I gave a talk on the DisMod book and it is online: http://www.healthdata.org/events/seminar/dismod-mr-gbd-study-integrative-systems-modeling-approach-meta-regression-descriptive
To read in JAMA:
Flavored Tobacco Product Use Among US Youth Aged 12-17 Years, 2013-2014
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2464690
and here is the survey instrument: [oops, didn’t get the link…]
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Fake git manual that could be real
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Reddit asks about IBM Watson
Is IBM Watson just (mostly) marketing? (self.MachineLearning)
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NIH, ScienceMag, and BoD
This article in ScienceMag caught my attention and then got forwarded to everyone: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/funding/2015/12/nih-drops-special-10-set-aside-aids-research
It looks like GBD stuff, but they never said IHME or GBD. But digging deeper… it is! http://report.nih.gov/info_disease_burden.aspx
Now we can say it is definitely our data even though the Science article doesn’t mention us.
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Replicability and reproducibility
Lots of material on Reproducible Research in my backlog… I’m going to get it out there for you (or at least for future-me).
—–Original Message—–
From: Reproducible On Behalf Of Ben Marwick
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 9:53 PM
Subject: [Reproducible] Language Log: Replicability vs. reproducibility — or is it the other way around?
A popular academic blog on linguistics just put up a post with a nice discussion of definitions of reproducibility in science:
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Ben Marwick on ‘The Conversation’: How computers broke science – and what we can do to fix it
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From: Reproducible On Behalf Of Ben Marwick
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 5:58 AM
Subject: [Reproducible] My article on ‘The Conversation’: How computers broke science – and what we can do to fix it
I wrote a short essay on reproducible research and how researchers use computers for a popular media outlet (citing UW eScience):
https://theconversation.com/how-computers-broke-science-and-what-we-can-do-to-fix-it-49938
Please leave a comment at the bottom to help demonstrate to other readers that there really is a movement toward this way of working, and I’m not making it up!
Ben
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Small area estimates by others in PHM
Article alert
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The following new article has just been published in Population Health Metrics
Research
Small area synthetic estimates of smoking prevalence during pregnancy in England
Szatkowski L, Fahy S, Coleman T, Taylor J, Twigg L, Moon G, Leonardi-Bee J
Population Health Metrics 2015, 13 :34 (9 December 2015)
http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/13/1/34
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To read: EnsembleMatrix paper
EnsembleMatrix: Interactive Visualization to Support Machine Learning with Multiple Classifiers http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/publications/CHI2009-EnsembleMatrix.pdf
I want one
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Vaccine Confidence blog reminds me of a reddit IamA
Both linked here for future reference:
Ode to Charles Darwin
http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/ode-to-charles-darwin
IamA Human Guinea Pig Getting the Newest Ebola Vaccine AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2gnn1r/iama_human_guinea_pig_getting_the_newest_ebola/
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Healthy Algorithms 