2014 Code Plenary Session A

A Brief History of Virtual Labs: From Small Worlds to Crisis Mapping. Duncan Watts (Microsoft) Crowdphysics: Studies of ... The Necessity for Causation is Overstated. Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University) Correlation Rather than Causation? Using Short Term Experiments in a Long Term World. Susan Athey (Stanford University) Field Experiments on Online Advertising. Efficient Exponential Digital Experimentation. John Langford (Microsoft) Do Crowds have the Wisdom to Self Organize? Here is a video compilation of our inaugural Panelists: Esther Dyson (EDventure), Michelle N. Meyer (Mt. Sinai), Leslie Meltzer (University of Maryland), Duncan Watts ...

When Randomized Experiments are Plentiful. Dean Eckles (MIT) Insights from Behavioral Economics for Consumer Finance ... Creating Effective Creatives - Hardships & Opportunities. Claudia Perlich (Dstillery) The Effects of Expanding Digital Access in ... Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system ... Watch Azure Antoinette performing a poem as part of the Estimation and Evaluation of Optimal Policies. Susan Athey (Stanford University) Escaping from Government and Corporate ... Is creativity a priority in today's world? Where is this demand coming from and whose responsibility is it to address?

Machine Learning to Test Theories. Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University). Inference in Experiments on Networks.