Just a reminder fairness and transparency around who gets the vaccine first is critical. I know quite a number of people who shouldn't be first in line but who *will* pull all kinds of strings to get the vaccine now. My advise: Enroll in a vaccine trial!

#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience Thread about the great contribution of #Women to our NeEDS Project! Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions European Research Executive Agency CBS Department of Economics #riseneeds #datascience #mathematicaloptimization #complexdata #datadriven #decisionmaking

This new article in economic inquiry coauthored by Nick HK is absolutely terrifying. Seven competent people were given two causal studies to replicate from scratch. No two people even report the same sample size and the standard deviation across estimates was 4x SE of original!

Postdoc position at CBS Department of Economics to work with Dolores Romero Morales @doloresromerom.bsky.social team #orms #DataScience #MachineLearning #Economics

Preprint up. How sensitive are excess death estimates to choice of baseline model? Different models see the same pattern, but on different levels. Country rankings sensitive to model choice. Some approaches systematically biased. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… CPop SDU

“This might be the worst approval decision that the F.D.A. has made that I can remember,” said Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who submitted his resignation Thursday....” nytimes.com/2021/06/10/hea…

Making people responsible for shit they did during COVID...

If I had a dollar for every time I have called out the Charlson in peer review...

God kronik fra mine kolleger i Statens Serum Institut's ekspertgruppen. politiken.dk/debat/debatind…

with Laust Mortensen Tim Bruckner Elias StapputKnudsen

Good luck to the applicants, from our NeEDS Project ! #orms #XAI #datascience Jochen De Weerdt emiliocarrizosa.bsky.social Richard Weber Laust Mortensen Niels Ploug - arbejder især med bæredygtighed Isabel Pozuelo José Manuel Raposo CBS.nl Statistics Netherlands Tesco Repsol Worldwide Ageas Group Cynthia Rudin University of Oxford #DSB #BancoEstado

🚨EURO #PhDSchool on #DataDriven #DecisionMaking and #Optimization, June 13-22, 2022, IMUS-Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla, @imus_es 📢Registration Open congreso.us.es/epsdata/ congreso.us.es/epsdata/docs/E… @EUROonline_News CBS Department of Economics NeEDS Project Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

To set the stage, here is the 14-day SAR for different Variant of Concerns (VOC). “New” #Omicron BA.2 (red): 42% “Original” #Omicron BA.1 (blue): 35% #Delta VOC (purple): 33% Unknown VOC (no WGS results on sample) (gray): 33% 3/

The work was completed while I was in Italy getting a nice SARS-CoV-2 infections while skiing. Poetic justice after leaving my coauthors with the work, I guess😎

THIS IS THE KEY POINT: BA.2 > BA.1 > DELTA. I AM SO UPSET I CAN'T STOP YELLING.

Yes, COVID is on par with Flu in terms of risk to kids, but more to the point, the amount of restrictions we placed on children is in no way whatsoever commensurate with their risk of COVID. We restructured their entire lives, and deprived them of a year of education. Horrible

FYI: simple benchmark (330k rows, 65k groups, 6 cols) using latest CRAN binaries of {collapse}, {dplyr} & {data.table}. Results: (1) {collapse} is also competitive to {data.table} with base R functions. (2) {dplyr} code can run <= 100x faster using {collapse}. #RStats #tidyverse

What joy to log on to twitter and not find brain numbing amounts of COVID-related crap, just brain numbing amounts of old school twitter crap!

Having interesting discussions on #interpretability and different models at @DSTdk with Laust Mortensen! Thanks NeEDS Project for making it possible! #riseneeds #XAI