lindamciver

lindamciver, 14 days ago to random

Laura Summers and I are writing a Teachers' Guide to AI, but we need help from teachers. Please share to all the teachers you know!
https://adsei.org/2024/05/17/teacher-guide-to-ai-please-help/

lindamciver, 28 days ago to random

When you penalise wrong answers, you build in a sense of shame and failure to being wrong that most people never get over. It leads to cheating, to covering up of mistakes, and to avoiding doing things where being wrong is a possibility.

https://adsei.org/2024/05/03/learning-to-be-wrong/

#EduSky

lindamciver, 1 month ago to random

In March 2024 I shared a survey online to see how covid cautious people are, and whether there's a correlation between levels of caution and number of covid infections. The resulting dataset is rich, complex, and deeply flawed (like all surveys and most real datasets!). There's scope for purely statistical investigations, and deep discussions about the ways in which such a survey is flawed.

I'm now releasing the full dataset (and it's live, so more results may come in) for student projects and any other investigations. Like all material on this site, it is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License, and I would love it if you shared your projects, thoughts, and results back with us, so that we can share them with interested teachers and students.

https://adsei.org/covid-experience-dataset/

lindamciver, 2 months ago to random

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

lindamciver, 3 months ago to random

this is absolutely on point

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-relentless-pressure-on-women-to-be-perfect-and-silent-to-deserve-their-success/

lindamciver, 3 months ago to random

Our family has been navigating the world of gender affirming care for some years now, and I am increasingly frustrated with how many of the health care decisions made for (not by!) trans folks are made for political reasons, rather than medical or health focused reasons. I'm going to write about that, but I'm just the parent of trans folks. I'm not trans. So first, I want to platform some trans voices, because I think we could build a vastly more inclusive world if more of us understood what it's like to be trans.

https://lindamciver.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/gender-affirming-care-part-1-wrens-story/

lindamciver, 3 months ago to random

cat’s in the bag

lindamciver, 3 months ago to random

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

lindamciver, 4 months ago to random

um...

" A more recent study shows that toxoplasma infection prevalence was a consistent, positive predictor of entrepreneurial activity."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31980266/

lindamciver, 4 months ago to random

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/

lindamciver, 4 months ago to random

Look, I'm a writer. I know there are too many superlatives in this piece. But there are not enough superlatives in the world for what @neilhimself and Fourplay did last night.

https://lindamciver.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/transcendent-and-creepy-all-at-once/

lindamciver, 4 months ago to random

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!

lindamciver, 4 months ago to random

me: you were smirking
16yo: I am not responsible for what my face does in its free time

lindamciver, 5 months ago to random

This conversation with Grant Ennis was enlightening and enraging. I'm thinking about activism and making change SO differently now. Check it out!

"So like while we would never believe that if we saw a stone rolling down a mountain, that if we all just stared at it and willed it back up the hill, it would do that, we do tend to believe that if we all individually do our part for the environment or ask people to just individually act that because people want that to be so and want that to work, that it just will, we believe that if we give people more information than then somehow just spontaneously they will change their behaviour, which really is quite fanciful."

https://adsei.org/podcast/grant-ennis/

lindamciver, 5 months ago to TodayILearned

The most important word there is not data, or coding, or even science. It's Students. The emphasis in this word cloud is not on technical skills, it's on people. And that's what Data Science is about, when you get down to the crux of it. It's about people. About purpose. About meaning.

https://adsei.org/2023/12/18/what-really-matters/

#teaching #learning #STEM #DataScience #education

lindamciver, 5 months ago to random

"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/

lindamciver, 6 months ago to random

Sometimes when a drug I am on causes side effects and I am prescribed another one to tackle the side effects, I start to suspect I will wind up swallowing a horse...

she swallowed the spider to catch the fly,...

lindamciver, 6 months ago to random

Tiktok is showing me heaps of trans content. Finally a positive use for the algorithm.

lindamciver, 7 months ago to random

I love this. This is a word cloud made from the quotes I noted down from episodes of Make Me Data Literate Podcast. Apart from the colours and the shape, I didn't tweak it at all, and what's the word at the centre of it all? People. It's so perfect. Data for its own sake is meaningless, but used to help us solve problems and make the world a better place? It's all about people! I love that there's nothing technical about this word cloud. It's all about impact!

There are some fabulous episodes coming up, but meanwhile there's a back catalog consisting of amazing folks like Ellen Broad, Polly Hemming, Owen Churches, Alan Duffy, Linden Ashcroft, Richard Denniss, 🧐 Laura Summers, Greg Jericho, Larene Le Gassick, Antony Green, Margaret Hellard, Juliette O'Brien OAM, Kate Carruthers, Paola Oliva-Altamirano, Jarrod Hughes, Ketan Joshi, and more! oh my goodness! It's been an extraordinary ride with incredible people who have been incredibly generous with their time and expertise. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://adsei.org/podcast/

lindamciver, 7 months ago to random

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

lindamciver, 7 months ago to random

This, tech industry. This is why we can't have nice things. https://adsei.org/2023/10/26/an-indictment-of-the-tech-industry/

lindamciver, 7 months ago to random

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

lindamciver, 7 months ago to random

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/

lindamciver, 7 months ago to random

If you see something, say something. It's time for us all to become science communicators.

https://adsei.org/2023/10/14/if-you-see-something-say-something/

lindamciver, 7 months ago to random

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”