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davidbraze

@davidbraze@mstdn.social

I know things about data. Working in Data Analysis & Visualization. Interests in Cognitive Science, Education, Reading, Language & Social Determinants of a good life. Data doodles are my jam. #Connecticut #Emacs #Linux #DataScience #RStats #SAS #SQL #Python.

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davidbraze, to connecticut
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I think we'll put off our morning walk till later

LewieKong, to linux

Okay users. I have successfully installed Mint 21. I've installed all the updates, media codecs and language packs and made sure that it doesn't require any additional drivers. Is there anything else I need to do?

davidbraze,
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@LewieKong swap out the default theme

davidbraze, to connecticut
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"the misreporting skewed racial profiling data making it appear troopers ticketed more white drivers and fewer minority motorists than they really did."

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/ct-state-police-troopers-false-tickets-18162917.php

davidbraze, to connecticut
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The state of needs to set up it's own server

https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2023/07/07/twitter-gives-state-websites-the-silent-treatment/

ankehildebrandt, to random German

Searching for : Job opportunity @ufz for leading position on monitoring and interpreting ecosystem exchange processes related to climate and land use change using eddy towers.

Application deadline is August 13.
https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/2779/Description/2

davidbraze,
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@ankehildebrandt @ufz

I heard that primary investigator Eddy Covariance is going to be the new frontman for The Hong Kong Caveliers

davidbraze, to random
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"Here is how [social media] platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

davidbraze, (edited ) to linux
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dusted off a 2015 vintage Dell optiplex mini tower that had been sitting idle for about 4 years, plugged in a wifi card and installed (originally ran Windows 10)

it works like a champ

dunno yet what I'm going to do with it though

davidbraze, to random
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I'm thinking "nepotic admission" is a better term for what we're talking about

https://mstdn.social/@davidbraze/110684144197264348

davidbraze, to random
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about 1 in 7 Yale undergrads is a legacy admission

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/yale-legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-18189608.php?src=nhrhpdesecp

davidbraze, to connecticut
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hospitals cheat when it comes to measuring outcomes

https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2023/07/07/analysis-healthcare-funding-should-be-based-on-quality-but-use-all-the-metrics/

brembs, to random
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I've seen many of the reasons why is called by virtually everybody.

But this really takes the cake:

https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-journal

If you ever needed a single, 5min explanation of one of the many reasons why we need to replace academic journals,, this is the one.

Here are the other reasons:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

davidbraze,
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@brembs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...?wprov=sfla1

davidbraze, to random
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I'm pretty sure they were not marketing to "the general public"

", which had spent years marketing to the general public that, for a fee of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, it would bring people to the most famous shipwreck on Earth"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

davidbraze, to random
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Spouse's laptop crapped out the other day (a chromebook that's served her well). I dragged my old daily driver out of a closet where it's been sitting for about 4 years, a lenovo thinkpad running windows 10. It's working okay for her, though battery life is not what it could be.

coolbutuseless, to ELI5
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WTF is going on at @Posit ?

davidbraze,
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@coolbutuseless @Posit

My entirely uninformed guess is that they got a new VC sugar daddy, who is now steering the ship

lori, to random

I saw a thread the other day basically talking about how we need to bring back Yahoo style directories and the best way to go about that and I think a lot of people are trying to way over engineer it.

Why not start small? If you have a blog, make your own page with a directory of your best sources for the topics that interest you. Then we either webring that shit or compile them later. But this is something you can start with now, you can go out this week and compile your best sources. You can link to other people's directories you find useful and create a network. Then if someone wants to curate all that into "Xahoo.com" later then we've got a head start. We don't need to fuss around over the tech, we need the information.

davidbraze,
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@lori

https://github.com/davebraze/FDBeye/wiki/Researcher-Contributed-Eye-Tracking-Tools

davidbraze, to random
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It isn't Roberts' lack of courage that's the problem

It's his lack of integrity or a moral compass

"Chief Justice Roberts has the power to change that, but so far he hasn't shown the courage. If he fails to do his job, Congress must do theirs"

https://www.rawstory.com/amy-coney-barrett-ethics/

lars_dalby, to rstats
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Currently my R session will crash if I call usethis::use_version() and choose one of the option and hit enter. Has anyone in the @rstats experienced this?

Clip showing a call to usethis::use_version() from RStudio which results in a crash of the R session

davidbraze,
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@lars_dalby @rstats

What happens if you explicitly pass the 'which' argument to use_version ?

davidbraze,
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@lars_dalby @rstats

Does it crash with other values of 'which' ?

Whether yes or no, I might want to rule out something being off with either the formatting or the encoding of your DESCRIPTION file

Do you get similar crashes in all of your projects?

What happens if you create a brand new package (usethis::create_package) and then try use_version there?

davidbraze, to random
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An awful lot of "storytelling with data" is plain storytelling

The data is just window dressing, at best

davidbraze,
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@ShravanVasishth

I hear you. I never really lost faith in the idea that intuitions of experts, in their field of expertise, have real value, subject to confirmation

Still, attitudes and practices around experimentation and data analysis have changed for the better from where they were when you and I were getting started

That said, my outburst was maybe more directed toward "storytelling with data" as practiced in business informatics and adjacent areas than in scientific research

Ugh

davidbraze,
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@ShravanVasishth

You're right, of course. The state of the discipline may be better, but it's still not good

I have little direct involvement in research these days

One consequence is that I do little reviewing, but when I do, my experience is similar to yours

Also, what research I read is often outside my own domain of expertise, But I see the same methodological issues and storytelling everywhere

One cause, I'm sure, are incentives around academic research, but I'm saying nothing new

davidbraze, to random
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Stepped on a nail, 10 years to the month after my last Tdap shot

So, went in and got the booster

mattcowgill, to random
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Posit (formerly RStudio) did a round of layoffs!?

Makes me sad for the people involved, and also concerned about what the future holds for the + Tidyverse ecosystem.

davidbraze,
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@mattcowgill

I still would like to know

https://mstdn.social/@davidbraze/110579200243329784

davidbraze, (edited ) to random
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So, how many people were laid off by @posit_pbc in its most recent cuts?

What proportion of their total workforce?

What team(s)?

luckytran, to random
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Hospitals are no longer required to report hospital-acquired COVID to CDC, as the US goes into full denial.

https://www.aha.org/special-bulletin/2023-04-27-cdc-streamline-hospital-covid-19-data-reporting-requirements

davidbraze,
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@luckytran

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/disease-detectives-gathered-at-cdc-event-a-covid-outbreak-erupted/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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