Sort of a seed funding for projects that are part academia and part start up at UW: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-unveils-amazon-catalyst-programs-backing/
First round of Amazon Catalyst Grants announced
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SIAM Talk on Reproducibility
> Victoria Stodden gave a talk on “Implementing Reproducibility in Computational Science” at the SIAM Annual meeting this summer — audio and slides are available at
https://www.pathlms.com/siam/courses/3028/sections/4128/video_presentations/31361
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Promising new book
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New report on Vaccine Confidence
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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235239641630398X
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Interesting Article
> 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.
Not about divide between theoretical and applied research. Not got me convinced, but good challenge to my beliefs.
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Policy Brief from my PHAST friends
> 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.
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Try my new visualization guessing game
I made a little game for a seminar on data visualization. Can you test it out for me? http://mybinder.org/repo/aflaxman/iths-communicating-results-visually-2
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I like AltMetrics now
Population Health Metrics
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Reading up on Spatial Big Data
So much to read:
Click to access CressieMassiveData.pdf
Click to access cressie_FRK.pdf
Click to access 1512.09327v1.pdf
My brother wrote a tutorial, feedback welcome:
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Software Carpentry Training and the Code of conduct
I greatly enjoyed a recent Software Carpentry (SWC) training that I attended. It was on training trainers, and had a ton of useful information.
One thing that it included, which has stuck in my mind is a “code of conduct”, which SWC has for all workshops. [link]
I like the way it incorporates humor; this also actually help me think of it, because I made a conscious choice _not_ to make fun of certain text editors twice during the two day workshop (despite the hilarious joke that I had to refrain from telling).
A question though: how to do? Just putting on the webpage is a little too little, perhaps, but reading the whole thing at the beginning of the workshop is too much for some instructors. I thought the approach we took was a bad compromise, reading some and saying that it existed. It could be good, but it could come off like this is something required that the instructors do to tick the box “we broadened participation”.
What about having the text projected at the beginning of the session, so while people are coming in and settling down, they can read it at their own pace. It needs to be projected in a readable font, which might be a technical challenge, since it is long. And anyone who shows up late will miss it. (I showed up late, maybe I missed it…)
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Healthy Algorithms 