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Nick Forrester

@NickForr

Interested in data analytics and data visualisation to help decision making @nickforr@mastodon.social

 Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined June 2010
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To the world: what is the point of saying «never again» for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating…
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.@CMastication @hrbrmstr out of curiosity , how up to date do you keep R versions in your orgs? Do you have old versions running or always upgrade to latest patches?
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The 'Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps' book is available in print! colinfay.me/engineering-shin… #RStats #Shiny #golem
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Replying to @_ColinFay
@_ColinFay @opencpu hi, just wondering if either of you or followers have views on use of S4 in R (or can point to discussions re trade offs)? Had a bit of a search but nothing recent comes up. Thanks
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@StatGarrett wonder if you have a view on using s4 in a package? (I know that lubridate uses s4 but is that just legacy?)
Hello connections! We are #hiring! I have an amazing team here and we need to grow. If you're in #statisticalprogramming or #datascience and you're interested in furthering the use of #opensource (primarily with #rstats) within #pharma, reach out! #…lnkd.in/d4ZauxN
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#hiring #statisticalprogramming #datascience #opensource #rstats #pharma #recruiting #career #jobs...

Hello connections! We are #hiring! I have an amazing team here and we need to grow. If you're in #statisticalprogramming or #datascience and you're interested in furthering the use of #opensource...

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Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre28 Mar 2021
We want epidemiologists and data scientists for our open science revolution. We will take: - Grade 7 - Grade 8 - Clinical Academic - More senior people (email me). - NHS Analysts including by secondment Come. Come. Come. Learn. Share. Build the open future.
Ben Goldacre (@bengoldacre) profile pictureBen Goldacre
@bengoldacre11 Mar 2021
WE ARE HIRING Last round for a bit, so last chance. We want great EPIDEMIOLOGY or DATA SCIENCE people who buy into our vision of OPEN SCIENCE and want to use, build, and spread OpenSAFELY across the system. You'll be researching, collaborating, training my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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I'm dismayed we're still seeing this kind of evidence-free shaming a year into the pandemic. Individuals and small household groups walking around in parks, fully distanced is ... not how it spreads. There's absolutely no evidence for it, but the myth has somehow stuck around.
Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) profile pictureGarance Franke-Ruta
@thegarance24 Jan 2021
If this is what outdoor masking & distancing looks like in London I think I’ve figured out why their pandemic is out of control
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Interesting thread regardless of your views on independence
Tom Arthur (@ThomasCArthur) profile pictureTom Arthur
@ThomasCArthur24 Jan 2021
Thread 👇 1. Over the past couple of days I've been engaged in a prolonged series of exchanges of tweets with people who identify themselves as supporters of Scottish Independence. In what follows I share some preliminary reflections
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If you missed @jburnmurdoch talk @rstudio #rstudioglobal then should definitely try and catch tomorrow: global.rstudio.com/student/p…. Great talk.
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One not to miss: an Integrated Data Platform event for @ONS feat Dr Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre. Ben will talk about having an open approach to research (including code-sharing) + a Q&A. Register now and you'll get the event link closer to the date: bit.ly/IDPBenGoldacreEvent 🖥️

The OpenSAFELY Model

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Data Capability Talk will be a digital event.

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Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre10 Jan 2021
Lockdown has made me miserable. Covid has me terrified. Read this thread to see why: this is not flu. Stay home. Follow the rules. Be good to each other. Keep well.
John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) profile pictureJohn Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch7 Jan 2021
NEW: a common response to reports of hospitals struggling this winter is "it’s no different to a bad flu season!" I’ve tracked down historical data on flu ICU admissions, including winter 2017-18, a record high. Here’s how England’s Covid winter compares to a bad flu season 📹
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.@jasonleitch @JohnSwinney so schools are shut but costa and other places are all selling takeaways and queues of people milling about...
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David Zumbach@DavidZumbach31 Dec 2020
Don't trust choropleth maps. Evidence from Switzerland! 😉 #RStats   Shout-outs to @thomasp85 for {transformr}/{particles}, @hadleywickham et al. for {ggplot2}/{dplyr}, @edzerpebesma for {sf}, @politan_ch for {swissdd} and @hrbrmstr for {hrbrthemes}.   ➡️ github.com/zumbov2/votemapsw…
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In case you missed it...
David Grubbs (@crcgrubbsd) profile pictureDavid Grubbs@crcgrubbsd17 Nov 2020
In celebration of the publication of the new R Markdown Cookbook by @xieyihui; @chrisderv and @EmilyRiederer, I would like to give away two copies. The rules are simple: just retweet this message and follow me and @CRC_MathStats and I will choose a winner next week. Good luck!
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XKCD Comic
@xkcdComic17 Nov 2020
Ten Years xkcd.com/2386/ m.xkcd.com/2386/
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The charts are somewhat more useful than the headlines!
Vincent D. Warmerdam (@fishnets88) profile pictureVincent D. Warmerdam@fishnets8816 Nov 2020
Replying to @fishnets88
But looking at the charts in the article it doesn't look *amazingly convincing*.
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Adam Tooze
@adam_tooze16 Oct 2020
Looking at this scatter plot of Covid mortality and GDP loss across EU, rather than a trade off, you might be tempted to say that there were simply some countries that handled the crisis well and others that did not. ft.com/content/71c8a636-4d40…
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Here comes a thread about something I think could be important Tomorrow is #WorldMentalHealthDay. And if there was EVER a year where we need to be aware of everyone’s mental health, it’s this one. 2020 has been... well, you know /1
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Posit PBC@posit_pbc30 Sep 2020
RStudio v1.4 Preview Release, including a new visual markdown editor, is available now! blog.rstudio.com/2020/09/30/…
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