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lindamciver

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Educator, Writer, Troublemaker, Computer Scientist. Not necessarily in that order. Warning: "May attack the education system if left unsupervised (supervision might not be sufficient)" (quote credit: Solara) She/Her, living and working on unceded Wurundjeri/Bunurong land. ED of the Australian Data Science Education Institute, author of Raising Heretics. Podcaster at Make Me Data Literate.

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What kind of science do you wish people understood? What science do people need to understand in order to make the world a better place?

Obviously Epidemiology & the spread of infectious diseases, ecology, and climate science are right up there.

I'd add food science - by which I mean how food cooks, how/when bacteria grow in food, what happens to different foods when you refrigerate or freeze them, or expose them to oxygen, and nutritrion,

as well as health - what does your body need to be healthy, how do you know when you're getting sick, what do we know and not know about how the body works.

I'd add the psychology of marketing, of sleep, and of learning.

Also the physics of motion - stopping distance, friction, water, etc.

And the nature of science itself.

What would you have in that list?

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Every year, around this time, I get miserable and low. I start to wonder why I bother doing the hard yards, breaking new ground, trying to change the world. What’s even the point? does anyone notice? does anyone even care?

And eventually I realise it’s August and Melbourne winter is not my friend, and although it doesn’t fix it, the realisation helps me claw my way through to Spring.

So if you’re in the frozen south and also struggling - hang in there! It gets better!!

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Higher than normal call volumes are the new normal.

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I need jokes and cute pictures, please. Here is a picture of Emerald being beguiling for tax.

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What's your preferred audio transcription software/service? Free or low cost, for preference. I won't need to do more than two or three files per month.

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recommendations for portable co2 meters/monitors?

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autoscaling graphs have set the cause of data literacy back decades.

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you know we talk a lot about the evils of social media algorithms, but tiktok seems to be radicalising me with otter videos and I’m very ok with it.

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having a tough time. please send pet pics.

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is there such a thing as a cheap but reasonably accurate CO2 sensor, preferably with some form of data logging? I'm thinking cheap enough for class sets to be affordable.

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Hey, people with android phones, what format does the health and fitness data come in if you download it? can you please tell me the brand of phone and the file extension of the download(s)? If you’re super keen, are you willing to share the data? I want to write something about the accessibility of the data.

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I would like a label on books, especially romances, that says “the main protagonists in this book display emotionally intelligent and rational communication and conflict resolution styles most of the time “ or, more succinctly: “you are unlikely to need to throw this book through a window”

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My GP clinic has a sign at the door saying they encourage everyone to wear masks, for the safety of the whole community. There are three admin staff at the front desk, none of whom are masked.

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ok, so from my explorations, with the kind help of several generous android users, it appears that downloading your own health data is a bitch regardless of platform. What’s your take on why they don’t want us to be able to access our data freely?

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Copping a pasting from the offspring for checking work email while on medical leave.

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New episode of Make Me Data Literate just out, with the fascinating @kcarruthers on accidentally becoming a data person, and the people side of data.

https://adsei.org/podcast/kate-carruthers-on-data-governance-and-the-people-side-of-data/

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"data governance is not a topic that gets a lot of love. people yeah switch off when they hear it, but it really makes a huge amount of difference to what you're able to do with data (and not just avoiding big regulator fines)" new episode of MMDL with Fiona Tweedie!

https://adsei.org/podcast/fiona-tweedie-on-data-governance/

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There is a difference between not being able to guarantee flights, and selling seats on flights that you can guarantee will not fly.

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It's important to remember that there is no moral dimension to food. Nor is there a moral dimension to clothing. Live and let live, eat and let eat, wear and let wear!

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We could easily spend years talking about all the possible problems with data, but that's not helpful when you have a dataset in front of you here and now. So what are some questions you can ask about quantitative data to figure out whether you can trust it?

https://adsei.org/2024/01/22/whats-wrong-with-this-data/

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Got home late last night. Greeted by Emerald’s famous “What time do you call THIS??” stare

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cat’s in the bag

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have just realised that there is a renowned gf bakery within walking distance of the hospital I will be in next week. Never mind the flowers, fam!

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how many years do you need to live without a record player before you accept the need to get rid of your records? Asking for a friend…

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Folks, I'm running a little survey to evaluate people's attitudes to taking covid precautions, and how that relates to catching covid. As an online survey, it's not exactly gold standard research! But it should still give some interesting insights. Please fill it out (it should be pretty quick!), and please share!
https://forms.gle/1f2owXNrijYFsrHZA

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