Welcome!
This is the personal site of Dominic Ricottone.
You can also find me on GitHub, GitLab, Tangled, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
Here are my most recent blog posts.
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Halfway Exploring a City (or two), posted on 2026-07-07
Progress on my series of posts about Midwestern cities has been severely delayed. The reason is that, after reflecting on the visits I had in the latter half of 2025, I don’t believe I saw enough.
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A Series on SEM - Part 5, posted on 2026-03-19
This is the final part of a series on structural equation modeling (SEM). Previously I came to the conclusion that replicating my reference model in lavaan will require declaring some covariances to be zero. This is essentially an inappropriate assumption that the variables are independent. There had already been some suspicion that Stata was making assumptions like this implicitly.
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LinkedIn Project URLs, posted on 2026-02-05
LinkedIn has removed the ability to associate a ‘project’ with a URL. It seems the new flow that they want users to adopt is to associate ‘media’ with projects. These media items can have a URL or a static file.
I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.
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Now listening to
Maps & Atlases, also live at Edgewater Music Fest
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Now listening to
Inept, live at Edgewater Music Fest
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My most listened to music of the last 30 days. See more on LastFM.
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Articles from around the internet I would recommend reading.
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From: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Date: September 23, 2026
Subject: Here’s a causal inference problem: where did the estimate of $64 million come from in “Blake Lively Says She Suffered $64 Million Financial Fallout From Justin Baldoni Conflict . . .”?
OK, here’s a causal inference problem for ya: Blake Lively Says She Suffered $64 Million Financial Fallout From Justin Baldoni Conflict . . . In Lively’s memorandum in opposition to Wayfarer Studios’ motion in limine filed April 17, her expert … Continue …
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From: Drew DeVault's blog
Date: September 23, 2026
Subject: Why is Hacker News like that?
Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers”1 gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y Combinator, projects soft…
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From: Drezner’s World
Date: September 22, 2026
Subject: Welcome to the Wile E. Coyote Moment
For the next six weeks everyone in American politics will be acting as though the bottom has not fallen out of the GOP.
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