stefano maria iacus

@iacus

Stat&Prob&Fishing&Japan. Geek, R Core Team (1999-2014), Prof @LaStatale Unimi, @IQSS & @KempnerInst affiliate, back to @EU_Commission. Father of 3.

Seville, Spain Joined May 2009

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stefano maria iacus @iacus Sep 22

New paper: the rural-urban gap in job satisfaction is procyclical, widest when labor markets are tight. Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s11205…

link.springer.com Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Social Media: Rural–Urban Patterns in the U.S. Social Indicators Research - We analyze a social-media-based indicator of expressed job-satisfaction for U.S. counties (2013–2023), derived from 2.6 billion geolocated tweets and validated...

stefano maria iacus @iacus Sep 8

Are there two Americas of well-being?
The conversation about the US has centered on a rural-urban divide: in voting patterns, in values, in opportunity. But what happens when we look at subjective well-being, that is, how good people say their life is? siacus.substack.com/p/are-there-tw…

stefano maria iacus @iacus Aug 31

siacus.substack.com/p/mapping-the-…

stefano maria iacus @iacus Aug 28

What can 2.6B tweets tell us about human flourishing in the US?
Our new paper, just published in Nature’s Scientific Data, uses geolocated tweets and fine-tuned language models to build 48 indicators of flourishing across US counties and states.
doi.org/10.1038/s41597…

www.nature.com The Human Flourishing Geographic Index: A County-Level Dataset for the United States, 2013–2023 Scientific Data - The Human Flourishing Geographic Index: A County-Level Dataset for the United States, 2013–2023

stefano maria iacus @iacus Jun 17

This year Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Core Team, for its contribution to R, its community and statistical computing more broadly. I am so happy for this, and humbly proud of having been part of this amazing success story 👇👇👇
rousseeuwprize.org/2026