Taxonomy is a methodology that classifies entities and defines the hierarchical relationship among them. It’s widely used as a knowledge management system in the industry, and has proven success in improving the accuracy of the machine learning models in search, user-behavior modeling, and classification tasks.

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/interest-taxonomy-a-knowledge-graph-management-system-for-content-understanding-at-pinterest-a6ae75c203fd

The focus is how to identify what success means so that the machine learning algorithm (in this case based on multi-armed contextual bandits) captures that users differ into how they listen to music and playlist consumption varies a lot.

https://mounia-lalmas.blog/2018/10/11/personalizing-the-user-experience-and-playlist-consumption-on-spotify/

List of publications about the intersection UX and ML in applied settings: https://mounia-lalmas.blog/publications/

Four projects in the intellectual history of quantitative social science
1. The rise and fall of game theory.
2. The disaster that is “risk aversion.”
3. From model-based psychophysics to black-box social psychology experiments.
4. The two models of microeconomics.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/01/12/four-projects-in-the-intellectual-history-of-quantitative-social-science/

randomized controlled trial vs. front-door adjustment

In 2014, Adam Glynn and Konstantin Kashin, applied the new method to a data set well scrutinized by social scientists, called the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), conducted from 1987 to 1989.

Notably, the study included both a randomized controlled trial (RCT), where people were randomly assigned to receive services or not, and an observational study, in which people could choose for themselves.

Glynn and Kashin’s results show why the front-door adjustment is such a powerful tool: it allows us to control for confounders that we cannot observe (like Motivation), including those that we can’t even name.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/aglynn/files/glynnkashin-frontdoor.pdf

Когда мало знаний, помогает социология и поведенческая психология

Отличный видеокурс про городские сообщества.

По ссылке самая яркая социальная парадигма: «выбора судьбы» в жизни жителей.


https://youtu.be/msuVeRIrMeg