Dave Evans

@simonw This is much less disruptive than turning warnings into errors (which some people do), but it still stops you missing anything.

@simonw Your recent post on Python deprecation warnings reminded me of a useful practice we've developed at work: adding a tiny pytest snippet which fails CI on warnings, and then documenting the ones we silence: #L7-L14" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/bennettoxford/… #L91-L96" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/opensafely-cor…

We're hiring! I cannot overstate the satisfaction of working on stuff that matters (improving healthcare, scientific openness, protecting patient privacy) with brilliant, lovely people in a high-autonomy environment. Immediately stop what you're doing and come and work with us.

@jessRmorley @pearsekeane @adam_mahdi @DECYale @Floridi Late to this Jess, but huge congratulations! That's great news.

This is the thing I've been working on for what feels approximately like forever, but is finally being used for real in the wild. The hardest and most fun code I've ever written:

@teagermylk A colleague has just pointed out that it looks like you get your data direct from the BSA, in which case sorry to have bothered you! We will search for our errant scraper elsewhere ...

@teagermylk Hey there, just wondered if you'd seen this issue and could confirm either way if this was you? github.com/tmylk/yearly_p… If so, we can send you an entire copy of our database more easily than you can scrape it :)

Meanwhile in the @EBMDataLab slack channel.

@franciscojarceo Hi Francisco, I'm afraid not as I haven't used Google's CDN before

Hi @_EvansD! Do you know of any good documentation on implementing WhiteNoise on Google's CDN?

@NDevito1 @bengoldacre But we're standing SO CLOSE together!

@bengoldacre A picture people will look back at with awe at the collected talent in one place at one time!

Look at our wonderful, glorious people. This lot built ebmdatalab.net openprescribing.net opensafely.org trialstracker.net and more. One day, we will sit in a safe 3m x 3m matrix on Port Meadow and drink to the power of data. One day!

Among the many lessons here is the extraordinary power of small, mixed teams: developers, clinicians, academics (or all 3 in 1 like @dr_c_morton!) working closely together and learning from one another. There's no way this could have been achieved on these timescales otherwise.

@dr_c_morton @inglesp @sebbacon Oh right back at you! The world desperately needs more programmer GPs

This is, simultaneously, the largest COVID study the world has ever produced and (probably) the smallest COVID study our team will ever produce. From pipe dream to results tables in 5 weeks. A mad, mad ride and an unbelievable privilege to be part of. Lots more to come.

@themadwort Thanks! And thanks for pointing me in the direction of the Datalab in the first place! (Also remind me to tell you about SQL Server's very special understanding of ISO dates at some point - you'll enjoy)

@_EvansD Wow, amazing work!!

I am (truly) honoured that privacy advocates @medConfidential are pleased with our work. Their legitimate concerns helped inform our new model for secure analytics. I'll explain more about how we built the platform on thread in a moment.

Behold my glorious, magnificent, heroic team. In here you see openprescribing.net, openpathology.net, trialstracker.net, retractobot, teaching, DataLab Policy Insights (coming next year) and more. Our cause is just and shall prevail! #blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ebmdatalab.net/#blog

@Pundamentalism Chelsea Clinton and Gloria Gaynor are out for a drive in Chelsea's favourite mid-90s South Korean hatchback when they're spotted by one of her former boyfriends. Naturally surprised by this turn of events, he exclaims ... "Gloria! In my ex, Chelsea's, Daewoo!"

BING BONG important NEW PAPER from my @EBMDataLab and @openprescribing group at Oxford, with immediate narrow safety implications, and then wide strategic implications for digital health research. We have found a breach of safety guidance that is more prevalent in one EHR..

@szotten @octopus_energy We just had smart meters fitted and so the first thing I wanted to do was start downloading my own data. (Aside: there are now four developers in this thread, all called David)

@_EvansD @octopus_energy Curious what you are doing with their api

Raucous applause, please, for @octopus_energy and their fully documented API, complete with example CURL requests pre-populated with my API key: developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/ Hard to imagine the Big Six doing this.

@octopus_energy Also, a minuscule bug report: my meter serial number has a space in it which the example CURL command doesn't encode correctly. (@seddonym @codeinthehole and anyone else I know who works there.)