She rocked it (as always) and added some takeaways for practitioners looking to do data science for social good effectively

me trying to not have bad posture from coding all day x.com/naturevirals/s…

It's not in the news as much anymore, but please don't forget that incarcerated people are still contracting and dying from covid at devastating rates. Covid cases in federal and state prisons have been 5.5 times higher—and death rates 3 times higher—than the general population.

We don't have projections beyond Nov 1 because we want to avoid misleading headlines (like below). No one knows what's going to happen in 2+ months. Forecasting certainty when there is very little can undermine public trust in the scientific community. x.com/AliHMokdad/sta…

Thread: Last week, a list of 100 important NLP papers (github.com/mhagiwara/100-…) went viral. The list is okay, but it has almost *no* papers with female first authors. NLP is rich with amazing female researchers and mentors. Here is one paper I like for each area on the list:

Agree with this piece but this is a polite way to put it. Forecasts beyond the immediate future suggest that COVID is a force of nature and not a social choice. Not only are they unreliable, but they suggest incorrectly that we are not in control, when we are. Taiwan vs. USA.

❗️Did you know that *study after study* finds most people don't seem to transmit COVID at all? That a small percent is responsible for almost all infections? That R is not that informative? My new piece on why this may be key to controlling the pandemic. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Today’s other big news was Biden’s COVID task force. I’m definitely happy to see so many experts but I also wish there were more science communicators, nurses & caregivers, sociologists, and public health (as opposed to medical) pandemic experts.

How do you mobilize people for the battle against COVID-19? For starters, don't call it a battle. That insight is among many in our latest COVID Focus Report. Highlights here: hubs.la/H0Bv7SZ0

A hearing happened yesterday that could radically change how we use the internet. Depending on how the Supreme Court rules on Van Buren vs U.S., third-party scraping could become a criminal activity. #scrapingisnotacrime

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When a company like Google or Microsoft or OpenAI builds these gargantuan models so that *they,* our benevolent tech dictators, get to exclusively decide what kinds of problems they want their models to tackle, that does NOT make the world a more equitable place!

🚨Education Data Portal update🚨 New data AND new features on the portal! While the new data is exciting in its own right, I want to talk about a major new feature: the ability to summarize hundreds of millions of rows of data in seconds. 1/

It's also disappointing to see experts spend countless hours in December debating the need to ensure EQUITY, not just SPEED, in vaccine distribution, yet just three months later use speed of vaccination as the metric to "rank" states. ctmirror.org/2021/02/25/bla…

We'll do it too late in the misguided belief that that will help the economy. That surge and delayed lockdown will do more damage to the economy than a proactive, responsible shut down will do. Anyway, it's too bad, but pretty predictable at this point.

Looking at the graph below, it's clear that Canada has actually gotten more vaccine than most countries. The reason we are in the midst of a brutal third wave and other places are not is not because of our vaccine supply.

In her Note, Rebecca Steele (Yale Law School ’21) analyzes pathways criminal defendants can pursue to access evidence within the SCA and argues that the statute is unconstitutional as applied to cases where such pathways to exculpatory evidence are blocked: yalelawjournal.org/note/equalizin…

Healthcare workers stand united in support of Supervised Consumption Sites (SCS) in Ontario. With recent closures announced, we must act now! (1/2)

Very happy to write this with Temerty Medicine student, Josh Feldman, and USask Medicine #familymed resident David El Sabawy Relevant to every single patient and provider in Canada! Please share and join the discussion about Our Health Data ourhealthdata.ca