Twitter engineers explain how Nobel Prize-winning economics influence their thinking.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/3jfdA23

A thread of lightly interesting stuff (because understanding the impacts of likes and retweets isn't nothing).

You may have heard about this year's Economics Nobel Prize winners - David Card, Josh Angrist (@metrics52) & Guido Imbens.

Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems @Twitter, and we're excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.

— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) October 18, 2021

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 & Rubin (2015). https://t.co/BicSMhnsoghttps://t.co/Sjphq081Xq

— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) October 18, 2021

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