#Data

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rujeyli

Family planning post-1979 Islamic Revolution: Women and development.[A THREAD] After the Islamic Revolution in 1981 the Family Planning Law was abolished by the regime, which led to a population boom

Martin Hebart

martin_hebart

There seem to be a lot of misunderstandings regarding Amazon Mechanical Turk @amazonmturk that keep appearing here on Twitter. Here is my attempt at clearing some of them up. A

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Predictive policing tools work really well: they perfectly predict what the police will do. Specifically, they predict whom the police will accuse of crimes, and since only accused people are

Arieh Kovler

ariehkovler

Research from Israel has NOT found any vaccine-resistant coronavirus variants in the population. They compared the prevalence of different variants in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and found no difference.https://www.ynetnews.

Andrew Chen

andrewtychen

Should be on Morning Report around 0845 talking digital contact tracing eep 0745, glad I woke up early make that 0740, which is now in the past In summary: we

Mundia Njeri

nicholasmundia

#QatarAirways’ Data Demonstrates the Safety of Air Travel as More Than 99.988% of its Passengers Travel COVID-19-freehttp://the254hub.com/2020/10/23/qatar-airways-data-demonstrates-the-safety-of-air-travel-as-more-than-99-988-of-its-passe

The254Hub

254hub

#QatarAirways’ Data Demonstrates the Safety of Air Travel as More Than 99.988% of its Passengers Travel COVID-19-freehttp://the254hub.com/2020/10/23/qatar-airways-data-demonstrates-the-safety-of-air-travel-as-more-than-99-988-of-its-passe

Nick HK

nickchk

If you were teaching data viz and part of the class used ggplot2, what ggplot extensions would you cover (either teaching, or just mentioning for interested students)?So far:ggrepel, ggridges, directlabels,

Ari Paul ⛓️

AriDavidPaul

I’ve posted about covid19 a lot over the last few months, but never commented on if we should shut down the country or when we should re-open, because I didn’t

Sara Mauskopf

sm

0/ Ok it’s been a BIG week for news in the land of child care + covid. Let’s do this @Bob_Wachter style with the top updates 1/ Can kids spread

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW: great story from @alekswis & @BillyEhrenberg shows Britons sharply reduced activity during early phase of lockdown (and indeed pre-empted govt reccs), but in recent weeks activity levels have been

Nathaniel Popper

nathanielpopper

NEW: Robinhood has become a Silicon Valley success with a mantra of “democratizing finance.” We used new data and analysis to look at what it looks like under the hood.

Adie Tomer

AdieTomer

MAP THREAD: A major #COVID19 story is less physical travel in U.S. metro areas. So @larafishbane + I looked at @Google “Community Mobility Reports” to understand what might be happening.

William Isaac

wsisaac

When structural racism meets a global pandemic CV-19 Statistics from Michigan. Black residents make up roughly 14% of the state population but 41% of CV-19 related deaths. Sadly, most states

Stéphane Helleringer

helleringer143

We have a new pre-print out @socarxiv on the pressing need to conduct frequent mobile phone surveys to monitor excess deaths due to the #COVID19 pandemic in low income and

Sky Walker

skywalker_2k

1/ I just discovered something VERY unbelievable. If I read these data correctly, I think the FED might have tricked all of us. Let me explain, and see if you