Hello there. So, I never thought I'd ever be using Mastodon for this and its a longshot but I'm looking for a paid job. I'm a senior in College and I'm going to be graduating with a degree in business management in May and I want to be ready. For my skills, I'm well-versed in Microsoft products, particularly Microsoft Excel and Microsoft word though Excel is my prefered application considering I wish to work with spreadsheets. Yes, I'm totally blind but that shouldn't be an issue because of #screenreaders and #ADA#accommodations and #RemoteWork. So, if anyone is looking for a dedicated person who genuinely enjoys helping others and working with functions from #statistics to #financial functions using #appliedMath, I am willing to work for you so help me #GetFediHired. Resume will be sent apon request through DM's. Thank you, and boosts are absolutely encouraged.
I have run out of severance and now I'm running out of savings. It's do or die now, folks. Job offers, job leads, job hunting advice...please send them all my way, and/or boost for reach. Freelancing is on the table, too. Details about me and what I'm looking for, to follow.
English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale was born #OTD in 1820.
Nightingale became famous for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War (1853–1856). Beyond her work in the Crimean War, Nightingale was a prolific writer and statistician. She used statistical methods to analyze and present data on healthcare and public health, making significant contributions to the field of medical statistics.
The Royal Statistical Society has published a free eBook on Data Visualisation:
"Good data visualisation requires appreciation and careful consideration of the technical aspects of data presentation. But it also involves a creative element."
Written by Andreas Krause, @nrennie and Brian Tarran.
Sounds like a good resource for all scientists and people who need to visualise data.
Over the past couple years I've been doing more statistical consulting, and I just wrote a blog post about making effective requests for statistics help.
Closely inspired by Caitlin Hudon's data intake form, but specialized somewhat to research/consulting settings.
Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator & writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!
Nightingale earned the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her as a “ministering angel” making her solitary rounds of the hospital at night with “a little lamp in her hand”. 🧵1/n
#linocut#printmaking#sciart#womenInSTEM#datavis#nursing#statistics#mathart#MastoArt
You will use spatial optimisation to solve the mystery of how birds use geomagnetic field to find their way. Come work with me, @jedalong, Charlotte van der Lijn & Ciaran Beggan.
You'll be working with another reviewer to read and run the code, make sure it fills a basic checklist which usually only takes a few hours, and beyond that whatever youd like to focus on. Both of these are collaborative review processes where the goal is to help these packages be usable, well documented, and maintainable for the overall health of free scientific software.
Its fun, I promise! Happy to answer questions and boosts welcome.
Edit: feel free to volunteer as a reply here, DM me, or commenting on those issues! Anyone is welcome! Some experience with the language required, but other than that I can coach you through the rest.
The U.S. National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (aka Big Hot Dog) puts out a figure each year claiming to be the number of hot dogs an American eats annually and it's big. 70 hot dogs a year — not including bratwursts, sausages, veggie dogs, or pigs-in-blankets! Defector's Kelsey McKinney wrote this exhaustive investigation on where the heck this number comes from. To augment her research, fediverse-style, we want to know roughly how many hot dogs you personally consume a year. Story may be paywalled.
The MCMC sampling is simultaneously finished and unfinished before you wake your computer monitor and look at the progress bar. It's the Schrodinger's MCMC.
Then we invite you to a #workshop based upon a cross-UK survey of undergraduate teaching in study design and data analysis for #Biology, #Biomedical Science, #Medicine and #Psychology. The workshop aims to critically examine teaching practice with an eye on improving research reproducibility as a part of science reform.
What can you gain from the workshop?
Cross-disciplinary perspective on the challenges faced and approaches to overcome them, and solidarity that comes from openly discussing challenges;
Resources for teaching/to influence teaching of stats in an attendees’ own institution;
Opportunity to benchmark your teaching programs versus those nationwide;
Opportunity to gain “outside the box” (cross-discipline) perspective on why and how to teach study design and analysis;
Knowledge of approaches and software people are using across UK to do/teach data analysis.
The workshop will occur 12 June, 2024, at the University of Manchester. We anticipate the fee will be less than £20 (and will most likely be free)
Below, we provide links to (1) view the workshop's itinerary and (2) to sign up to indicate your general interest (we are gauging interest at the moment for organisational purposes; registration will follow).
Makes you understand important aspects of the world through beautifully visualized #statistics, photos, and quizzes that remove misconceptions. By a Swedish nonprofit.
In #QuantumFieldTheory, scattering amplitudes can be computed as sums of (very many) #FeynmanIntegral s. They contribute differently much, with most integrals contributing near the average (scaled to 1.0 in the plots), but a "long tail" of integrals that are larger by a significant factor.
We looked at patterns in these distributions, and one particularly striking one is that if instead of the Feynman integral P itself, you consider 1 divided by root of P, the distribution is almost Gaussian! To my knowledge, this is the first time anything like this has been observed. We only looked at one quantum field theory, the "phi^4 theory in 4 dimensions". It would be interesting to see if this is coincidence for this particular theory and class of Feynman integrals, or if it persists universally.
More background and relevant papers at https://paulbalduf.com/research/statistics-periods/ #quantum#physics#statistics