Matthew Dekker (He/Him)

Consulting epidemiologist/data dude at large. COVID. Urban Health. Behavioral Health. Arsenal. San Diego native. Slowly PhDing @uwepidemiology

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@kyle_e_walker Do you have any recommendations for a local geocoder that could fit into a similar workflow? I work with health data which limits the tools I can use due to confidentiality reqs

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@pleadfiregravi1 @petergklein I thought for certain that was a misquote but its part of their goddamn mission statement

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

Any recommendations for speech recognition software that works well with Rstudio? Trying to figure out how to code after wrist surgery #rstats #rstudio

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@JosiahParry @EsriDevEvents That's great. We're using ArcGIS but it'd be great to incorporate that into our R workflow

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@JosiahParry @EsriDevEvents Will this support local geocoding? I work in health research and we can’t send patient data to a third party for gc’ing. Right now local options are limited in R

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@emmywilcher I'm still kind of obsessed with law, but the actual practice is such a cesspool. My dad was *so* depressed until he finally just shut down his practice

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@almquist_lars This has some strong Connor Roy eulogy for Mo energy to it

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@Arrianna_Planey I didn't understand how important this was until joining my current team which has several dedicated coordinators. They're absolute game-changers

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@Lachelle_Dawn I bet @uwepidemiology would love you have you/host something if feasible

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@AAllenSport He seemed to be playing as a proper 8 today

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@aquirkysoul @adhdjesse I was just coming to comment this. It's been a good exercise to catch myself starting emails with "sorry for the delay" and replacing with "thanks for your patience"

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@UrbanistOrg Is there more background on this somewhere? Their statement seems relatively benign (i.e. move station a block or so), though I suspect ulterior motives

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@StarBlazetweets @theADHDacademic I guess I was thinking more in terms of how existing text was organized. I def agree not to add more text. I usually view a syllabus as a reference doc that I'm not going to retain the first time through, so if context is up front, it's easier to refer back to

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@MattZeitlin Note there's still substantial heterogeneity across the country. e.g. Maryland has been at or below predicted deaths since early 2022 while Puerto Rico remains consistently above the predicted threshold.

The story of COVID continues to be that of differential effects

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@statsepi @BillHanage I got dropped from a consulting gig for suggesting that it was a better use of our time to spend 2-3 hours of a budgeted two weeks manually reviewing a bunch of text data one time than employing an "ai solution" 🤷‍♂️

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@EpiEllie @PWGTennant @EpidByDesign If there's no limit, any chance I could borrow an invite as well???

[Absurdistwords @absurdistwords]

Do not ever waste your energy trying to convince someone that a murder victim shouldn't have been murdered.

Anyone whose first instinct is to defend a murder is beyond the reach of your words.

You cannot argue someone to empathy or to an appreciation for human dignity

Move on.

[Matthew Dekker (He/Him) @dekkaaah]

@RachelLaing Has KUSI always been like this? I remember it growing up but never really paid attention to its substance