Talks Worth Watching
8 itemsPat Bajari: Building applied analytics at Amazon
Keystone interview. How Amazon's Chief Scientist built applied research from …
Jonathan Hall: Reflections of an Economist Who Manages People (Stanford 2024)
Uber's Chief Economist on transitioning from research to leadership. Bay Area …
Jonathan.Interviews: Data Science Careers & Causal Inference
Senior data scientist with causal inference expertise. Practical tutorials on …
Susan Athey: applied researchers Wanted
AEA Research Highlights. Why companies like Airbnb need researchers to solve …
Hal Varian: Googlenomics Long-read Q&A (AEI)
In-depth AEI interview covering the Varian Rule for tech adoption, second-price …
Sean Taylor: When Do We Need Causal Inference?
Former Lyft/Facebook DS lead. This talk saves you from over-engineering. Know …
Daron Acemoglu on AI (Capitalism and Freedom)
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu discusses AI's impact on labor markets, inequality, …
John List: Market Design in Ride-Sharing
How ride-sharing platforms design markets for drivers and riders. Insights from …
Blogs & Tutorials
8 itemsDouble/Debiased Machine Learning Guide
From the original DML authors. Explains Neyman orthogonality, cross-fitting, DML …
Scott Cunningham: Causal Inference Substack
Substack and podcast 'The Mixtape with Scott' featuring interviews with leading …
Awesome Causal Inference (Matteo Courthoud)
Comprehensive GitHub repository curating causal inference resources. Papers, …
Pedro Sant'Anna's DiD Resources
14 lecture slide decks from the co-creator of Callaway-Sant'Anna. Covers …
Mark White's Practical Causal Forest Tutorial
Explains why optimize directly on causal effects, not outcomes. Complete …
Mixtape Sessions GitHub Repository
Free workshop materials from sessions taught at Facebook, eBay, LSE, and Oxford. …
Causal Inference: The Mixtape
Scott Cunningham's academic-quality but accessible methodology covering causal …
Google's CausalImpact Blog Post
Production-grade tool from Google's advertising team. Bayesian structural …
New This Month
8 itemsAlibaba Fashion Combo
Fashion item combinations from Alibaba for outfit recommendation
Open E-Commerce 1.0 (MIT)
1.8M Amazon purchases with demographics (age, gender, location). Real household …
Matteo Courthoud's DiD Tutorial
Industry perspective with full Python code. Covers classic DiD with potential …
AEA: Machine Learning and Econometrics (Athey/Imbens)
9 hours from two of the most influential computational economists. ML vs. causal …
Asjad Naqvi's DiD Repository
The definitive meta-resource for modern DiD. Covers TWFE failures, Goodman-Bacon …
Bambi
High-level interface for building Bayesian GLMMs, built on top of PyMC. Uses …
EconML
Microsoft toolkit for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects using DML, …
bunching
Implements Kleven-Waseem style bunching estimation for kink and notch designs. …
Top Packages
8 itemsrespy
Simulation and estimation of finite-horizon dynamic discrete choice (DDC) models …
Greeners
Comprehensive Rust econometrics library with OLS, IV, panel data estimators, …
did
Implements group-time average treatment effects (ATT(g,t)) for staggered DiD …
scpi
Provides rigorous prediction intervals for synthetic control methods following …
CausalImpact
Google's Bayesian structural time-series package for measuring intervention …
TS-Flint
Two Sigma's time-series library for Spark with optimized temporal joins, as-of …
ruspy
Python package for simulation and estimation of Rust (1987) bus engine …
mlsynth
Implements advanced synthetic control methods: forward DiD, cluster SC, factor …
Top Datasets
8 itemsSpotify Million Playlist
1M playlists with 2M unique tracks from 300K artists. RecSys 2018 Challenge for …
Diginetica Fashion
Clickstream and purchase data for fashion e-commerce
Retail Rocket Recommender System Dataset
4.5 months of behavior data from a real e-commerce site: 2.7M sessions, item …
CMS Hospital Price Transparency
Hospital pricing data mandated since 2021. Negotiated rates, chargemaster prices …
ASOS Experiments
99 real e-commerce experiments with daily checkpoints from ASOS
NYC EMS Incident Dispatch Data
4.83M+ ambulance responses with second-level timestamps for dispatch, en route, …
Dressipi Fashion (RecSys 2022)
Session interactions and item features from styling service
Chicago TNC Trips
100M+ rideshare trips with fares (unlike NYC which lacks fare data). Trip-level …