ERDonnachie

@ERDonnachie@mstdn.social

Statistician (CStat), Health Services Research.
Munich, Germany.
#Statistics #Stats #DataScience #HealthServicesResearch #Versorgungsforschung #HealthDataScience #Epidemiology #RStats
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jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

This is tragic

One determined cyclist in Oberhausen keeps repeatedly reporting illegally parked cars in one street, and fines keep getting issued

Everyone accepts the cars are illegally parked

And the inhabitants are annoyed about the cyclist

Why isn’t the Ordnungsamt doing what the cyclist is doing and reporting the infringements?

https://www.tz.de/welt/strafe-anwohner-streit-eskaliert-radfahrer-aerger-falschparker-anzeige-92753980.html#google_vignette

ERDonnachie,

@smveerman @jon
There was a case of this in Bavaria too.

The problem is, it reflects badly on the German psyche. On the one hand, the arrogance of people who park illegally. On the other hand, the tendency to interfere in things that other people are doing "wrong". It gets nasty when parents are "chastised" for having "unruly" children, or for just standing left on the escalator. I was once called "asocial" for using the escalator because some pensioner thought I should be taking the stairs.

ERDonnachie,

@jon @smveerman As I said, both the illegal parking and the behaviour of the cyclist reflect poorly on the German character.

ERDonnachie, to random

I've been rereading 1984 lately, and Orwell's evocation of the "two minutes of hate" really does remind me of Twitter: a daily, almost compulsory episode of targeted rage, designed to draw even the sceptical into an emotional social rage against the designated object(s) of hate.

On first reading many years ago, it appeared to be a very distant and dystopian concept. But our polarised world is just full of it, and not just on social media.

jwildeboer, to random German
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net avatar

People that left — where did you move your domains to? (I’d prefer to move to a company that is located in the EU)

ERDonnachie,

@maswaba @jwildeboer
I'm with domainfactory and also quite happy. But I'd like to know where .org domains are less than €2 per month :-)

Their address in Munich is quite interesting though (WeWork...)
https://www.df.eu/de/support/kontakt/

lilithsaintcrow, to random
@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com avatar

Since Substack is okay with Nazis, how about a thread of alternatives for people looking to get out, and possibly take their audiences with them?

ERDonnachie,

@lilithsaintcrow @rpardee "Your subscribers are all migrated to Buttondown" - without their permission, which is questionable from a data protection viewpoint. Regardless how much more we (think we) can trust Buttondown.

Think: would it be OK if someone sent out details from a Buttondown newsletter we subscribed to, to substack.

Buttonstack appears to be a very good option for new Newsletters though.

ERDonnachie,

@lilithsaintcrow @rpardee
Not my view, that's data protection. You can't pass personally identifiable information such as an email address to a third party without the express permission of the person involved.

ERDonnachie, to Health

Continuity of care - seeing the same GP regularly over an extended period - is associated with better health outcomes.

But here, Germany is actually far behind the NHS. Patients can, and do, consult multiple GPs without any of these GPs even being aware of the previous consultations.

Even with the widespread introduction of an electronic patient record, its unclear how much this will help GPs understand a patient's consulation history.

ERDonnachie, to 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.

https://royal-statistical-society.github.io/datavisguide/

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

And sure, a 320km/h 2x8 carriage double deck 4 voltage 3 gauge go anywhere night train would be great

But there’s not a hope in hell you’re going to engineer or finance that

A good fleet of a few hundred 200km/h night train carriages that can run on any normal speed standard gauge line and be hauled by different locomotives depending where you run is good enough and can be built right away

ERDonnachie,

@jon
Sounds like an eierlegende Wollmilchsau to me.

(do we have an english version of that?)

nextcloud, to random
@nextcloud@mastodon.xyz avatar

FDP, the liberal party in Germany plans now to use AI to create speeches, statements, and citizen inquiries.🤖

🗣️Does it also raise your concerns that a political party now wants to use AI-generated content?

Share your perspective!

ERDonnachie,

@nextcloud
That might be an improvement for the FDP, to be honest.

Though it does concern me that we won't be hearing the ideas of the FDP want, but of some strange, copycat AI.

jon, (edited ) to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

And today I needed to go to the Bezirkswahlamt

No-one in Rathaus Neukölln knew where it was 😀

Room 371 (signposted, but no, room empty)
Room 449 (it was a planning office)
Room 202 (it was a BVV room, wrong)

Finally Room 4021 worked. And I have the papers! 🎉

ERDonnachie,

@jon
Asterix goes to Rome?

davidho, to random
@davidho@mastodon.world avatar

Scientists can live for eons when hiding in cold areas because metabolism slows down.

ERDonnachie,

@davidho
I thought that was @lowqualityfacts at first. But wait, someone actually wrote that?

ERDonnachie,

@doomscroller @davidho
Well, this lady seems to get quite close.

The photography on BBC Frozen Planet II is just amazing, but you really do ask how they did it.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/60136/frozen-planets-helen-hobin-my-glacier-obsession

eddelbuettel, to random
@eddelbuettel@mastodon.social avatar

Dang. %||% coming to base R in R 4.4.0 next April.

ERDonnachie,

@eddelbuettel
Not sure how I feel about that, to be honest. Does that produce better, more concise code, or just add unnecessary added complexity.

hrbrmstr, to random
@hrbrmstr@mastodon.social avatar

for folks ( or otherwise) who are playing with the bleeding edge features like Typst and dashboards…

There's a Qmd YAML header option:

quarto-required

which you can set to a relative semver… i.e.,

quarto-required: ">=1.4.446"

that will cause Quarto to not render the document if the version constraint is not met.

Super useful to help folks who may stumble across your work but are stuck on the "boring" releases due to IT workstation/server constraints.

ERDonnachie,

@hrbrmstr
The nice thing about Quarto is that you can install it to any directory and use an environment variable (RSTUDIO_QUARTO?) to point to the latest version even when an RStudio upgrade is more complex.

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

I inconvenience myself enough by travelling by train and bike

The last thing I need is to be treated as a criminal for doing so

We are doing everything wrong

I’m pretty certain I’m literally the only person in this audience who cycled here

ERDonnachie,

@jon
What do you mean by "treated as a criminal". (sounds like Bavarian restaurant service to me...)

ERDonnachie,

@jon
Oh. At least that's something the Germans would do better? Well, sometimes at least...

ERDonnachie, to ai

I just asked Bing if there are people who lived in areas with daylight savings time, who refuse to comply and live all year in winter time.

It gave me some interesting examples from the web:

  • Tom Eiland, from Arizona,
  • Karen Bergeron from Nashville
  • The town of Creston, British Columbia

I asked if these were real people, and Bing gave me convincing details of articles from the BBC and Washington Post to prove it, including titles.

The only problem: Bing has made this all up.

brodriguesco, to random
@brodriguesco@fosstodon.org avatar

New X blog post:

https://www.brodrigues.co/blog/2023-10-20-nix_for_r_part7/

Reproducible data science with Nix, part 7 -- Building a book using Nix on Github Actions

ERDonnachie,

@brodriguesco
That meme is actually very interesting. Because, unlike with some other versions, both buttons have their time and place. Sometimes we don't actually care about reproducibility: we need results to send to the board "by 3pm today". Other times, reproducibility is obviously important, and sometimes, such projects grow out of the "quick" analyses.

But I don't know what nix is, so will have to take a look at that...

coreyspowell, to science
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social avatar

The winners of this year's "Small World" micro-photo competition are out. I'm especially intrigued by this astonishing shot: a struck match, caught at the exact moment of ignition.
(It ended up in second place, go figure.)
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrography-competition

ERDonnachie,

@coreyspowell
I think all those photos are fascinating, but this is, I think, the only one showing "something fascinating happening".

sims, to random

Why do people at conference talks introduce themselves or others as professionals "by training"?

"So the next speaker is Fred. Fred actually is an anesthesiologist by training."

I don't understand. Compared to all the uneducated anesthesiologists that received no training? Is this even a thing?

ERDonnachie,

@shawnhooper @sims
Yes, exactly. It's about who we are as a person. How we "were trained" influences e.g. the approach we take to solve problems. It's a useful thing to know about someone.

Poe, to random

"when will Bluesky add gifs"
"when will Bluesky add video"
"when will Bluesky add DMs"
"when will Bluesky add polls"
"when will Bluesky add muting words"

meanwhile:

ERDonnachie,

@philpem @Takiro
That does seem to be a good idea. No idea how that would work technically, but I have noticed that certain instances are a bit overzealous in defederating other instances that upset their ideological sensibilities. I'm happy to be somewhere that is more restrained and less ideologically driven.

w7voa, to twitter
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

The platform formerly known as will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, quote, repost, like, bookmark, and create list, reports Fortune.
https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

ERDonnachie,

@w7voa
Not a bad idea, to be honest. Reduce the amount of bots, and he's perfectly entitled to charge users (what is just a token amount).

mbonsma, to random
@mbonsma@mastodon.social avatar

Pedestrians, it should be our right to be distracted. It should be our right to walk and listen to music / look at the sky / cute dogs / snowflakes and not worry about getting killed. Nothing about that is dangerous except for CARS. Don't let them make you believe you are the problem.

ERDonnachie,

@mbonsma
And bicycles, of course. Or e-scooters. Or other padestrians.

Lots of things outside require our attension and could be dangerous if we, or they, are careless.

rikefranke, to random
@rikefranke@bagarrosphere.fr avatar

“The Jewish state is founded on the premise that antisemitism is global and ineradicable — and that no one will save the Jews except the Jews themselves. If, at this traumatic moment, foreigners arrive in Israel with lectures rather than deep and genuine sympathy they will not be listened to.”

Supporting Israel and protecting Palestinians are not contradictory policies https://on.ft.com/46T0SMJ

ERDonnachie,

@rikefranke
Presumably Biden understands that? Blinken at least seemed to.

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