Dr Juulia Suvilehto
@juulia.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood (data & neuro-) scientist. Interested in healthcare, big data, social interaction, tea, and cats. 🇫🇮 living in 🇸🇪
Great talk by @hollycummins.com at Lindholmen developer day. As a data person and as someone who used to work with healthcare this resonated a lot: "don't make human tell computer things the computer already knows". It is so key but so often neglected in practice (&definitely a thief of joy) #databs
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Great talk by @hollycummins.com at Lindholmen developer day. As a data person and as someone who used to work with healthcare this resonated a lot: "don't make human tell computer things the computer already knows". It is so key but so often neglected in practice (&definitely a thief of joy) #databs
Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This is how I ended up plotting my LLM system output vs human annotation vs LLM-as-a-judge evals. Extra thanks to @libbyheeren.bsky.social for boosting my original question. #databs #dataviz
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This is how I ended up plotting my LLM system output vs human annotation vs LLM-as-a-judge evals. Extra thanks to @libbyheeren.bsky.social for boosting my original question. #databs #dataviz
Any references for good visualizations of LLM evals? We have orig system output (yes/no), a human annotator's y/n and a number of different y/n evaluations. The aim is to see how good our original system is and how much of the issues do the diff LLM evals catch. How would you visualize this? #databs
September 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Any references for good visualizations of LLM evals? We have orig system output (yes/no), a human annotator's y/n and a number of different y/n evaluations. The aim is to see how good our original system is and how much of the issues do the diff LLM evals catch. How would you visualize this? #databs
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#DataBS Conf 2025 preshow! We have two talks that we couldn't fit into the schedule but the speakers pre-recorded their talk for us to share before the main event next week!
Both are really good and give me lots of excitement about what we'll see next week.
ti.to/databsconf/d... <- free tix
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Both are really good and give me lots of excitement about what we'll see next week.
ti.to/databsconf/d... <- free tix
🧵1/3
DataBS Conf
"Data, Behind the Scenes" is a free-to-attend online-only, single track conference centered on the real stories of data work from the folks in the trenches. We’re not here for the latest AI hype, perf...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#DataBS Conf 2025 preshow! We have two talks that we couldn't fit into the schedule but the speakers pre-recorded their talk for us to share before the main event next week!
Both are really good and give me lots of excitement about what we'll see next week.
ti.to/databsconf/d... <- free tix
🧵1/3
Both are really good and give me lots of excitement about what we'll see next week.
ti.to/databsconf/d... <- free tix
🧵1/3
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This week on Counting Stuff, the #dataBS conference attendee registration form is open! Also an intro to the 6 of 14 talks we have confirmed!
Tickets are free/pay-what-you-want and there's technically a limit on attendees so grab yours today!
www.counting-stuff.com/databs-conf-...
Tickets are free/pay-what-you-want and there's technically a limit on attendees so grab yours today!
www.counting-stuff.com/databs-conf-...
DataBS Conf attendee registration is open!
Also the first batch of confirmed speakers listed
www.counting-stuff.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This week on Counting Stuff, the #dataBS conference attendee registration form is open! Also an intro to the 6 of 14 talks we have confirmed!
Tickets are free/pay-what-you-want and there's technically a limit on attendees so grab yours today!
www.counting-stuff.com/databs-conf-...
Tickets are free/pay-what-you-want and there's technically a limit on attendees so grab yours today!
www.counting-stuff.com/databs-conf-...
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The weekend is here!
Perfect time to submit your #dataBS talk.
We want your lessons-learned stories from data work, everything from "my data pipeline: the unsung hero" to "how we got that AI system working" to "what we learned when it fell over."
Details and sign-up:
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
Perfect time to submit your #dataBS talk.
We want your lessons-learned stories from data work, everything from "my data pipeline: the unsung hero" to "how we got that AI system working" to "what we learned when it fell over."
Details and sign-up:
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
Data Behind the Scenes Conf - Call for Speakers
What This Conference Is About
"Data, Behind the Scenes" is a (free) online-only, single track conference centered on the real stories of data work from the folks in the trenches. We’re not here for th...
bit.ly
July 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The weekend is here!
Perfect time to submit your #dataBS talk.
We want your lessons-learned stories from data work, everything from "my data pipeline: the unsung hero" to "how we got that AI system working" to "what we learned when it fell over."
Details and sign-up:
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
Perfect time to submit your #dataBS talk.
We want your lessons-learned stories from data work, everything from "my data pipeline: the unsung hero" to "how we got that AI system working" to "what we learned when it fell over."
Details and sign-up:
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
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Hey #dataBS! Got some stories about how data is messily done to accomplish real things? Have you learned a painful lesson about how not to do something? Then you've got something to share and should submit a talk to the Data Behind the Scenes Conference! (Form closes July 31)
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
Data Behind the Scenes Conf - Call for Speakers
What This Conference Is About
"Data, Behind the Scenes" is a (free) online-only, single track conference centered on the real stories of data work from the folks in the trenches. We’re not here for th...
bit.ly
July 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hey #dataBS! Got some stories about how data is messily done to accomplish real things? Have you learned a painful lesson about how not to do something? Then you've got something to share and should submit a talk to the Data Behind the Scenes Conference! (Form closes July 31)
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
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The #dataBS (Data Behind the Scenes) Conference Call for speakers is out! We're gonna do this!!
All online, single track, free to attend. Come talk about your messy experiences doing data stuff. At work, personal projects, whatever. A space to commiserate about nerdy things!
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
All online, single track, free to attend. Come talk about your messy experiences doing data stuff. At work, personal projects, whatever. A space to commiserate about nerdy things!
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
Data Behind the Scenes Conf - Call for Speakers
What This Conference Is About
"Data, Behind the Scenes" is a (free) online-only, single track conference centered on the real stories of data work from the folks in the trenches. We’re not here for th...
bit.ly
July 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The #dataBS (Data Behind the Scenes) Conference Call for speakers is out! We're gonna do this!!
All online, single track, free to attend. Come talk about your messy experiences doing data stuff. At work, personal projects, whatever. A space to commiserate about nerdy things!
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
All online, single track, free to attend. Come talk about your messy experiences doing data stuff. At work, personal projects, whatever. A space to commiserate about nerdy things!
bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs
Academics, get thee some fuck off skills. Marketable skills that can help you fuck off from academia and get employed elsewhere. I see folx do multiple postdocs because they don't know what else they could do. Don't let that be you - make sure you have the ability to fuck off #academia #AcademicSky
June 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Academics, get thee some fuck off skills. Marketable skills that can help you fuck off from academia and get employed elsewhere. I see folx do multiple postdocs because they don't know what else they could do. Don't let that be you - make sure you have the ability to fuck off #academia #AcademicSky
I seem to re-learn this truth at regular intervals: if you're looking for an explanation of how something slightly niche works, find a master's thesis related to the topic. Students (at least in the nordics) are expected to explain the whole thing and not leave steps out (unlike academic articles).
May 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I seem to re-learn this truth at regular intervals: if you're looking for an explanation of how something slightly niche works, find a master's thesis related to the topic. Students (at least in the nordics) are expected to explain the whole thing and not leave steps out (unlike academic articles).
I was studying at the uni and we had programming courses where you could get support from the TAs on the course's own IRC channel. I used Google reader to keep up with my favorite blogs. There was so little fluff or ads on websites, it was just raw html and original, stellar content 🥺
open question for the room: how were you using the internet in 2008?
April 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I was studying at the uni and we had programming courses where you could get support from the TAs on the course's own IRC channel. I used Google reader to keep up with my favorite blogs. There was so little fluff or ads on websites, it was just raw html and original, stellar content 🥺
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Ok, this is the kind of April Fools joke I love. Read the extracts below!
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
April 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ok, this is the kind of April Fools joke I love. Read the extracts below!
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You will all stop everything you are doing and HAIL this CHONKY QUEEN
Polar plunge
Polar bear Nora loves to dive, so care staff came up with a way to safely place a camera at the bottom of her pool to watch her underwater. Beary cool!
Polar bear Nora loves to dive, so care staff came up with a way to safely place a camera at the bottom of her pool to watch her underwater. Beary cool!
March 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
You will all stop everything you are doing and HAIL this CHONKY QUEEN
My first #tidytuesday #pydytuesday where I look at how different palmtree species are armoured. I challenged myself to work in plotnine and it's been a learning curve for sure! Code available here github.com/jtsuvile/tid...
March 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My first #tidytuesday #pydytuesday where I look at how different palmtree species are armoured. I challenged myself to work in plotnine and it's been a learning curve for sure! Code available here github.com/jtsuvile/tid...
Only dating advice I can give is to always check for implausible dates (like 1900-01-01 or anything >50 years into the future) as potential missing values in disguise. #dataBS #datasky
only dating advice i can give is that when there is disagreement between two copies of the same text, the one which has the less-sensical reading is likely to be older, given scribes’ and translators’ inclination to “fix” texts as they translated/made copies throughout antiquity
March 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I'm trying to use a metric_set with accuracy together with cal_validate_logistic() from {probably}. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to set the parameter 'truth' (which typically is 'target'). @topepo.bsky.social do you know if there is a vignette showing how to do this somewhere? 🙏 #dataBS
March 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm trying to use a metric_set with accuracy together with cal_validate_logistic() from {probably}. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to set the parameter 'truth' (which typically is 'target'). @topepo.bsky.social do you know if there is a vignette showing how to do this somewhere? 🙏 #dataBS
I'm trying out a new thing in my collaboration with clinical researchers this time around: I created a Quarto document with a "results section" based on a dummy model and I'm using it to get buy-in for the metrics & plots before we actually fine-tune the model. Let's see if this works! #dataBS
February 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I'm trying out a new thing in my collaboration with clinical researchers this time around: I created a Quarto document with a "results section" based on a dummy model and I'm using it to get buy-in for the metrics & plots before we actually fine-tune the model. Let's see if this works! #dataBS
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Bluesky, we need this right now: see Umbrella, post Umbrella.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
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February 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Bluesky, we need this right now: see Umbrella, post Umbrella.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
This is something I see a lot - people who know very little about AI want to use it to do every thing. People who understand AI better are much more reserved. I do my best to disillusion folks in my organisation..
Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
January 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This is something I see a lot - people who know very little about AI want to use it to do every thing. People who understand AI better are much more reserved. I do my best to disillusion folks in my organisation..
I no longer live in the country I grew up in. Every time I come back home I'm floored by how easy dealing with folks (customer service, contractors) is when I a) get to speak my native language and b) actually understand the rules that the society operates by. Just 🤯
January 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I no longer live in the country I grew up in. Every time I come back home I'm floored by how easy dealing with folks (customer service, contractors) is when I a) get to speak my native language and b) actually understand the rules that the society operates by. Just 🤯
"the methodology seems to work well enough that you can't rule it out immediately, *even if might be garbage for your particular task due to the specific intersection of quirks of your project.*" it's always the project specific quirks that get you.. #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/labeling-thi...
Labeling things by hand when everyone's trying not to
The hot stuff right now is labeling with LLMs, but y'know, maybe consider not?
www.counting-stuff.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"the methodology seems to work well enough that you can't rule it out immediately, *even if might be garbage for your particular task due to the specific intersection of quirks of your project.*" it's always the project specific quirks that get you.. #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/labeling-thi...
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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT
More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
I gave a talk earlier in the fall about AI in healthcare, talking about the hype and the challenges and where does that leave us. My talk focuses on a Nordic single-payer style healthcare but a lot of it generalises to different healthcare systems youtu.be/qqcYHWlCKkk?... #healthcare #dataBS
Juulia Suvilehto - AI in healthcare - what is hype and what is real?
YouTube video by Øredev Conference
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December 30, 2024 at 3:55 PM
I gave a talk earlier in the fall about AI in healthcare, talking about the hype and the challenges and where does that leave us. My talk focuses on a Nordic single-payer style healthcare but a lot of it generalises to different healthcare systems youtu.be/qqcYHWlCKkk?... #healthcare #dataBS
My colleagues are impressed by my shitposting game on the designated shitposting teams channel when really I just repost the best of #dataBS
One of my fav posts from @brunoborges.bsky.social over on the old site, hope he doesn't mind me reposting it here :)
#dataBS
#dataBS
December 13, 2024 at 3:54 PM
My colleagues are impressed by my shitposting game on the designated shitposting teams channel when really I just repost the best of #dataBS
...and just like in Harlow's monkey experiments, IRL interaction with conspecifics is much, much better than either of these
December 2, 2024 at 9:39 AM
...and just like in Harlow's monkey experiments, IRL interaction with conspecifics is much, much better than either of these