2 papers
cs.LG2026
Births are difficult to predict even with rich survey and full-population register data
Elizaveta Sivak, Emily M. Cantrell, Thomas Emery +109
Major life events have proven difficult to predict. Does this reflect limits of theory, data, and algorithms, or the large role of chance? We examine one outcome - having a child w…
cs.CL2025
The Book of Life approach: Enabling richness and scale for life course research
Mark D. Verhagen, Benedikt Stroebl, Tiffany Liu +2
For over a century, life course researchers have faced a choice between two dominant methodological approaches: qualitative methods that analyze rich data but are constrained to sm…