Always makes me think: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/expressing_proportions.pdf
Not sure I agree so much with this edition, but I like that he is taking on those goofy unit charts (and I missed the Unit Charts are for Kids essay the first time around http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/unit_charts_are_for_kids.pdf )
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Food Literacy: How Do Communications and Marketing Impact Consumer Knowledge, Skills, and Behavior? Workshop Summary
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21897/food-literacy-how-do-communications-and-marketing-impact-consumer-knowledge
Applying an Implementation Science Approach to Genomic Medicine: Workshop Summary
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23403/applying-an-implementation-science-approach-to-genomic-medicine-workshop-summary
Establishing an African Association for Health Professions Education and Research:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23485/establishing-an-african-association-for-health-professions-education-and-research
The Promises and Perils of Digital Strategies in Achieving Health Equity:
Workshop Summary
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23439/the-promises-and-perils-of-digital-strategies-in-achieving-health-equity
Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/23442/ending-discrimination-against-people-with-mental-and-substance-use-disorders
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Another one for the reading list:
Article alert
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The following new articles have just been published in Population Health Metrics
Research
A novel method for estimating distributions of body mass index
Ng M, Liu P, Thomson B, Murray C
Population Health Metrics 2016, 14 :6 (12 March 2016)
http://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12963-016-0076-2
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Metrics That Matter for Population Health Action: Workshop Summary
http://www.nap.edu/read/21899/chapter/1
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Article alert
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The following new article has just been published in Population Health Metrics
Research
Causes of death in Vanuatu
Carter K, Tovu V, Langati J, Buttsworth M, Dingley L, Calo A, Harrison G, Rao C, Lopez A, Taylor R
Population Health Metrics 2016, 14 :7 (15 March 2016)
http://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12963-016-0074-4
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This could be a useful guide: http://terrytangyuan.github.io/2016/03/14/scikit-flow-intro/
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Got to keep an eye on the changes: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.18.0/whatsnew.html
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When I was deep in the depths of comparing methods for computer certification of verbal autopsies, I was a big fan of Random Forests for determining underlying cause of death from interview data. But my colleagues urged me to consider methods that would be easier to inspect and to explain. I’m starting to see why, for example the exchange below:
From: Carmen
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 7:48 AM
To: Abraham D. Flaxman
Subject: tariff
Dear Abie,
I hope everything is going well with you.
We are improve the translation of the short VA to Portuguese, specifically, the questions adult_2 7 and adult_2_10. Would you send us the tariffs of these symptoms? They will help us so much.
Best regards,
Carmen
2016-03-15 17:50 GMT-03:00 Abraham D. Flaxman :
Hi Carmen,
Happy to help:
I’ve attached a spreadsheet that includes all signs and symptoms in this format.
Can I publish your question and my answer on my blog https://healthyalgorithms.wordpress.com ? I think this sort of thinking will be helpful for others doing VA translation work.
–Abie
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From: Science of Science Policy Listserv
Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 7:27 AM
Subject: [scisip] New Team Science Report from Academy of Medical Science
Dear List,
Given conversations on this list about Team Science, I think you will find this new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) to be quite interesting. They took a career-impact approach to studying the issues and have some fairly specific recommendations for stakeholders.
http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/collaborating-on-large-science-projects-must-not-harm-careers/
Enjoy!
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Healthy Algorithms 