Data Points showcases the work of Penn’s data science community through concise, engaging articles. Each post takes a complex idea and transforms it into accessible insights in creative and compelling ways—whether through a high-level walkthrough of a key figure, or an interactive, explorable explanation.
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A walkthrough of the Potential Outcomes Framework from first principles, exploring why causal claims are harder than they look and how social scientists build credible arguments
Five Penn physicists — from HEP theorists to experimentalists to astrophysicists — share their real AI workflows in a May 2026 training session, covering symbolic computation, agentic coding, and the honest limits of trust
Postdoctoral researchers across two sessions compared model selection strategies, built MCP servers live, and debated what agentic AI means for peer review integrity and student learning
A narrative essay on how to keep sequence and evidence visible under polarization: turning fast-moving crises into structured, revisitable context
From Data to Documentation: Assisting Codebook Completion with LLMs
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