Dónal O'Shea
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Kevin Denny @kevindenny.bsky.social · Aug 20
My UCD Economics colleague Cormac Ó Gráda has published a remarkable book on the civilian casualties of the two world wars showing that the death toll was much higher than previously known.

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The Hidden Victims
A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars—and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern war
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Dónal O'Shea @donaloshea.bsky.social · Mar 3
New paper just out from Cormac Ó Gráda and co-authors.

The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study

doi.org/10.1080/0161...

Pays particular attention to challenges algorithms face when they encounter imperfect data.
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study
Automated census linkage algorithms have become popular for generating longitudinal data on social mobility, especially for immigrants and their children. But what if these algorithms are particula...
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