Martine Wauben

Data Scientist @UKCivilService. Past @PembrokeOxford and @UtrechtUni Psychologist & Philosopher.

[Mario Ekkel @EkkelMario]

Maar dit is toch eigenlijk best een prima en leuk initiatief van @HEMA? 🥰

[Royal Statistical Society @RoyalStatSoc]

Could you or someone you know spearhead our mission to create a world in which statistics and data drive decision making?

We will soon begin the search for the next RSS president, and would love to hear from you about potential candidates 👉 https://t.co/K8DNuYLaX6

[Professor Chris Whitty @CMO_England]

(1/6) Cities bring particular challenges and opportunities for the health of those who live, work and study in them.

This CMO annual report explores what we can do to improve health in cities:

https://t.co/XlNO7tsJvG

[Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva]

OECD data, publications and analysis become freely accessible https://t.co/67bxUO1Hw3 press release from @OECD

OECD Data Explorer https://t.co/P67OyMKBmQ

The new policy applies to "most OECD written content published as of 1 July 2024".

#OA #openaccess #opendata

[Martine Wauben @MHWauben]

Extremely well deserved, a mammoth ongoing effort!

[Royal Statistical Society @RoyalStatSoc]

The winner of our Campion Award for Excellence in Official Statistics, supported by @UKStatsAuth and @CSWnews, is the @ONS Explore Subnational Statistics team for their work improving the availability of local data #RSSAwards
https://t.co/n6rgXkpG4a

[Matt Ashby @LessCrime]

Is it possible to reliably compare crime rates across the developed world’s largest cities? Actually, it’s harder than you might think, but for interesting reasons.

A thread for nerds 🤓…

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

cool paper. we also looked into the impact of dataset scale on hate-speech content and found that dataset scaling does not indeed "cancel out noise" but rather scaling results in dataset quality degradation https://t.co/9MghPxNsjC

[Professor Chris Whitty @CMO_England]

Influenza is rising from a low base and COVID is increasing. Antiviral 'flu medicines can now be used in primary care.

If you are eligible please get vaccinated. For healthcare workers, vaccination helps protect you, your patients and your colleagues.

https://t.co/Vx5IwDlwcZ

[Office for National Statistics (ONS) @ONS]

We've published new measures of the things people said matter to their well-being in our Measures of National Well-being dashboard, including

💷 Gender pay gap
🎓 Satisfaction with education system
💻 Digital exclusion
🩺 Physical health conditions

Find out more ⬇️

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

apparently a lot of cis women need to hear this but a world where our faces, bodies, hair, breasts, clothing and voice are constantly scrutinized as "not feminine enough" is infinitely more dangerous than a world where trans women might also be in the bathroom and need to pee

[📊 Ruben van Gaalen @rubenivangaalen]

'Heilige plaatsnamen' in Europa. https://t.co/paCCqHHm2i

[📊 Ruben van Gaalen @rubenivangaalen]

Anno 2022: Het grootste deel van de Nederlandse bevolking (16+) vindt dat vrouwen in deeltijd zouden moeten werken, ongeacht of ze jonge kinderen hebben of niet.
https://t.co/OqNXUa8Ngo

[Alasdair Rae @undertheraedar]

I normally find it quite straightforward to get the layers out of these webmaps, but not this one - anyway it's interesting to be able to see all the Levelling Up projects in one place

https://t.co/Mwi3cL7Lcy

[Martine Wauben @MHWauben]

@Caiwilsh https://t.co/C2kCKENNfQ
20min from the airport or a quick train from Piramide, a really nice chill day out of the hubbub

[Martine Wauben @MHWauben]

@SantoSecrets planning a honeymoon in Crete 17-22 April '23, the @DomesNoruz isn't open yet, do you have other hotel recommendations? We don't drive!

[Dr Nikita Kanani (she/her) @NikkiKF]

🎅🏾 What a year!

For our #health & care teams: thanks for all you’ve done, the lives you’ve helped save, your passion and dedication.

‘My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are.

To astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.’
Maya Angelou

[Martine Wauben @MHWauben]

@Soccermatics Will the lab also take PhD students in this area?

[Hetan Shah @HetanShah]

Really important and amazing job being recruited: National Statistician. You’d be in charge of @ONS and oversee UK official statistics which hold up a mirror to the soul of our nation. It needs a brilliant field so please share this one https://t.co/4ubHwnq6Gv