One thing the SWC training got me thinking about is the word “loop” as in “for loop”. It is something so familiar to me that I never tried to figure out why it is called a loop. I think it must come from computational flow diagrams. Incidentally, I read a book full of vintage flow diagrams recently, as part of my efforts to get up to speed on microsimulation: [Art of Simulation]
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The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561&utm_term=alsomay
Age-aggregation bias in mortality trends
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/7/E816.full
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Our work on benchmarking efficiency is now out: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0653-z
It uses some very cool econ and OR methods, and it even has a press release: http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/improving-health-facility-efficiency-could-markedly-expand-hiv-treatment :
“Improving efficiency can support major gains in expanding ART to people who need treatment, especially when funding is limited,” says IHME Assistant Professor Abraham Flaxman, senior author of the study. “Now we, as a global health community, need to figure out how.”
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From the sklearn docs: “We call our estimator instance `clf`, as it is a classifier.” http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/basic/tutorial.html#learning-and-predicting
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It took a while, but we finally managed to put together all the GBD results on hepatitis: http://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30579-7/abstract
It has had some traction with the press: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36717828
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/hepatitis-kills-aids-tb-160707040458197.html
http://www.20minutos.com.mx/noticia/109751/0/la-hepatitis-se-convierte-en-la-principal-causa-de-muerte-en-el-mundo/
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Actually not about games or “serious gaming”: http://www.techbridgegirls.org/index.php?id=277
A nice critique of the “leaky pipeline” metaphor in p. 12: http://online.fliphtml5.com/udnc/tezw/#p=12
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Paid for by Chevron, so I guess they know more than most about pipelines…
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Nice update on polio eradication efforts from Heidi Larson’s Vaccine Confidence Report: http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/is-the-big-switch-the-final-piece-in-the-polio-jigsaw/
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Improving the measurement of maternal mortality in Thailand using multiple data sources
Chandoevwit W, Phatchana P, Sirigomon K, Ieawsuwan K, Thungthong J, Ruangdej S
Population Health Metrics 2016, 14 :16 (4 May 2016)
http://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12963-016-0087-z
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Healthy Algorithms 