Branson Fox

Currently: Data Engineer @ NCX
Formerly: Infectious Diseases @ WUSTL
Interests: Statistics, Economics, GIS, Comp Sci

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

Rasterized building footprints as population "hillshade" in descriptive maps.

[Ingrid Eshun-Wilson @Ingrideshun]

Our discrete choice survey shows that enforcing vaccination could cause some who are hesitant to double down on vaccine resistance. https://t.co/aIkbJ4QaL6
#VaccineHesitancy #BehavioralScience @elvingeng @aalokemody @1stluvd

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

There are 4,646,752 possible solutions to this permutation of 16 tetrominoes in this 8x8 lattice.

A random sample of 1000:

[Omar Shehata @Omar4ur]

I spent some time polishing up my "Live good morning & good night tweets" @CesiumJS map so you could go back & forwards in time and let it run overnight - here is a timelapse of all 16,000 tweets that had the words "good morning/good night" in any language since last night.

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

Cron jobs that send a push notification if they fail:
Great idea!

...at 3 AM:
Bad idea.

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

Need. More. Compute.

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

Welp, Kernel 4.19.128 apparently breaks network connectivity in WSL2 as well.

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

- This is slow, I should use CUDA
- Need to update WSL2 Kernel
- Need to Opt-In for Insider Build
- Need to Login to Microsoft Account
- Need PIN to Login, Forgot it
- Need to Login to Reset Pin (Um..)
- Time to Hack the Registry
- Logged In and Updating Windows
An hour passes...

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

CUDA integration with the Windows Subsystem for Linux is so promising, but just isn't there yet.

Bleeding edge tech, not something to rely on.

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

7 Years later, R still doesn't have a data.frame method for is.nan

#Rstats

https://t.co/LE5e2OqgOB

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

Twitter killed Vine.
The US Gov is 9 days away from killing TikTok.
Zuckerberg's cheap rip-off sucks.

So who's up next?

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

Research often makes me anxious, but I always remember the quote one of my first PI’s had in her lab:

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

And I take comfort in that.

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

Why the United States is having a coronavirus data crisis https://t.co/y2VGNWTjAM

[Branson Fox @Branson_Fox]

When you mess up a data viz, but the artifact is art: