Matthew Dekker (He/Him)

@kyle_e_walker Do you have any recommendations for a local geocoder that could fit into a similar workflow? I work with health data which limits the tools I can use due to confidentiality reqs

Want to try this for yourselves? The #rstats code is here: gist.github.com/walkerke/611db…

I use #rstats to do #GIS every day because it is such a powerful connector of different tools and resources. Read this 🧵 for a step-by-step workflow of how to do GIS operations with this made-up table of customer locations in R:

@pleadfiregravi1 @petergklein I thought for certain that was a misquote but its part of their goddamn mission statement

Imagine The Atlantic running a piece titled "Sometimes You Just Have to Ignore the Epidemiologists" or "Sometimes You Just Have to Ignore the Climate Scientists" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Any recommendations for speech recognition software that works well with Rstudio? Trying to figure out how to code after wrist surgery #rstats #rstudio

@JosiahParry @EsriDevEvents That's great. We're using ArcGIS but it'd be great to incorporate that into our R workflow

@JosiahParry @EsriDevEvents Will this support local geocoding? I work in health research and we can’t send patient data to a third party for gc’ing. Right now local options are limited in R

@emmywilcher I'm still kind of obsessed with law, but the actual practice is such a cesspool. My dad was *so* depressed until he finally just shut down his practice

@emmywilcher My dad was a lawyer. I was very seriously looking at law school a while back. His response “absolutely not.”

@almquist_lars This has some strong Connor Roy eulogy for Mo energy to it

@Arrianna_Planey I didn't understand how important this was until joining my current team which has several dedicated coordinators. They're absolute game-changers

@Lachelle_Dawn I bet @uwepidemiology would love you have you/host something if feasible

Ok - probably coming to Seattle first week of April '24. Any of my West coast science peeps need a grand rounds speaker or anything? It's a long way to travel to give just 1 talk.

@AAllenSport He seemed to be playing as a proper 8 today

Not sure if anybody else has noticed this, but Havertz is weirdly effective at doing the dirty work. He quite often gets his foot in. That's something to hold onto even if his performances aren't as sexy as we'd like.

I think if Havertz ran around with a Kanu mask on, I might take to him a bit more. He's so bloody languid.

@aquirkysoul @adhdjesse I was just coming to comment this. It's been a good exercise to catch myself starting emails with "sorry for the delay" and replacing with "thanks for your patience"

ADHD is needing to apologize every time you (finally) reply to a text or email.

@UrbanistOrg Is there more background on this somewhere? Their statement seems relatively benign (i.e. move station a block or so), though I suspect ulterior motives

@StarBlazetweets @theADHDacademic I guess I was thinking more in terms of how existing text was organized. I def agree not to add more text. I usually view a syllabus as a reference doc that I'm not going to retain the first time through, so if context is up front, it's easier to refer back to

@dekkaaah @theADHDacademic Please no 😭 that's just more text I have to sort through that my brain will fail to prioritize and get overwhelmed. I need the most basic, simple info FIRST. Then "why you need this"!

Alright my #ADHD friends, what did I miss? When it comes to using a syllabus or other course documents, what makes them easier to navigate and what makes them a challenge? #AcademicTwitter, if you're tweaking your syllabi, you may want to take a look: theadhdacademic.weebly.com/teaching--adhd…

@MattZeitlin Note there's still substantial heterogeneity across the country. e.g. Maryland has been at or below predicted deaths since early 2022 while Puerto Rico remains consistently above the predicted threshold. The story of COVID continues to be that of differential effects

for nearly the whole year, excess death in the United States has been zero or negative

@statsepi @BillHanage I got dropped from a consulting gig for suggesting that it was a better use of our time to spend 2-3 hours of a budgeted two weeks manually reviewing a bunch of text data one time than employing an "ai solution" 🤷‍♂️

Your daily dose of AI BS. There are plenty of real things to boggle your mind (a few even involving AI). But this is just absurd theguardian.com/technology/202…

@EpiEllie @PWGTennant @EpidByDesign If there's no limit, any chance I could borrow an invite as well???

@PWGTennant @EpidByDesign I can send you one, Peter

Do not ever waste your energy trying to convince someone that a murder victim shouldn't have been murdered. Anyone whose first instinct is to defend a murder is beyond the reach of your words. You cannot argue someone to empathy or to an appreciation for human dignity Move on.

@RachelLaing Has KUSI always been like this? I remember it growing up but never really paid attention to its substance