Vivian Peng

Artist, activist, data scientist.

[Vivian Peng @create_self]

Dancing with Grandpa 3! Been sitting on this footage for 1.5 years. Finally found the inspiration to piece it together <3 https://t.co/DeUPZiR3yk #InternationalDanceDay #ShortFilm

[Vivian Peng @create_self]

Saving the access campaign is not just about saving jobs for those who work there. It’s about saving millions and millions of lives with access to affordable medicine. Please help me get the word out by liking, sharing, and commenting !

#accesstomedicines

[Vivian Peng @create_self]

Save the Access Campaign - Part 1

I loved working for @doctorswithoutborders bc they are always on the right side of history.

#rifghtsideofhistory #accesscampaign #msf #patients #activism #doctorswithoutborders

[Vivian Peng @create_self]

Save the Access Campaign - Part 2

Right now, they may be on the wrong side w/ their decision to shut down the Access Campaign — a campaign started from the $ awarded to MSF for winning the Nobel peace prize. A campaign dedicated to making access to medicines a right for EVERYONE

[The Rockefeller Foundation @RockefellerFdn]

22% of Asian Americans face food insecurity, according to our latest survey. For this #AANHPI Month, we are shining light on the lived realities for AAPIs. Read about the findings here: https://t.co/hSuCoyqwEe

[Vivian Peng @create_self]

I didn't realize until recently that my family was food insecure at some points during my childhood. This reality is true for 22% of the AANHPI population, according to our latest survey. Read more about it here: https://t.co/DNDoF45lSB… #AANHPIHeritageMonth

[Caitlin Hudon @beeonaposy]

We're so happy to share that this year's Data Mishaps Night keynote speaker is @hadleywickham!

Join us for a cathartic virtual night of data mistake stories with a focus on learning (the hard way) and building community. Registration and speaker app: https://t.co/goxcKgG9hB

[Vivian Peng @create_self]

My summer #datascience associate at the @RockefellerFdn published her first blog on @TDataScience ! Here Aminata walks through how to use zero shot classification for sentiment analysis. A brilliant life hack! #ai #nlp #huggingface

https://t.co/RTyEgwbc9w

So proud 👏👏👏

[Steven Bernard @sdbernard]

NEW: Animated map showing likely building damage in Gaza since the start of the war. In northern Gaza up to 60% of buildings have been damaged
Huge thanks as always to @coreymaps and @JamonVDH for their superb data
https://t.co/rY1uHif0gd
#dataviz

[The Data Science & AI Conference @TheDataConf]

Some great talks this early afternoon from @Ben_G_Braun, @US_FDA, @create_self & David C!

#rstatsgov | #rstats

[Myanmar Witness @MyanmarWitness]

🔥 Lel Beit (Taung Su) village
☑️ Pauk, Magway
☑️ 21.466182, 94.611459
☑️ 30 Dec 2022

In the series #MWBurntVillages, Myanmar Witness features satellite imagery that reveals fire destruction in multiple villages throughout the last few years.

You can use the coordinates on Google Earth Pro to see historical imagery of the village before it was burnt, and the updated satellite imagery showing the after-effects.

For more details, visit the Myanmar Witness Fire Map https://t.co/cOdGrDnjFr.

More on this series: #MWBurntVillages
More from MW: #MWFires
More on Myanmar: #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

[Observable @observablehq]

💡Discover core concepts and build interactive charts with our 4-part course series on Observable Plot with @allison_horst.

📊From scatterplots to tooltips, we've got you covered.

🎟️ Join us and register here for free: https://t.co/0CpIw3wKL5

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Looking to understand or explore your JSON data?

Just paste it or upload your file to visualize it as a graph at https://t.co/n3VlemmLRY! 🤩

Kudos to @aykutsarach for creating this gem in #OpenSource!

[R Markdown @rmarkdown]

How to write a custom function to generate multiple plots in R by @create_self in @TDataScience https://t.co/JOj57aVx2I #rstats

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question:

“What makes a good story?”

They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard:

“If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got something pretty boring.

What should happen between every beat you’ve written down is the words ‘therefore’ or ‘but.’”

They go on to say, “That gives you the causation between each beat, and that makes a story.”

Point 1:

There’s an idea in storytelling called ‘Promise, Progress, Payoff.’

Essentially, a story is a neverending cycle of promises that are paid off over the span of the story.

It’s a cycle of expectation and resolution. Cause and effect. Conflict and progress.

Point 2:

A story isn’t a bunch of random events thrown together.

A story is a series of but / because / therefore moments.

A famous example:

• Harry discovers he's a wizard. Because of this, he goes to learn magic at Hogwarts.
• But then he learns Voldemort wants to kill him and rule the world.
• Therefore, he must find a way to defeat him.

Point 3:

‘And’ implies a simple continuation.

‘But / Therefore’ give prior events meaning through causation.

‘But’ implies conflict. ‘Therefore’ implies progress.

I’m reminded of a Hemingway quote:

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

Great writing is intentional. It doesn’t wander. It builds upon itself.

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I hope you enjoyed that! If so, follow @nathanbaugh27. I study the best storytellers ever and share what I learn.

[Vivian Peng @create_self]

wow, didn't know this!

[Allison Horst @allison_horst]

💚 purrr::pluck() is great for grabbing values from nested data structures in R. https://t.co/Ok0mWcziq4

[Vivian Peng @create_self]

Interesting!

[Kene David Nwosu @kendavidn]

👋 Hello #Rstats community!

📕 To accompany our youtube course (https://t.co/84p3IZRQXB), we recently released this guidebook on modern R for data analysis.

🏫 Built by @theGRAPHnetwork team at the University of Geneva, with funding from the @WHO.

🧵 (1/5) 👇

[Michelle MiJung Kim (she/her) @mjmichellekim]

During this maddening time, it is also important to note that the strategic use of Asian Americans as a wedge is working as intended.

[Mario Schlosser @mariots]

We @OscarHealth are publishing our use cases, prototypes, ideas & research notes on using LLMs in healthcare. AI research moves too fast for companies to do this work behind closed doors, so we’re sharing ours for others to read & comment: https://t.co/uQwuJAW9cT. 1/

[Mohamed Ait Abdelmalik 𝕏 | ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⵎⴰⴷ ⴰⵢⵜ ⵄⴱⴷⵍⵎⴰⵍⵉⴽ @MoAitAbdelmalik]

Survival analysis is a statistical technique used to analyze time-to-event data, such as the time until death or the time until the failure of a machine. 
https://t.co/5UGNkYA6DK…

#DataScience #RStats #DataAnalytics #programming #dataviz

[Mohamed Ait Abdelmalik 𝕏 | ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⵎⴰⴷ ⴰⵢⵜ ⵄⴱⴷⵍⵎⴰⵍⵉⴽ @MoAitAbdelmalik]

Data team at @BBCNews developed an #rstats package and an R cookbook to make the process of creating publication-ready graphics in-house style using R’s #ggplot2 library
https://t.co/YoFAl6JSVm #dataviz #datajournalism #ddj