#Datasets

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Oldie but goldie. Coincidence that there’s a growing sliver of deaths attributed to covid19 in 4Q20, precisely compensating for the rather surprising observation that deaths from all other causes falls

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

Which metric is a better predictor of the severity of the fall surge in US states?1) Margin of Democrat victory in Nov 2020 electionor2) % infected through Sep 1, 2020Can

Nicky Whiffin

nickywhiffin

**Postdoc & PhD opportunities**Interested in using large genomic datasets to discover and analyse non-coding variants that cause rare diseases? Come work @HumanGeneticsOx @UniofOxfordhttps://www.whiffinlab.org/join-us Please share

Colin Angus

VictimOfMaths

Earlier this week @NatRecordsScot published new estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy for Scotland for 2017-19 showing huge inequality between areas.Which reminded me to have a look at the most recent

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

A thread about how COVID-deaths are recorded. (Full disclosure: I have personally written death certificates, and also overseen and investigated causes of death to countersign them, including COVID death certificates,

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

Quick cautionary tale. We're all desperate to find a vaccine effect. But I think there's a genuine danger that 100 people with Excel spreadsheets will find all kinds of bogus

Full Stack Deep Learning

full_stack_dl

1/ Our latest Production ML meetup features Erik Reppel (@programmer -- that handle tho ), a Sr ML Platform Engineer at Coinbase. We covered building reproducible / performant ML pipelines,

Dr. Frankenstein

allisonwilens

Data Collection and Organizing: A Thread of Reflective Questions. The ability to collect + consolidate data allows organizers to make accurate claims, show trends, and build relationships. It can also

Rob Arthur

No_Little_Plans

another great story from @Bbl_Astrophyscs documenting more physical changes to the baseball. Very cool she was able to reverse-engineer the batch codes.https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/02/09/mlb-ball-is-live-daily-cover It's so hard to figur

Marco Rogers

polotek

This will absolutely be used for evil. But the important thing to understand is that it will most likely be the incredibly banal kind. The kind where people give themselves

Tory Fibs

ToryFibs

•Children can transmit CV19•1,000 CV19 droplets can survive in air of a classroom for 8 minutes just from 1 person talking•5,000 UK kids CV19+, 500 hospitalised, 14 dead•75 teaching staff

Jasmine Mian

jasmine_mian

When I was 4, I got hit by a car and rushed to the hospital. My mom, a nurse, got a call saying my body had been taken to the

Huma Sattar

SattarHuma

Good news: it looks like Pakistan Bureau of Statistics is launching a new website. Yay? Bad news: I see an inordinate amount of downloadable PDFs, which are also available on

Jimmy Lin

lintool

Those who argue that curation is the answer to "more ethical AI/ML/LMs" come across as intellectually naive. Archivists have been grappling with this issue, literally, for millenia. They'd be well

Pepe Rodriguez

pitrod

Great news this week on the publication of our latest paper exploring ways to improve Environmental Risk Assesses of pesticides. A thread (1/13): https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/etc.4927 @etc_editor @AndreuRico3 @raque

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

This is a very well thought through analysis. It touches in excess non covid19 deaths following restricted access to healthcare for getting in for 10mo. This is evidently the reason.

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