Happy approximate 110th birthday, John Tukey! https://www.xkcd.com/3104/
Associate professor of stats & data science at University of St Thomas. UCLA/Macalester alumna. Into data visualization and open science, obsessed with R. #RStats #tidyverse #DataViz
Happy approximate 110th birthday, John Tukey! https://www.xkcd.com/3104/
Ten years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mm9303x Skimming it again, I have a bit of that cringe-y feeling, like listening to your voice on the answering machine. But surprisingly, a lot of it holds up!
Saint Cloud, Stearns, Benton, and Sherburne Counties, Minnesota. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn04377_002/
One of the worst parts about my institution is the culture of wide-eyed obsequence to AI. Our provost, VPs, deans, and many faculty are extremely pro-AI.
As an example, see this "Tommie Expert" piece about the use of facial recognition in criminal investigations: https://news.stthomas.edu/tommie-expert-why-facial-recognition-deserves-a-role-in-criminal-investigations/
I hate being associated with an institution that is so publicly pro-AI. I have spoken to upper administration about this, and they are very committed to continuing as a "AI leader" or whatever.
If you want to do something to help, continue (or start!) masking in indoor public spaces.
Of course we would love better indoor air quality regulations, and more research into the condition. In the US, those things are not going to happen for a while. Masking protects you and your community! Many viruses can trigger ME/CFS, although covid is the most common trigger these days.
#mecfs #MECFSAwarenessDay #myalgicencephalomyelitis #LongCovid
It's International ME/CFS awareness day. My sibling has ME/CFS, brought on by long covid. They've been bedridden for eight months now, unable to even listen to music because it's too much exertion. To learn more, I recommend this Ologies podcast episode: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/postviralepidemiology #mecfs #MECFSAwarenessDay #myalgicencephalomyelitis #LongCovid
Today marks 6 months that my younger sibling has been completely bedridden from long covid. They can't sit up, listen to music, look at screens, handle much spoken conversation, and much more.
Covid rates are down, but the pandemic is very much not over. Protect yourself and your community-- mask!
Interesting to read about the connection between my institution and the Selma to Montgomery march. https://news.stthomas.edu/tales-from-the-archives-st-thomas-selma-connection/
Looking for the answer to a piece of stats trivia/history-- why is it called the "t" distribution? (In other words, it could be named any other letter or word, why t?)
Doing my best to get away from FAANG companies (do we still call them that?) so I'm moving from Goodreads to @thestorygraph I must not be the only one with that idea!
I have printed up some Red Cards in languages commonly spoken by immigrants in my area https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas Everyone should know their rights. You don't have to open the door for ICE
@srvanderplas @dripapp IANAL but I think you can be required to hand over devices in some circumstances, but providing the device password is not required. I don't use biometrics on any of my devices for exactly that reason!
@srvanderplas @dripapp like, from me directly?
The answer to this seems to be Drip: https://dripapp.org/ The app stores cycle data locally on your phone, rather than in the cloud. They have data converters for Flo and Clue, and if you previously used Natural Cycles, my conversion code is here: https://github.com/AmeliaMN/NaturalCyclesToDrip @dripapp
Americans who menstruate-- how are we cycle tracking now? I used Natural Cycles for years (and their data policy is one of the best out there) but it's time to let it go. I would love to do some of the prediction they offer in R or similar. #datascience #menstrualcycle #fertility #rstats
There are many things I love about Calendly, but one is definitely their year-end summary. 261 meetings booked with me in 2024! If you are someone with a complicated calendar who needs to do a lot of meeting scheduling, I highly recommend Calendly.