Right, the guy who recommends *avoiding* the only treatments that are proven to cut the death rate by half or more is the one we should listen to on opioids...
Today Mauro Martino visited our office in Milan to talk about how he applies Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning in the field Art and Design #dataviz#AI Check out his extraordinary work! @martino_design
"farmers are feeling the consequences of climate change in real time. Higher temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and more frequent & extreme weather events are already making it more difficult to grow food…" -@NFUDC https://t.co/59hUhcSdNB
#ERS_Strong#NIFA_Strong
Congratulations to @statsandstories for their 100th podcast! A great show exploring numbers and news reporting https://t.co/NCUzUPeTtj (btw @briancoxlive — you are a most wanted guest on the show!)
Perhaps our cultural certainty about sunscreen is unearned...This @undarkmag piece is one of the best, most nuanced stories I've seen about sunscreen. https://t.co/nKfGwWn6ky nice work @teresarcarr
Substantial increase in bacon consumption associated with very small increase in risk of death. But only if you read to the bottom of the article, otherwise the news is reversed. Via @HetanShah
Federal statistical agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics need proper funding to accurately measure and track our fast-paced economy. Access to quality and timely data ➡️ better #evidencebased decisions
#InvestinData#DataInfrastructure#BLSdata
We don't know what impact #AI and #robotics are having on the economy, we know nothing about the gig economy, we don't even know how many electrical engineers there are in the U.S. #statistics. #BLS#countonstats
https://t.co/PfYQxfk4Uf via @sensescienceusa
This is going to hurt rural America - and poor Americans. Dismantling impartial data gathering and analysis is like anti infrastructure spending. Derpcon 1.
Emissions from eastern China account for at least 40–60% of the global rise in trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11) emissions since 2013, according to a Nature study. This rise is contrary to the Montreal Protocol agreement to phase out CFC production and use. https://t.co/udMZJaZMHZ
@NIHRresearch Great progress from @NIRHresearch. It means that the largest national funder of clinical research in Europe will now look at whether a researcher has registered & reported past trials when deciding whether to grant new funds. Every funder should follow this lead.
#AllTrials
We asked user experience expert @ultan to look at the #bls website—the richest and most important source of economic data about the U.S. His analysis explains why we need to design for democracy #countonstats https://t.co/htZYcJlzrS
We've just launched our STATS for US project. It takes a critical look at the vital role of government statistics—how to access, understand, and use them. Why they need to be better designed and funded.
https://t.co/JwQEmUjhMt
A French statistician declared that the US was an unprecedented phenomenon: a people who instituted the statistics on the very day when they founded their govt, & who regulated the census of inhabitants, their civil & political rights, & the destinies... https://t.co/VaroLzcr9D
Very excited for Sense's @rebegol to be giving the @KlugeCtr "Dinner and Democracy" seminar this year to congressional staffers! And stay tuned, we'll be launching a "Data for Democracy" project next week!