Erik Westlund
@erikwestlund.bsky.social
Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins Department of Biostatistics, joint with JHU School of Medicine. I do/teach data science, applied stats, and software engineering in public health, medicine, bioinformatics, and social science. History major, PhD in HTML.
Join the Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center tomorrow for their (free) webinar "Fundamentals of Data Visualization," hosted by Erik Westlund, PhD, Assistant Scientist in the Dept of Biostatistics. publichealth.jhu.edu/events/2026/...
Chat with Biostats: Fundamentals of Data Visualization | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Fundamentals of Data Visualization
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kinda crazy how this stupid fucking video predicted so much, and it's from 2010
Dance Paul Rudd, Dance | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | adult swim
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M5 Ultra in hand. I got the peasant version: 30 cores / 96gb. Time to, uh, run those 4 Stan chains incrementally faster.
Come work with the Johns Hopkins Dept. of Biostatistics! We are currently hiring two open positions: Postdoctoral Fellow (Data Science and AI in Health & Medicine) and Assistant Professor (tenure track). Learn more online: publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...
Richard's point (here & in his lectures) about the causes of data is so important. I've thought about it on every project since. The ref'd paper is great both for its argument & for being a great example of statistical writing that is technical but not overwhelming for non-math-stats types (like me)
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 4w agoModeling non-response is an example I like to use when arguing that "descriptive" statistics also require causal inference. To describe the population, you have to model what causes the sample. Similar to occupancy modeling in ecology in many ways.
Astra, please summarize the openai situation in a 1 hour long summoningsalt video
Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139
I'm doing two workshops at the Yale School of Public Health use on AI use for statistical analysis, the first focused on statistical programming, the second focused specifically on data visualization. It is free and there is a Zoom link to register on this page.
DSDE Fall 2026 Events
Explore DSDE’s Fall 2026 program of 11 lectures, workshops, data sessions, and career conversations at the Yale School of Public Health.
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sorry my mom says you’re too dumb to hang out with
some things about today's internet are still good, KEXP being at the top of that list
Ladytron - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
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Few pieces of software delight me as thoroughly and frequently as ansible.
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
Nick Kapur@nickkapur.bsky.social · last yr.Most incredible about this is that IU-Bloomington has long been the no. 1 university in the world for teaching Asian languages and cultures, with many programs found nowhere else. They're slashing many of IU-B's most distinctive programs with zero thought or debate. They probably don't even know.
