I’ve been watching the classic Lorax with my four-year-old. It seems like something is missing from the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V06ZOQuo0k
Visualizing Uncertainty
Click to access paper_BELIV_evaluating_uncertainty_vis.pdf
Click to access HoekstraEtAlPBR.pdf
Click to access uncertain-bus-chi2016.pdf
Click to access MacEachren_Visualizing_98.pdf
Click to access MacEachren_IEEE_TVCG_PrePub_2012_reduced_res.pdf
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6654171
Click to access MacEachren_IEEE_TVCG_PrePub_2012_reduced_res.pdf
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Vaccine Delivery, the case of HPV prevention
Tough choices are when and how much. http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2588253
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Write-up of my SIAM Tutorial
That was nice of them to do: https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/machine-learnings-impact-on-global-public-health
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So cool–nbtutor
The first release of nbtutor (“Visualize Python code execution (line-by-line) in Jupyter Notebook cells.”) is available on pypi:
pip install nbtutor jupyter nbextension install --sys-prefix --overwrite --py nbtutor jupyter nbextension enable --sys-prefix --py nbtutor
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Pretty good alphabet book
This was not designed for kids, but it seems to have captured my 4 year old’s attention for the moring: https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/az.html
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Point/Polygon Pubs
Some additional papers on the point/polygon problem:
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Named Entity Resolution in Python
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GATHER
Did I not yet blog about the GATHER guidelines? I know I sent some excited emails about them when they were released. GATHER mandates reproducible research for descriptive epidemiology. Full details: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30388-9/fulltext
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Global Health and the US Election
Heidi Larson | November 19, 2016
Donald Trump could be the biggest single threat to vaccine confidence ever faced.
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The confidence levels required to maintain vaccination at a sufficient level to ensure herd immunity are high. Currently 83% of Americans think that vaccines are safe – but, only a small drop in that number could lower vaccine confidence and uptake to unacceptable levels and risk disease outbreaks. In Texas, Wakefield’s current home state, the trend in vaccine exemptions is already accelerating with the number of exemptions up to 44,716 in 2016, from only 2,314 in 2003.
http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/dangerous-liaisons
May I suggest that the term “herd immunity” should be replaced? To me, it sounds disrespectful to the children the vaccines are intended to protect. I think “group immunity” could be an alternative amenable to the editor’s find-and-replace feature.
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Healthy Algorithms 
