Dr Nicci Potts

Data for Development at FCDO by way of data science by way of moon rocks.

[Dr Nicci Potts @nicci_potts]

My blog is now live 🎉

I've created this to share some R things I find interesting or potentially useful (probably mostly be about using social data in R).

Only 1 post up so far but it's been fun learning new skills to get to this point!

#RStats

https://t.co/hiDoNOeH5v

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📢Data Utilization is at the Heart of Governance: Conducting a Census of Somalia

Excellent write-up of our @DataSciCampus work by @planetlabs

For those with interest(s) in #MachineLearning, #DeepLearning, #SatelliteImagery, #Census, #Somalia

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Horrible phrases:

Let’s touch base in the new year
Let’s circle back in the new year
Let’s park this until the new year

A more honest phrase:

Look it’s been a long 2023 and I’m really very tired. I’m sure we both don’t particularly want to start any new work before Christmas. If you absolutely have to, send me an email around 12th January (please god don’t email me on the 2nd January, I won’t warm to that at all) and we’ll perhaps chat about it then.

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"Not every problem is a machine learning problem"

Great quote in @DataSciCampus #DSCShowcase careers session

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@BjnNowak I'm working on something in RMarkdown wishing I'd had the time to do it Quarto but I was in a rush so jumped to the familiar 😅

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I'm in awe of some of the beautiful maps people have created for #30DayMapChallenge . I really wish I time to get involved!

However I did put together a blog post on the basic need-to-knows for anyone new to #geospatial data

#GIS #DataScience

https://t.co/ctVIo0zjJX

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@BjnNowak I have been doing all my raster work in python recently as it's part of a ML workflow but was just saying yesterday for simple plotting need to move to R as too many crs issues w/ {folium} so this is timely & helpful!

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📢 new blog alert 📢

I wrote about how #git & #github are helping me feel included as a #parttime worker.

#DataScience
#RStats #Python #Inclusion

https://t.co/fObjXYPn8F

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Excited to talk all things #geospatial at tomorrow's @TDLCommunity event!

Incl a brief overview on our @DataSciCampus @UNFPA_SOMALIA #deeplearning & #satelliteimagery project
https://t.co/7iR8V8jFXI

[Ana Basiri @AnahidBasiri]

Join us & discuss the challenges & opportunities of #Geospatial #Data

from #complexity, cost to #skill level required to derive insights to pathway to their #interoperability, #accessibility & maximising their potentials.

https://t.co/oLmKAcIAGI
26th Oct, online, for free

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And just another reason I think my toddler is half otter.

✅ eats on the go
✅ really likes rocks
✅ obsessed with water
✅ bites when over tired

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Sea otters eat on the go by cracking open mussels, sea urchins, and abalone with rocks, using their furry chests as anvils.

On #WorldAnimalDay, learn how marine biologists can pick out otter "utensils" from other rocks. https://t.co/ebtyi3zEWu

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📢 New Blog Post📷 Forecasting refugee and internally displaced figures using the @Refugees
#RStats package.

Leading on from the recent #TidyTuesday using the same package.

blog post: https://t.co/SuiuVffbve

github: https://t.co/JVbzjsxZDR

one of the figures below.

[Hollie McNish @holliepoetry]

As a straight woman, as you get older, men who only fancy girls under twenty-five stop fancying you. That is literally the only thing you lose. And that is what the entire anti-ageing obsession is based on. On those guys.

[Dr Nicci Potts @nicci_potts]

(very) late with my #tidytuesday submission for using the {refugee} package.

This is part of a blog post I hope to make live tonight (depending on how much of a battle bedtime is 👶🍷🫣)

#rstats #datascientist #mumlife

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Hearing Sir Ian emphasis data integrity makes me so proud to work at ONS!

[Jakub Nowosad @jakub_nowosad]

⚠️ rgdal, rgeos, and maptools won’t be available on CRAN after October 2023. ⚠️

What are the consequences of this change? What do you need to do as a user and as a developer?

Read my blog post at https://t.co/SW7hfT6l9T

#rstats #rspatial #gischat #geocompx

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@jakub_nowosad 😱

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@PhysicsSteve I've not managed to play enough with Quarto but there could be potential there for integrated code in documents! I'd love this!

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🔥Hot take - you shouldn't be able to publish a journal article about code you developed without making your repo accessible (or at the very least, open).

#Rstats #Python

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@staceholloway Also hope you are and family are doing well!

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(do people still use this platform?)

I've finally clawed back a bit of me time (14 months postpartum) & updated my #DataScience blog!

Not gonna lie it took longer to remember how to upload a post than it did to write the post 🫣😳