{"id":28476,"date":"2021-10-20T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/twitter-engineers-explain-how-nobel-winning-economics-influence-their-work#id30807"},"modified":"2021-10-20T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:26:00","slug":"twitter-engineers-explain-how-nobel-prize-winning-economics-influence-their-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/twitter-engineers-explain-how-nobel-prize-winning-economics-influence-their-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter engineers explain how Nobel Prize-winning economics influence their thinking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thread of lightly interesting stuff (because understanding the impacts of likes and retweets isn&#39;t nothing).<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You may have heard about this year&#39;s Economics Nobel Prize winners &#8211; David Card, Josh Angrist (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metrics52?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@metrics52<\/a>) &amp; Guido Imbens.<\/p>\n<p>Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a>, and we&#39;re excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterEng\/status\/1450179475426066433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We use Double Machine Learning to understand the causal impact of engagement actions. Our work leverages research by Chernozhukov et al. (2018), and is influenced by Imbens &amp; Rubin (2015). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BicSMhnsog\">https:\/\/t.co\/BicSMhnsog<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sjphq081Xq\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sjphq081Xq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterEng\/status\/1450179485257519105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/twitter-engineers-explain-how-nobel-winning-economics-influence-their-work\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thread of lightly interesting stuff (because understanding the impacts of likes and retweets isn&#8217;t nothing).<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You may have heard about this year&#8217;s Economics Nobel Prize winners &#8211; David Card, Josh Angrist (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metrics52?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@metrics52<\/a>) &amp; Guido Imbens.<\/p>\n<p>Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a>, and we&#8217;re excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterEng\/status\/1450179475426066433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We use Double Machine Learning to understand the causal impact of engagement actions. Our work leverages research by Chernozhukov et al. (2018), and is influenced by Imbens &amp; Rubin (2015). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BicSMhnsog\">https:\/\/t.co\/BicSMhnsog<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sjphq081Xq\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sjphq081Xq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterEng\/status\/1450179485257519105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/twitter-engineers-explain-how-nobel-winning-economics-influence-their-work\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28477,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28476\/revisions\/28477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}