Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
Statistics, machine learning, causal inference, health
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If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊
Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social
Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social
Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie
This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...
nrennie.rbind.io
August 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊
Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social
Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social
Positron is now out of beta 🥳https://github.com/posit-dev/positron
July 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Positron is now out of beta 🥳https://github.com/posit-dev/positron
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🚨 Call for Papers: Causal Data Science Meeting 2025
📅 November 12–13, 2025 (Virtual)
📥 Submit by Sept 30: submission@causalscience.org
🎙️ Keynote: Stefan Feuerriegel (LMU Munich)
🌐 More Info and registration: causalscience.org
#CausalML #AI #DataScience #CDSM2025 #CanIPetThatDAG
📅 November 12–13, 2025 (Virtual)
📥 Submit by Sept 30: submission@causalscience.org
🎙️ Keynote: Stefan Feuerriegel (LMU Munich)
🌐 More Info and registration: causalscience.org
#CausalML #AI #DataScience #CDSM2025 #CanIPetThatDAG
June 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🚨 Call for Papers: Causal Data Science Meeting 2025
📅 November 12–13, 2025 (Virtual)
📥 Submit by Sept 30: submission@causalscience.org
🎙️ Keynote: Stefan Feuerriegel (LMU Munich)
🌐 More Info and registration: causalscience.org
#CausalML #AI #DataScience #CDSM2025 #CanIPetThatDAG
📅 November 12–13, 2025 (Virtual)
📥 Submit by Sept 30: submission@causalscience.org
🎙️ Keynote: Stefan Feuerriegel (LMU Munich)
🌐 More Info and registration: causalscience.org
#CausalML #AI #DataScience #CDSM2025 #CanIPetThatDAG
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#ICLR2025 Marine Le Morvan presents "Imputation for prediction: beware of diminishing returns": poster Thu 24th
arxiv.org/abs/2407.19804
Concludes 6 years of research on prediction with missing values: Imputation is useful but improvements are expensive, while better learners yield easier gains.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.19804
Concludes 6 years of research on prediction with missing values: Imputation is useful but improvements are expensive, while better learners yield easier gains.
April 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
#ICLR2025 Marine Le Morvan presents "Imputation for prediction: beware of diminishing returns": poster Thu 24th
arxiv.org/abs/2407.19804
Concludes 6 years of research on prediction with missing values: Imputation is useful but improvements are expensive, while better learners yield easier gains.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.19804
Concludes 6 years of research on prediction with missing values: Imputation is useful but improvements are expensive, while better learners yield easier gains.
AI, cancer, and some psychology www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century
A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.
www.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
AI, cancer, and some psychology www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This month's Points of Significance column features propensity score weighting. Check it out!
@martin-krzywinski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@martin-krzywinski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Propensity score weighting - Nature Methods
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. —Mr. Spock (Star Trek II)
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This month's Points of Significance column features propensity score weighting. Check it out!
@martin-krzywinski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@martin-krzywinski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Mr. Spock, Sozialdemokrat.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mr. Spock, Sozialdemokrat.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Mr. Spock, Sozialdemokrat.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mr. Spock, Sozialdemokrat.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
BMJ will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
www.bmj.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
BMJ will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words www.bmj.com/content/388/...
interested in methods for #MetaAnalysis?
Symposium: Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis
Dortmund University, Germany, June 30th - July 1st, 2025 https://msind.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/en/research/events/meta-analysis-symposium-2025/
Symposium "Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis"
From June 30th - July 1st 2025, the symposium "Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis" will take place at TU Dortmund University.
msind.statistik.tu-dortmund.de
January 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
interested in methods for #MetaAnalysis?
Symposium: Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis
Dortmund University, Germany, June 30th - July 1st, 2025 https://msind.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/en/research/events/meta-analysis-symposium-2025/
The illustrated guide to a PhD matt.might.net/articles/phd...
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
matt.might.net
January 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The illustrated guide to a PhD matt.might.net/articles/phd...
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We have a NEW PAPER in @naturemedicine.bsky.social on reporting recommendations for addressing the unique challenges of #largelanguagemodels (LLMs) in biomedical applications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MLSky #StatsSky #medSky #AISky #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #transparency
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MLSky #StatsSky #medSky #AISky #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #transparency
January 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We have a NEW PAPER in @naturemedicine.bsky.social on reporting recommendations for addressing the unique challenges of #largelanguagemodels (LLMs) in biomedical applications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MLSky #StatsSky #medSky #AISky #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #transparency
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#MLSky #StatsSky #medSky #AISky #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #transparency
Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries - Nature Medicine
Estimates from the Global Dietary Database indicated that 2.2 million new type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cardiovascular disease cases were attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages worldwide in 2...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An evaluation framework for clinical use of large language models in patient interaction tasks https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03328-5 (read free: https://rdcu.be/d5oJ1) 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/rajpurkarlab/craft-md
January 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
An evaluation framework for clinical use of large language models in patient interaction tasks https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03328-5 (read free: https://rdcu.be/d5oJ1) 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/rajpurkarlab/craft-md
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This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
Over 100 German Universities Partner with #MDPI in New National Agreement
Over 100 German Universities Partner with MDPI in New National Agreement
More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI. The publication agreement negotiated...
buff.ly
December 21, 2024 at 12:25 AM
This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
Novo Nordisk stock crashed -20% today because their new weight loss drug is less effective than expected 😟
December 20, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Novo Nordisk stock crashed -20% today because their new weight loss drug is less effective than expected 😟
Interesting comparison and benchmarks between spark, duckdb and polars mwc360.github.io/data-enginee...
Should You Ditch Spark for DuckDb or Polars?
There’s been a lot of excitement lately about single-machine compute engines like DuckDB and Polars. With the recent release of pure Python Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, the excitement about these li...
mwc360.github.io
December 15, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Interesting comparison and benchmarks between spark, duckdb and polars mwc360.github.io/data-enginee...
In 2024, obesity surpasses smoking as the top preventable disease risk due to rising obesity rates and declining smoking. www.scimex.org/newsfeed/bei...
Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024
Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024
Living with overweight or obesity has overtaken tobacco smoking as the leading risk factor contributing t...
www.scimex.org
December 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
In 2024, obesity surpasses smoking as the top preventable disease risk due to rising obesity rates and declining smoking. www.scimex.org/newsfeed/bei...
Saudi Arabia’s scheme to boost university rankings by paying foreign scientists to falsely claim Saudi affiliations has collapsed https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-stop-falsely-claiming-to-work-in-saudi-arabia.html
Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings
english.elpais.com
December 7, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Saudi Arabia’s scheme to boost university rankings by paying foreign scientists to falsely claim Saudi affiliations has collapsed https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-stop-falsely-claiming-to-work-in-saudi-arabia.html
Dark chocolate good, milk chocolate bad 🤔🫣 www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
Objective To prospectively investigate the associations between dark, milk, and total chocolate consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in three US cohorts.
Design Prospective cohort studies.
...
www.bmj.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Dark chocolate good, milk chocolate bad 🤔🫣 www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Highly recommended 👇
Interested in how to use non-experimental data to answer causal research questions? Mystified by DAGs and counterfactuals? Want to learn what Target Trial Emulation is all about?
Sign up now for the 2nd edition of our summer school, 7-11 July in Utrecht, with @vanamsterdam.bsky.social & BPdeVries
Sign up now for the 2nd edition of our summer school, 7-11 July in Utrecht, with @vanamsterdam.bsky.social & BPdeVries
Introduction to Causal Inference and Causal Data Science | Utrecht Summer School
The course takes an interdisciplinary approach and is suitable for applied researchers across health, social and behavioural sciences.
utrechtsummerschool.nl
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Highly recommended 👇
Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite archive.ph/2024.11.23-2...
archive.ph
December 2, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite archive.ph/2024.11.23-2...
Altmetric is now on bluesky and they started tracking publications mentioned here
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
#AcademicSky #Altmetrics #HigherEd
#AcademicSky #Altmetrics #HigherEd
December 2, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Altmetric is now on bluesky and they started tracking publications mentioned here
I don’t know how to read csv files in #swift but something like this should solve #adventofcode day1: zip(leftList, rightList).map { abs($0 - $1) }.reduce(0, +)
December 1, 2024 at 6:40 PM
I don’t know how to read csv files in #swift but something like this should solve #adventofcode day1: zip(leftList, rightList).map { abs($0 - $1) }.reduce(0, +)
If you enjoy #adventofcode but you’re more of a data person you might also enjoy the Hanukkah of Data #rstats #julialang #python hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5784/
Noah's Rug (5784) — Hanukkah of Data
hanukkah.bluebird.sh
December 1, 2024 at 2:12 PM
If you enjoy #adventofcode but you’re more of a data person you might also enjoy the Hanukkah of Data #rstats #julialang #python hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5784/