@wbez.org is an amazing resource for the Chicago community, and a worthwhile cause to contribute to however you can. Informed people are empowered people! #npr #wbez #pledge

Hopefully a lesson learned not with semester final grades.

Self-help books often cite population studies as evidence that you can change your life with one simple trick. X will improve your health. Y will make you more successful. But there's a crucial catch...

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Insights into quality of life measures in congressional districts.

www.congressionaldistricthealthdashboard.org

Working on preparing maps for a traffic accident data project with my class. Chicago's 18th Ward, traffic accident reports year-to-date.

My colleagues at Pitt and I put together a Medicaid reliance dashboard, drawing on data from @charlesgaba.com @centeronbudget.bsky.social Georgetown and NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard. shiny.crc.pitt.edu/congressiona...

I had no idea there were so many chickens in Nashville! Working through geolocation data practice with some awesome tutorials from @datacamp.bsky.social.

BTW, I published a paper in American Journal of Epidemiology outlining some of the most common fallacies that cause people to misunderstand observational data, or use observational data to mislead others with false claims.
It is now open access/freely available
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

Read a fantastically insightful book on Bayesian probability by @tomchivers.bsky.social. Very helpful to me as an educator in understanding and explaining stats and probability concepts to my students.

My students are looking for patterns, making predictions, and even designing games...🧵1/

The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding—new from @awalkerinla.bsky.social

www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...

TIL Tablesaw exists and I am really torn on which is the cooler library name, that or pandas.

“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯

www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...

Students are making images with code in my AP Computer Science Principles classes, and it's a blast to see. They can really go all out with their effort to make their creativity come to life!

I am absolutely (and repeatedly) encouraging students to take their creations home and show them off!

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TIL that following a technical audiobook while doing chores is... hard. Fantastic book, though, and doing better since I hit a more familiar topic in probability. Following up with text read to review.

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...

Finally got around to building my first choropleth map! Practicing so I can guide my students through making their own.

Source: data.cityofchicago.org

#chicago #dataviz #data #csed