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Pleased to share that Gnssmapper, a python package for building 3D maps from gnss data, is available on pypi. This implements some of the methods developed by @AnahidBasiri and team at @UofGlasgow. Still a work in progress but hoping to add to it substantially in near future.

See the Earth from above - done by pupils with little budget but lots of dissertation. linkedin.com/posts/martin-w…

Grading algorithm not designed to deal with discrete data. non-zero probability (even 0.1%) of someone getting a U means someone in a class of 15 gets it, even if a higher grade is far more likely. We should have some sort of expert group that can help with that.

With hindsight, not a great outcome.

@alexgallagher2 @twarundel @leonardocarella @ickoonite The sun writes better headlines

@alexjellicoe @dominijk Absent for a £5 100 litre bag of soil from what I’ve seen. I’m hoping b&q click and collect will have some but their website keeps crashing

@lines_terry @dominijk Order online?

BBC News - Coronavirus: Will food supply fears see a rise in home-grown veg? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

@JolyonMaugham @olihutt It’s not asking for a bailout but support for their workers, which would be practically necessary whatever their employment status. Uber itself is well able to ride out the crisis precisely because they exploit their drivers.

@pbreit @amir That assumes you’ve been keeping your powder dry, not spaffing it up the wall and now forced to fire-sell your best assets.

@amir Isn't this the best time? Good deals to be had?

Weird time to be doing this. thein.fo/cdc7d541459939…

@issiromem Says more about meetings than it does about cities imho

Just heard of law firm having first mtg of 68 partners on Zoom Was so much better than in-person mtgs they decided to continue w/Zoom even after normalcy returns The longer the lockdown persists, the more work habits will change, and the more cities could fundamentally change

@geofftech I’d be hopeful that help is on the way, it’s just a bit more involved than dealing with employees.

@jeremyphoward But the panel regression also has a low r squared (mid 20s) so I don’t think you can say there would be a clearer relationship. I haven’t read the paper and I’m not saying anything about it, just that you seem to be implying on correlation based on p-values

So why does the original chart not show a clear relationship? It's because the chart is the *univariate* relationship - i.e. it doesn't show the relationship *after* controlling for confounding factors. But the panel regression *does* control for them.

Folks are sharing this chart, from the paper "High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19", & are saying that the claims of the paper are rubbish, because this isn't showing a strong correlation. They're wrong. I'll explain 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@amir @dkhos Government should probably tap that to part cover the welfare costs of the Uber drivers. It’s amazing how a little contractual and financial engineering can make people think they are geniuses

Per @dkhos, $Uber modeled that if its ride business declined 80% (year over year) for the rest of the year, as a worst case scenario, Uber will still have $4B in cash on Dec. 31. Reason: about 2/3 of its costs, including insurance, don't happen when trips don't happen.

@mattnkm Congrats

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@jburnmurdoch Your visualisations are worth an ft subscription by themselves

NEW: here’s today’s update on the coronavirus case trajectory tracker • Most European countries still on ~33% increase line • US & Spain above, UK & Belgium below • Korea seems to have cases back under control Keep up-to-date with live version here: ft.com/content/a26fbf…

Tired: stockpiling face masks. Wired: washing your hands. Inspired: getting infected now to ensure availability of a hospital bed and a summer with immunity.

@jburnmurdoch It would beinteresting to compare pure athletes as well (track and field, swimming, etc.) gives a better representative of the nuances than a common man

NEW: how do footballers compare to the stars of US sports in terms of stature? NFL and NBA players dwarf most footballers, but the average elite footballer looks much more like the world's average man, perhaps explaining the global popularity of the game ft.com/content/d61f94…

@drorpoleg Why wouldn’t Amazon slash their asking price? nobody else will take leading risk on a billion dollar building

Best deal WeWork ever made? "Amazon is in talks to acquire Midtown’s Lord & Taylor building from WeWork for as much as $1 billion" buff.ly/2TaH1o3

@jburnmurdoch @michael_merrick It’s a wider-ranging problem addressed in urban studies literature, as smart cities/knowledge economy critiques. government aims to attract mobile knowledge workers through reinventing cities on their behalf, requiring low status service workers.

People wonder why rifts have opened up in British society/politics in recent years, the education divide and geographical inequality being two. In a fantastic piece, @michael_merrick argues that much of this is caused by the expansion of higher education michaelmerrick.me/2019/03/04/lov…