When I mentioned that our Injury in Baghdad paper is out https://healthyalgorithms.com/2015/08/26/injury-epidemiology-of-baghdad/, I didn’t mention that the data was released with the paper. Cool: http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.0nk1p
Monthly Archives: September 2015
MCMC Mixing Mysteries
I love doing Math Reviews, for the random stuff I get to read. Here is a paper I probably would not have found:
MR3208124 Rom\’an, Jorge Carlos, Hobert, James P.\ and Presnell, Brett, On reparametrization and the Gibbs sampler, Statist. Probab. Lett. 91 (2014), 110–116.
The Gibbs sampler may be out of fashion with the Bayesian computation crowd these days, but the reparameterizations are still mysterious. I tried the PyMC3 NUTS sampler on the first example and it too has rather different mixing times: https://gist.github.com/aflaxman/be253895efd0e2962472
Major Updates to GBD Compare tool
Lots of new features: http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ Very smooth UX. Do old links still work?
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Global Health in WA State
Interesting report: http://www.wghalliance.org/Portals/0/Documents/Mapping%20Study/Washington%20Global%20Health%20Landscape%20Study%202015%20Final.pdf
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I asked for an improvement to mpld3, and somebody did it!
So cool! http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/aflaxman/153dc591c6b63578d9ec
If you don’t ask, how would somebody know that you want it:
https://github.com/jakevdp/mpld3/issues/312
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New GBD paper: Maintenance dialysis throughout the world in years 1990 and 2010
This one had some of the most detailed data when we were doing GBD 2010: http://www.healthdata.org/research-article/maintenance-dialysis-throughout-world-years-1990-and-2010
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What I’m reading: Databases to Track Use of Preventive Services After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
A summer best-seller? http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/~/media/publications/pdfs/health/preventservices_litreview_issuebrief.pdf
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Healthy Algorithms 