Arthur Charpentier's presentation at the Side Summer School in July 2019 focused on causality, observation, and inference in social sciences, emphasizing that data alone cannot solve selection problems. He illustrated key concepts such as counterfactuals, Simpson’s Paradox, and ecological fallacy using examples like graduate admissions data and causal graphs. The document discusses the interplay between machine learning, econometrics, and the philosophical underpinnings of causation and statistical reasoning.