#Data

Cassie Kozyrkov

quaesita

0/ Essential philosophy for #DataScience, a thread of 32 questions. Grab a friend (virtually) and tackle these 32 essential questions (all with more than one reasonable answer) that every serious

David Boulware, MD MPH

boulware_dr

Today, the independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for the #COVID-19 post-exposure prophylaxis trial has reviewed the cumulative safety data from 783 participants in the ongoing #hydroxychloroquine prevention trial.

Kit Yates

Kit_Yates_Maths

A short thread on vaccination data:Rate of vaccination is starting to pick up again after a dip earlier in April.It's still majority second doses being given to keep pace with

Sahil Kapoor

SahilKapoor

RBI policy preview and some more ideas. A short thread.1. Expect 25bps rate cut, it's a close call though. But rate reduction should continue with 0 nominal growth in FY21.

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

Only 1.3% of U.S. COVID-19 cases are current smokers. Only 2.3% are former smokers. Possible explanation? Nicotine lowers ACE2 expression. (SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 for entry into target cells.)https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295500/ One major

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR THANKSGIVING THIS YEAR AND WHY DON'T WE ALL AGREE? A data analyst's perspective. Thread. MANAGING CORONAVIRUS RISK

Alex Collinson

Alex__Collinson

New figures show that trade union membership went up by 91,000 in 2019.This is the third year it's risen.Keep it rising, join a union. The number of women in trade

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UshaNirmala

Charges on "Big Tech" companies & some suggestions to bring order. From my old post:1/that they are self-styled “arbiters of truth”2/have become too powerful in their reach & influence3/abuse on

Mor Naaman

informor

NEW: our analysis, showing why Bernie fans are seen as more toxic on Twitter. We show there are *many* more active Bernie fans on Twitter, they reply to other candidates

GRRRR: Fabulous Wreck Shark

DarthMamaShark

Jokes aside, I find the PEPP-PT app freaking scary. I know folks working on a more privacy-preserving solution if you're going to do something like this, but let me say

Mark Magill

MarkMagill1982

Having a look at the @adzuna data on job postings, published on @ONS . Fascinating stuff. At the headline level, UK job postings were 2/3 of normal levels in Mid

Yackson Sesan Kayode

dearYackson

Ideas for the 14 days lockdown starting today ; if you have internet and a computer1. You can become proficient in the use of Microsoft excel, you can literally jump

Ryan D. Enos

RyanDEnos

The difficulty with claims like this is there is an implicit claim that the feelings represent reality - in this case, that people are self-censoring in a way that represents

desiree

swindlesoiree

Everything in this thread is complete bullshit, and you're all no better than the gatekeepers you like to complain about in other levels. You just decided that the people who

Doppelvizsla

doppelvizsla

So, I've now seen this in two different places. Count me very skeptical, based on a look at the data that is circulating on pastebin. Thread time. 1/? It's

Rajeev Venkayya MD

rvenkayya

More exciting vaccine news from Oxford/AstraZeneca. These would normally be considered very good results. Would be cautious about early comparisons to mRNA, given that we haven’t seen full datasets and