Recent Public Presentations (also see Class Lecture Notes)

• Quantitative Discovery of Qualitative Information: A General Purpose Document Clustering Methodology, Talk at University of Milan, 11/3/2009 (Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• Anchoring Vignettes for Interpersonal and Cross-Cultural Incomparability in Survey Research, Harvard China Social Development Forum, Harvard University, 10/26/09 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Anchoring Vignettes Web site: HTML)
• Public Policy for the Poor? A Randomized Evaluation of the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program, Harvard School of Public Health, 10/1/2009 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Related Research: HTML)
• Quantitative Discovery of Qualitative Information: A General Purpose Document Clustering Methodology, Talk at Transparent Text Symposium, IBM Center for Social Software, 9/22/2009 (Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• Anchoring Vignettes for Interpersonally Incomparable Survey Responses, Graduate Methods and Models Class, Harvard University, 9/18/09 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Anchoring Vignettes Web site: HTML)
• Quantitative Discovery of Qualitative Information: A General Purpose Document Clustering Methodology, IQSS Mindich Text Analysis Conference, Harvard University, 5/30/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• Extracting Systematic Social Science Meaning from Text, IQSS Mindich Text Analysis Conference, Harvard University, 5/30/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• Discovery, Institute for Qualitative and Multimethod Research, Syracuse University, 5/26/09 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Cluster Analysis Paper: HTML | Qualitative Research Paper: HTML)
• Public Policy for the Poor? A Randomized Evaluation of the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program, Harvard School of Public Health, 5/6/2009 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Related Research: HTML)
• Quantitative Discovery of Qualitative Information: A General Purpose Document Clustering Methodology, Northeast Political Methodology Meeting, 4/17/09 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• The Changing Evidence Base of Social Science Research, Miller Converse Lecture Series, University of Michigan, 4/9/09 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• Public Policy for the Poor? A Randomized Evaluation of the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program, USAID, 2/11/2009 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Related Research: HTML)
• Matching for Causal Inference without Balance Checking, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, 1/29/09 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML | Software web site: HTML)
• Public Policy for the Poor? A Randomized Evaluation of the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program, University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, 1/29/2009 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Related Research: HTML)
• Matching for Causal Inference without Balance Checking, University of Rochester, 1/16/09 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML | Software web site: HTML)
• The Future of Death in America, Harvard Center for Population and Development, 12/15/08 (Slides: PDF | Printable slides: PDF | Paper: HTML | Book: PDFs)
• Demographic Forecasting, Graduate Methods and Models Seminar, IQSS, Harvard University, 12/5/08 (Slides: PDF | Printable slides: PDF | Book: PDFs)
• Matching for Causal Inference without Balance Checking, Applied Statistics Workshop, Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science, 10/1/08 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• Introduction to Matching for Causal Inference, Statistics and Psychology Lunch Seminar, Harvard University Psychology Department, 9/29/08 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• The Dataverse Network: An Infrastructure for Data Sharing, 8/14/08 talk at ``UseR! 2008'', Technische Universität, Dortmund, Germany, (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | DVN Paper: HTML | Data Citation Paper: HTML | Zelig Paper: HTML | Dataverse Network Project: Website | Related research: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), Aptima, Inc., Cambridge, MA 7/17/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• Matching for Causal Inference without Balance Checking, Society for Political Methodology, University of Michigan, 7/12/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), IBM, Inc., Cambridge, MA 7/1/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), Google, Inc., Cambridge, MA 6/19/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• The Dataverse Network: An Infrastructure for Data Sharing, Society for Scholarly Publishing, 5/28/08, (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | DVN Paper: HTML | Data Citation Paper: HTML | Dataverse Network Project: Website | Related research: HTML)
• Mexican Seguro Popular Evaluation, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, 3/13/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Related Research: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, 3/7/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• The Dataverse Network: An Infrastructure for Data Sharing, NISS Data Explorations Workshop on Data Sharing at AAAS, 2/23/2008, (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML | Dataverse Network Project: Website | Related research: HTML)
• Interpersonal and Cross-Cultural Incomparability in Survey Research, Harvard School of Public Health Visiting Committee, dinner talk (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Anchoring Vignettes Web site: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), UCSD Richard Atkinson Seminar Series (joint between computer science and the social sciences), 1/4/2008 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing, Institute for Innovative Computing, Harvard University, 8/12/2007 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML | Dataverse Network Project: Website | Related research: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), California Institute of Technology, 10/23/07 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• What to do about Biases in Survey Research, Keynote address, 9th National Congress of the French Association of Political Science, Toulouse, 9/5-7/2007, (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Anchoring Vignettes Web site: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), 9th National Congress of the French Association of Political Science, Toulouse, 9/5-7/2007, (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• A `Politically Robust' Experimental Design for Public Policy Evaluation, with Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program, American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, 9/1/2007 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Design paper: HTML | Matched pair methods paper: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), Society for Political Methodology, Annual Meetings, 7/2007 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), University of Milan (Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici), 6/5/2007 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing, Data-PASS Meeting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 5/21/2007 (Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML | Dataverse Network Project: Website | Related research: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, 4/18/2007 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians), Applied Statistics Workshop, Harvard University, 4/11/2007 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing, National Science Foundation, 3/22/2007 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML | Related research: HTML)
• Extracting Systematic Social Science Meaning from Text (& Cause-Specific Mortality Rates from Symptom Data), Center for Population and Demography, Harvard University, 3/20/2007. (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Text Extraction Paper: HTML | Verbal Autopsy Paper: HTML)
• Anchoring Vignettes for Interpersonally Incomparable Survey Responses, World Bank, 1/23/2007 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Anchoring Vignettes Web site: HTML)
• A `Politically Robust' Experimental Design for Public Policy Evaluation, with Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Program, RWJ Scholars Program, 11/14/2006 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• Evaluation of Seguro Popular: Baseline Analysis, Minstry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico, 6/5/2006 (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Paper: HTML)
• Detecting and Reducing Model Dependence in Causal Inference, Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico, 6/5/2006, (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Related Work: HTML)
• Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico, 6/5/2006, (Slides: PDF | Printable Slides: PDF | Related Work: HTML)
• Finding, Citing, Analyzing, Disseminating, and Preserving Quantitative Data, University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science, 5/19/2006. (Slides: PDF | Printable slides: PDF | Paper: PDF | Related research: Website)
• Demographic Forecasting, Institute for Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, 3/24/2006. (Slides: PDF | Printable slides: PDF | Book: PDFs)
• Detecting and Reducing Model Dependence in Causal Inference, Stony Brook University, 3/9/2006 (Slides: PDF | For Printing: PDF | Related Articles: HTML)
• Demographic Forecasting, United Nations Population Division, 2/2/2006. (Slides: PDF | Book: PDFs)
• Demographic Forecasting, University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center, 1/9/2005. (Slides: PDF | Book: PDFs)
• Evaluation of Seguro Popular: Design Framework, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública [National Institute for Public Health], Cuernavaca, Mexico, 12/1/2005 (Slides: PDF)
• Finding, Citing, Analyzing, Disseminating, and Preserving Numeric Data, Harvard University Librarians, 11/15/2005. (Slides: PDF | Paper: PDF | Related research: Website)
• Demographic Forecasting, Harvard Department of Statistics, 11/26/2005; and University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Department of Statistics, 11/9/2005. (Slides: PDF | Book: PDFs)
• Model Dependence in Counterfactual Inference, Yale Law School, Economics and Organizations Workshop, 11/20/2005. (Slides: PDF | Papers, Software: HTML)
• Demographic Forecasting: : Incorporating Qualitative Insight into Quantitative Modeling, Harvard School of Public Health Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series, 9/29/2005, a nontechnical version of my talk to the Harvard and Penn Statistics Departments, above (Slides: PDF | Full Length Video, or audio if you don't have RealPlayer installed, with slides: RealPlayer File | Book: PDFs)
• Death by Survey: Estimating Adult Mortality without Selection Bias from Sibling Survival Data, presentation at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Political Methodology, 7/21-23/2005 (Slides: PDF | Paper abstract: HTML | Paper: PDF)