Innocenter Amima

◇ PhD candidate @AucklandUni | #BayesianNetworks | #DimensionReduction #WineScience #Rstats
◇ Co-founder @HKW_initiative

[Innocenter Amima @am_innocenter]

@fatuhaire12 @MathsSoton @rebeccahoyle @drccurrie Congratulations, @fatuhaire12, on your incredibly successful Viva! Your hard work, dedication, and perseverance have led you to this remarkable milestone!

[Young African Statisticians Association (YASA) @AfricanYas]

The African Statistics Day (ASD) was adopted in May 1990 & is celebrated on November 18 to increase public awareness about the importance of statistics in all aspects of social & economic life of our countries and the continent #ASD2022 #AfricaStatisticsDay2022 #YASAssociation

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Twenty years ago, a ship named the Joola capsized off the coast of the Gambia as it sailed from the south to the north of Senegal.

Nearly 1,900 lives were lost in the disaster, more than on the Titanic, but few outside Senegal know about this tragedy.

#THREAD 1/ | #Joola

[Eliud Kipchoge - EGH🇰🇪 @EliudKipchoge]

Limits are there to be broken. By you and me together.
I can say that I am beyond happy today that the official world record is once again faster. Thank you to all the runners in the world that inspire me every day to push myself.

[Mark Tenenholtz @marktenenholtz]

I've shared tons of free/inexpensive material for learning data science and ML (and not just the basics).

Combined, their value is easily greater than a $100k+ data science degree.

Here are some of my favorites:

[Innocenter Amima @am_innocenter]

@WuodSonga @daddyhope It's not just about the turnout numbers or external factors. It's nuanced, and people voted not for a tribe but for the candidates ideologies.

[Innocenter Amima @am_innocenter]

Reflections on #KenyanElection2022 by @mutigam where he unpacks the recent results, Raila's failed attempt and contribution to our judiciary and the future of Kenya under Ruto's presidency. #KenyaElections #KenyansDecides2022 #RutoThefifth #Ruto

[Murithi Mutiga @mutigam]

In this ⁦@CrisisGroup⁩ podcast I tell ⁦@alanboswell⁩ that despite the typically drawn out conclusion, Kenya’s closely fought election will help consolidate its democracy and holds lessons for the region https://t.co/ZmJSszJHCy

[Murithi Mutiga @mutigam]

Ruto wins. The capacity of Kenyan institutions has outpaced the political culture. A shame that his opponent and backers within the state could not concede.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Historians will come back to this handshake.

It did 2 things, it destroyed a portion of Raila Odinga’s support base, and associated him with Uhuru Kenyatta’s political commissions and omissions.

It however brought peace to Kenya deescalating the political tension that existed.

[David Warton @ecostats]

Over the last 5 years I've been writing a book, and the e-book version is out now!
https://t.co/zv9y22wCDp
Complete with code boxes, maths boxes, ninjas and the odd Australianism which I hope won't get lost in translation.
Solutions and supporting code in ecostats package on CRAN

[Innocenter Amima @am_innocenter]

The un-Kenyan election | Elections | Al Jazeera https://t.co/9UjIVth74Z via @AJEnglish

[Martin White (moving to BlueSky...) 💙🇪🇺🇺🇦 @martinwhite33]

If you haven't already listened to this episode of the @BBCFoodProg you really should. Gets to the heart of unhealthy diets and why reformulation is not the ultimate answer. Oh, and as ever, @jeanmadams has the last word... 😉 @mandala_food @MRC_Epid

https://t.co/b3KBBTvRKD

[Carol Radull @CarolRadull]

Africa's fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala has won Kenya's first #CommonwealthGames men's 100M gold since 1962.
Omanyala crossed the finish line in 10:02.

What a moment for Kenya!

What a moment for Omanyala!

Congratulations Omanyala.
#OriginSport

[Innocenter Amima @am_innocenter]

An exciting initiative targeting PhD students or graduates from Africa under the age of 32, especially women interested in a career in international development, African government, think tanks & academia #STEM #BlackInData #BlackInSTEM #phdafrica #phdlife https://t.co/zYRVVDCP8z

[NeSI @NeSI_NZ]

📢 Interested to teach Carpentries Workshops in New Zealand?
Submit a brief Expression of Interest to join the upcoming NZ Carpentries Instructor Training workshop in late October.
Applications open until 31 August 2022: https://t.co/pICGm3gOfp

[Troy Mullins @TroyCMullins]

Is this allowed? Can you elbow in distance events? Gidey pushed Obiri into lane 3. @WorldAthletics #WorldAthleticsChampionships

[KIPCHUMBA MURKOMEN, E.G.H @kipmurkomen]

Well done Hellen Obiri (Silver) and Margaret Kipkemoi (Bronze) in 10,000M #WorldAthleticsChampionships #Oregon2022. That was a very tactical race. Thank you for making us proud.

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

Try reading some of the graphical causal inference literature and I bet your enthusiasm will increase 10 fold. E.g., https://t.co/PehuRiIg7u, https://t.co/JnPnqezBsG
Specifically, introducing matching and propensity score w/o backdoor admissibility is not advisable. #datascience

[Ben Siranosian @BenSiranosian]

For current grad students who want to work in industry, I'm a big advocate for what I like to call "the MVP."

The Minimum Viable PhD!

Get it done, and keep moving. You'll learn more in the next few months in industry than you did in the last year of grad school.