael Bailey, Drew M. Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33480
February 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New data from Facebook reveals interesting patterns of cross-gender social ties around the world, from Michael Bailey, Drew M. Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33480
Reposted by Ayush Kumar
Can men & women be friends?
A phenomenal paper analyses 1.3 trillion Facebook connections!!!
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
A phenomenal paper analyses 1.3 trillion Facebook connections!!!
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
February 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Can men & women be friends?
A phenomenal paper analyses 1.3 trillion Facebook connections!!!
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
A phenomenal paper analyses 1.3 trillion Facebook connections!!!
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
Reposted by Ayush Kumar
Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender?
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
February 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender?
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
Reposted by Ayush Kumar
Some things I've learned in 2024:
1. A jail-based education program in Flint MI which emphasizes rehabilitation and improved jail culture dramatically reduced misconduct and recidivism
(More: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ep5xy...)
1. A jail-based education program in Flint MI which emphasizes rehabilitation and improved jail culture dramatically reduced misconduct and recidivism
(More: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ep5xy...)
December 23, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Some things I've learned in 2024:
1. A jail-based education program in Flint MI which emphasizes rehabilitation and improved jail culture dramatically reduced misconduct and recidivism
(More: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ep5xy...)
1. A jail-based education program in Flint MI which emphasizes rehabilitation and improved jail culture dramatically reduced misconduct and recidivism
(More: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ep5xy...)
My first bluesky post! Made from a Jupyter Notebook
December 11, 2024 at 8:04 PM
My first bluesky post! Made from a Jupyter Notebook
Reposted by Ayush Kumar
We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data.
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
We've made it much easier to reuse our data
An overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:07 AM
We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data.
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...