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This year’s State of Vaccine Confidence study surveyed 65,819 individuals across 67 countries, investigating confidence in vaccine safety and effectiveness, as well as perceptions of vaccine importance and compatibility with religious beliefs. The analysis, published in EBioMedicine, was conducted in collaboration with Imperial College London and the National University of Singapore, and the data was collected by WIN/Gallup International Association.

http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/we-are-pleased-to-announce-the-publication-ofthe-state-of-vaccine-confidence-2016/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235239641630398X

> Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world.

Saving Science

Not about divide between theoretical and applied research. Not got me convinced, but good challenge to my beliefs.

> Lead exposure is was in the national spotlight. However, public health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers lack timely, comparable, community-specific data to make prompt decisions when extensive lead exposures endanger population health.

Click to access PHAST_Brief_Lead_2016_Final_complete.pdf

Got to keep an eye on the changes: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.18.0/whatsnew.html

I would like to combine the Google Deep Dream with Smudge. This is a way to remind me to try sometime.

There was a recent CrossValidated question that caught my interest: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/172163/making-a-single-decision-tree-from-a-random-forest

Here is my answer: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/172163/making-a-single-decision-tree-from-a-random-forest/172811#172811

It made me ask another question: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/172810/are-there-any-new-approaches-to-generating-random-examples-in-combined-multiple

DEF CON 23 – Chris Rock – I Will Kill You