Doctor, nerd cheerleader, Bad Science person, stats geek, procrastinator. I run ebmdatalab.net at @uniofoxford making tools+papers from data ben@badscience.net
Oxford, England
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Do you work in Public Health Intelligence / Analysis? Strong skills in R and/or Python? COME AND WORK WITH US.
We will consider SECONDMENTS with your salary paid by us, your org, or a mix of the two.
You'll be using/building open source data science tools for COVID and beyond.
We've built a huge, open source, highly secure analytics platform for NHS data.
Read our manual:
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Then COME AND WORK WITH US.
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We want developers and researchers who share our mission. Grade 7, Grade 8, or clinical academic.
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Just reminded in a discussion of Cory @Doctorow's great essay on Adversarial Interoperability eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/ad…
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This photo. What do you see? What jobs do you think they do?
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This is the most amazingly surreal video...
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It's pretty mind-blowing. Politicians both good and bad will take note of episodes like these: some people really, really do listen to what you say; they take it very deeply to heart; and they act on it.
“I would like a pardon from the President of the United States.”
Dallas area realtor Jenna Ryan is the 2nd D.C. riot participant to ask for one. She flew on a private jet to D.C. to “stop the steal.” FBI arrested her today. She says: I feel persecuted.
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I'm afraid I just spoke sternly in a raised voice to a group of 15 people in their 20s, French I think, many smoking cigarettes, walking in a dense herd towards me and a small kid, we couldn't get into the road. Twitter is a bit hatey these days, I try to share sunshine. Sorry.
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I walked past this Mexican restaurant in Manchester the other day, and I will be going back the second it reopens:
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I've put four comedy huge, all terrain, 100mm mountainboard wheels on my skateboard. It is a smooth and age appropriate ride.
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“It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection... and we’ll do it as many times as it takes.”
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Myths and conspiracies musically debunked! Well done and thank you Marsh family! #HaveTheNewJab #vaccine #Pandemic #Breathe #ThankYouNHS
This is awesome. Loved their lockdown one and this is a bonus.
“Have The New Jab" - "Hallelujah" adapted by the Marsh Family invidio.us/ZnbOKH9Oe9s via @YouTube
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If you like technic Lego, or not, this video of a one googol ratio gear reduction is pleasingly stupid.
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(Mixed bags of Technic Lego by the kilo on eBay, btw: what a massive joy, buy a motor and have some fun).
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The FBI says Kevin Lyons was "evasive" at first about being inside the Capitol. Then, when agents showed him an Instagram pic he'd taken & posted of Nancy Pelosi's office, he caved.
"Wow, you're pretty good," he said. "That was only up for an hour."
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Found it! Simpler times!
Our @EBMDataLab team are heroic, every one.
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Here I experimentally render my admiration through the medium of CROCKERY.
Some of our best papers, in mug form.
More to come!
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When you're running I love how, as you run into the road to avoid someone on the pavement, you get the "thanks for not being a dick" smile/nod back.
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I think @ONS have been great during this pandemic. Talking with their folk about how at OpenSAFELY we do open code by default, curation-as-you-go, avoiding code dumps, light touch pragmatic standardisation, making open easy, etc. Lots to share, and lots to learn from them too.
One not to miss: an Integrated Data Platform event for @ONS feat Dr Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre. Ben will talk about having an open approach to research (including code-sharing) + a Q&A. Register now and you'll get the event link closer to the date: bit.ly/IDPBenGoldacreEvent 🖥️
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A vivid, positive, energetic, warts-and-all view of the vaccine roll-out from one part of the system. Friends and colleagues on this, nationally and locally: you are marvellous. We all pay them back by following the rules: stop the spread, protect the NHS
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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