Known for CSSR algorithm | Name Cosma Shalizi | |
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Institutions Carnegie Mellon UniversitySanta Fe InstituteUniversity of Michigan Alma mater University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Education University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California, Berkeley | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
Cosma shalizi why economics needs data mining
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi (born February 28, 1974) is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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- Cosma shalizi why economics needs data mining
- Are Observational Studies of Social Contagion Doomed
- Background
- References
Shalizi is co-author of the CSSR algorithm, which exploits entropy properties to efficiently extract Markov models from time-series data without assuming a parametric form for the model.
Shalizi writes a popular science blog "Three-Toed Sloth".
Are Observational Studies of Social Contagion Doomed?
Background
Born in Boston, Shalizi lived there for the first two years of his life before moving to Bethesda, Maryland where he grew up. He is of Tamil, Afghan and Italian heritage.
In 1990 he was accepted as a Chancellor's Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a bachelor's degree in Physics. Subsequently, he attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received a doctorate in physics in May 2001. From 1998 to 2002, he worked at the Santa Fe Institute, in the Evolving Cellular Automata Project and the Computation, Dynamics and Inference group. Afterwards, from 2002 to 2005, he worked at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
In August 2006, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.