"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Real signals or artificial stereotypes?

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

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Bayesian Data Analysis Primers/Tutorials I gathered these primers for learning bayesian data analysis, mainly for myself but I hope they are helpful to you too. If you know of similar articles, do share them in the comments. #bayesiananalysis #datascience #machinelearning #rstats #python

#epinowcast 0.4.0 is out! This release has been a long time coming and contains work from many contributors. It includdes new features, better better and clearer documentation. package.epinowcast.org/news/index.h...

Changelog

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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

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A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

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My go-to resource for scientific writing The Writing Tips Series by the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology is hands down one of the best guides for academic writing: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... (1/3) #AcademicWriting #Research #PhDLife #ScientificWriting #Masters #PhD #AcademicChatter

A developer's love language.

Jasmine Damani@webdevour.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Anyone else compulsively try to read every page of docs before using a library? It's a huge waste of time but I can't stop! 😂

Statistics & Epidemiology Made Simple Without Jargon - My Go-To Resources #statistics #epidemiology #biostatistics #dataanalytics #datascience

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The other major addition in this release is lovely new stan docs thanks to @jamesazam.bsky.social primarycensored.epinowcast.org/stan/group__...

Back from Kenya, where I had the privilege of co-leading an Outbreak Data Science workshop with @jamesazam.bsky.social at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust. I'm proud to see open, reproducible tools like #EpiverseTRACE @epiverse-trace.bsky.social making a difference.

Just been looking at deepwiki as a way of summarising packages/presenting more interactive documentation via chatting to an LLM. On the face of it seems really useful (though as normal small errors here an there) Thanks @jamesazam.bsky.social for the headsup!

Do you like situational awareness of infectious diseases (who doesn't). Do you like thinking about modelling with this aim in mind? Do you feel like its a bit of a niche and hard to find people to talk to about it? We have a forum: community.epinowcast.org for you.

Epinowcast

A community to discuss epinowcast and real-time infectious disease analysis more generally

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2025 here we come! iddconf.org IDDconf will be September 2-4 2025 in Ambleside. Ticket info coming soon.

IDDconf 2025

A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.

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Just got asked about my review processes. I don't do that much as I am not that into the whole racket especially not whilst on a short-term contract but this is my kind of approach...

📦 R Package of the Week: {linelist} Turn data frames into #linelist objects by: ✅ Tagging key epidemiological variables (so you're not tied to column names) ✅ Validation to ensure tagged variables are of the correct type ✅ Safeguard against accidental loss of tagged variables during wrangling 1/3

Interested in peer reviewing or looking to improve your skills? Peer review is an important part of the research process, but many people don’t receive much guidance on how to do it well. Fortunately, there are several helpful resources available: #research #peerreview #academicwriting #phdchat

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Flags that having the ability to specify functions as arguments in stan would be really quite amazing as not having this (or a class system) makes the code a lot more convoluted than the R equiv See here for the R: github.com/epinowcast/p...

I really enjoyed doing this (with feedback from @seabbs.bsky.social and the amazing stan forum). I'm now porting over learned wisdom to EpiNow2, epinowcast, EpiSewer, and other stan-heavy R packages. Here's a short clip showing the before and after #mcstan #stan #rpackage

Sam Abbott@seabbs.bsky.social · last yr.

More lovely work on html stan docs from @jamesazam.bsky.social primarycensored.epinowcast.org/stan/group__... I love the function maps from doxygen. They would be great to have in roxygen.

Last week we published our first annual report on infectious disease trends. 📊 The report brings together all the key data from 2023 to early 2025 and outlines the steps our organisation is taking to tackle these threats. Read the full report 🔗🔽 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Here's a summary of our training materials.

Epiverse TRACE@epiverse-trace.bsky.social · last yr.

Building #PublicHealth data science capacity is key! At #EpiverseTRACE, we combine open-source tools #rstats with hands-on #training to equip the next generation of public health professionals and data scientists with cutting-edge analytical skills. We host Spanish and English #tutorials! 🧵(1/4)

In case you were wondering how to bookmark posts on bluesky, checkout this Chrome extension. hypefury.com/bluesky/how-...

How to Bookmark Bluesky Posts - Hypefury

Bluesky does not have an official way of bookmarking posts. In this article, you will learn how you can Bookmark Bluesky posts.

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When an epidemic hits, how long does it take to get going with common epidemic analysis tasks? A couple of weeks ago, we asked representatives from over a dozen UK organisations and universities who work actively on epidemic analysis and modelling how long the below tasks would take them.... 1/

Sam Abbott@seabbs.bsky.social · last yr.

"An application of nowcasting methods: Cases of norovirus during the winter 2023/2024 in England | PLOS Computational Biology" from a team at UKHSA community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting...

Folks, if you use substantial amounts of people's code (either as a package or just copy and paste) please cite them. Mentioning it in your SI or URL in your code repo doesn't really help as its so hard to discover and summarise for funders etc. This is quite spread wide spread for what I see.

@jamesazam.bsky.social and @sbfnk.bsky.social are doing a lot of EpiNow2 dev at the moment. As part of this hey have started using PRs to hash out design docs before implementation and I'm enjoying it as a process vs just using issues or having calls. Example: github.com/epiforecasts...

Do check this out and let us know how we can improve it. Is there any sections you found difficult to navigate? We're iterating on this across our other packages that use stan as the backend, i.e., epinowcast, primarycensored, EpiSewer, epidist, etc. #stan

Sam Abbott@seabbs.bsky.social · last yr.

I am obsessed with this nicely rendered doxygen for the Stan code in EpiNow2 that @jamesazam.bsky.social just added. epiforecasts.io/EpiNow2/stan/

One of the reasons it was possible to generate estimates so quickly was thanks to new R tools like: epiverse-trace.github.io/epichains/ primarycensored.epinowcast.org epiverse-trace.github.io/epiparameter/

Our recent pre-preprint rapid review of epidemiological parameters for H5N1 influenza in humans, and implications for potential outbreak clusters: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Converting from #markdown -> #Word, pdf, Powerpoint is easy with tools like #pandoc but the reverse conversion is not easy. Microsoft has released MarkItDown to convert documents like Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc to markdown. Try it out. What do you think? github.com/microsoft/ma...

GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown

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#zotero is not as "free" as I thought.

Come join the data science team at Epicentre-MSF in Paris! We're looking for someone with skills in #rstats and epidemiology to work on a vaccine trial and support MSF's outbreak response analytics. Apply below. smrtr.io/nWv_g

Data Scientist (M/F), FTC 12 months, based in Paris (France)

Company Description: Epicentre is a research organization created by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 1986. Epicentre conducts field epidemiology, training and research activities for MSF interventio...

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