Otho

Biologist, data scientist

[Marta Foresti @martaforesti]

Blown away by the interest and rage 😡 on the work on visa inequality.

With LAGO I have a clear aim: to tell a truthful, beautiful and inspiring story about the movement of people around the 🌍

To do so I collaborate with @fedfragapane ✨

First we looked at visa inequality 👇

[Marta Foresti @martaforesti]

@othomn @ODI_Global Delighted with media interest and reactions.

Some headlines suggest that Europe is making a profit from the fees, which is not the point : fees cover the processing of applications, not the outcome.

But the unequal rejection rates in some countries is a very high price to pay!

[Otho @othomn]

@AnnaMatuszynska @t_pfennig Amazing! Congratulations to both of you ☀️

[Otho @othomn]

@NathanShammah @unitaryfund While deciding which technology to use for this web report, we evaluated power BI, Svelte, and eventually selected #quarto. So happy with this choice, quarto is such a well crafted tool to weave together R and JS, getting the best of both.

[Otho @othomn]

It’s been great to team up with Verdiana Pasqualini and to work with @NathanShammah and Ben Castanon for the 2023 Quantum OS Survey by @unitaryfund , a noprofit fostering open source quantum tech. Looking forward for the impact that this survey can have on the community!

[Nathan Shammah @NathanShammah]

12/ Many thanks to all Unitary Fund Members and @NSF for support. @othomn & Verdiana for data viz. Read the full analysis on the @unitaryfund blog post https://t.co/TNvjNenrka
EOF /🧵.

[Nathan Shammah @NathanShammah]

🧵1/ Today at @unitaryfund we released the results of the 2023 Quantum Open Source Survey. Lots of interesting data on the current status of software for quantum computing and we start to see some trends as this is the second year in a row. Short thread with my top picks.

[Unitary Foundation @unitaryfdn]

📊 The 2nd annual Quantum Open Source Survey results are here!
A huge thank you to all the outstanding community members who provided feedback, guidance, and thoughtful responses to the survey.
📝 Blog: https://t.co/KDCG9uUAa3
📞 Results discussion: https://t.co/IWU0gwEkSI

[Africa Rising Cycling @CyclingAfrica]

For folk interested in the issues that the current Eritrean cycling visa situation is raising, there is a very insightful recent blog written by @martaforesti and @othomn for @AfricaAtLSE which describes the situation very well and is well worth a read…

#AfricaRising

https://t.co/2zBKkmfOkp

[Marta Foresti @martaforesti]

@YinkaWrites @SemaforAfrica Yes they are!

Europe and the UK don’t do much better: rejection rates for leisure and business visas are way higher for Africans than most other nationalities.

Key figures in these 2 graphs and more on data by @othomn and me here 👇

https://t.co/JdI1L02NJD

[Marta Foresti @martaforesti]

On visas, still 🚨🚨

How easy is it to visit the UK 🇬🇧 for business or leisure?

Well, it depends. China, Turkey and Nigeria lodge similar numbers of applications. Yet Nigerians are twice as likely to have a visa rejected than Turks and four times the Chinese.

Why? 🤔 #visa

[ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social @ODI_Global]

Europe is losing out from its own discriminatory visa regimes.

And as @martaforesti & @othomn write, this also needs to change to build better and more equal relations with Africa.

New @AfricaAtLSE blog now out ⤵️

[Eve Fairbanks @evefairbanks]

Somebody simply has to write the ultimate catch-all essay on disruptive, libertarian, private-sector-touting entrepreneurs simply begging and demanding for state intervention at the end of their journeys. (This is the Titan sub company's adviser.)

[Marta Foresti @martaforesti]

😤 😡🤬

Visa systems are broken. And we all miss out. Me and @othomn have some thoughts 👇

[Marta Foresti @martaforesti]

Why do people get on the boats and die at sea?

Because if you are from a poor country, there is no other way. Explore the data 👇

https://t.co/JdI1L02NJD

You cannot visit, you cannot be trusted, you cannot do business, you cannot move.

🙏 @othomn for the collaboration #visas

[Otho @othomn]

@motomatters Ouch 😂😅

[Francesco Iacorossi @francis_rojo_]

58 le persone morte in incidenti stradali a Roma e provincia nel 2023. Più di 10 morti al mese, nella maggioranza dei casi, pedoni, ciclisti e anziani. Tanto rumore per la sacrosanta #FasciaVerde o per del carbone vegetale a Fontana di Trevi ma nulla per impedire questa strage!

[stefano liberti @abutiago]

Queste morti non sono fatalità, ma frutto di precise politiche pubbliche, che hanno trasformato le strade della nostra città in piste da corsa per automobili.
Invertiamo la rotta @gualtierieurope, @eugenio_patane @GiovanniZannola ?

https://t.co/f7PocLZvDZ

[Alison Presmanes Hill @apreshill]

This is a very cool feature and would have totally transformed all of my previous teaching materials 🫠

[Otho @othomn]

A bit of an experiment, but I'm pretty happy with the results.

[Otho @othomn]

Haven't been using twitter for a while, but I wanted to share this dashboard that I did with #quarto, #rstats and #D3js showing #AirQuality in Milano, Italy, starting from #OpenData.

Dashboard: https://t.co/cfviVIySfO
Source code: https://t.co/ZriaIwWg7Z