#Graph

Dr. Winder Gill

winder_gill

An important thread here on the importance of #vaccination if you'll bear with me. This is a great infographic by @WHO that nicely exemplifies #vaccine safety. They use the example

Elaine Doyle

laineydoyle

Let's talk about statistics.Something struck me from @FergalBowers (excellent) coverage of today's covid numbers in Ireland: the breakdown is super weird. 190 cases, of which 75 are close contacts of

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) A lot of people see cases rising while deaths are going down in the US. Somebody who did not like my tweet earlier about the record cases today just

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

I was honored to get name-checked in this thread by a guy named Alex Berenson, a leader of the COVID Truth Movement, oddly a foreign Times reporter. So let's take

Marc Owen Jones

marcowenjones

[Thread] 1/ In the UK aggressive online attacks on the press and journalists continue following the #DominicCummings scandal. The "scum media" hashtag seems to be escalating. This thread is an

🌈Dr. Frizzle

Swilua

My students have been collecting bad COVID-19 graphs and I love them so far so I am going to post them in this thread graphs like this are why scientists

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

I introduce the "Scary Virus Paradox":"After clearing a threshold, the less deadly a virus is, the more it will kill." (Deadliness here defined as R0 * IFR)(log-log graph)This is obviously

Dave Keating

DaveKeating

What a bizarrely distorted graph.It leaves off Denmark, the EU country that has in 2 weeks vaccinated almost as much as UK in 5 weeks.It conveniently sets threshold for any

Wolfie Christl

WolfieChristl

Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365.A new feature to calculate 'productivity

Martin Jacques

martjacques

1/5 The West is facing a double-whammy in its relationship with China. Its failure to come to terms with Covid-19 leaves countries like the US and the UK in a

Richard Jean So

RichardJeanSo

Hi friends, my new book REDLINING CULTURE dropped today @ColumbiaUP. The good folks at @lithub published an excerpt and I'm grateful to @nytopinion for letting me write about it last

Zach Goldberg

ZachG932

1/n Spent some time on LexisNexis over the weekend. Depending on your political orientation, what follows will either disturb or encourage you. But regardless of political orientation, I'm sure we

Nicole

nixseah

Incredibly thorough and fascinating pod with @a16z 16 min episode with @smc90 & @eugenewei on:Tiktok's unique qualities, "seeing like an algorithm", and applying the lessons we learn from TikTok to

Tinashe M

baba_nyenyedzi

1/Zimbabwe Economy 2021 Whither?Economists identify threats & opportunities. They’re neither optimist nor pessimists. Their job doesn’t require them to be. Threats & opportunities often become clear when data, patterns &

joe francis

joefrancis505

I'd never seen a graph make a room full of economic historians collectively gasp before, but these fellows managed it when they presented this paper at Boston in 2018. Looking

Erin Tolley

e_tolley

Stark graph. There’s a tendency toward individual explanations (e.g. “Public servants in Ottawa follow rules! South Asians in Brampton like to gather!”) Too many prescriptions forget the structural differences eg.

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