Ken Đinh Vũ (he/him/his)
@kenvu.bsky.social
📊 Statistics & data science
🔍 Program evaluation & data storytelling
💻 #rstats enthusiast
🌎 Nonprofit/public service
All my work and other social media accounts here - linktr.ee/kenvu
🔍 Program evaluation & data storytelling
💻 #rstats enthusiast
🌎 Nonprofit/public service
All my work and other social media accounts here - linktr.ee/kenvu
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#introduction
I'm an MS Statistics graduate who codes in #r (and #python in the past).
I work as a data storyteller in #education and #environment -related contexts.
Interests: Mental health, nature, some politics, history, and culture, #rstats
Hobbies: hiking, food, D&D, gaming, reading
I'm an MS Statistics graduate who codes in #r (and #python in the past).
I work as a data storyteller in #education and #environment -related contexts.
Interests: Mental health, nature, some politics, history, and culture, #rstats
Hobbies: hiking, food, D&D, gaming, reading
Some underrated musicians who play blues I recommend:
- Cassie Taylor (a melodic bassist and LGBTQ+ activist)
- Vicki Huang (Taiwanese folk player and DJ)
- Reverend Robert Jones (country blues player, teacher, and educator)
- Samantha Fish (Grammy nominated rockstar)
Anyone else you'd add?
- Cassie Taylor (a melodic bassist and LGBTQ+ activist)
- Vicki Huang (Taiwanese folk player and DJ)
- Reverend Robert Jones (country blues player, teacher, and educator)
- Samantha Fish (Grammy nominated rockstar)
Anyone else you'd add?
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Some underrated musicians who play blues I recommend:
- Cassie Taylor (a melodic bassist and LGBTQ+ activist)
- Vicki Huang (Taiwanese folk player and DJ)
- Reverend Robert Jones (country blues player, teacher, and educator)
- Samantha Fish (Grammy nominated rockstar)
Anyone else you'd add?
- Cassie Taylor (a melodic bassist and LGBTQ+ activist)
- Vicki Huang (Taiwanese folk player and DJ)
- Reverend Robert Jones (country blues player, teacher, and educator)
- Samantha Fish (Grammy nominated rockstar)
Anyone else you'd add?
The amount of AI slop I constantly run into on YT can get demoralizing fast. Not to mention it's often vapid and manipulative generated content. Then again, it's only amplifying what it sees in our already hyper corporatized "pop culture" where everything's a product to sell w/o a soul
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The amount of AI slop I constantly run into on YT can get demoralizing fast. Not to mention it's often vapid and manipulative generated content. Then again, it's only amplifying what it sees in our already hyper corporatized "pop culture" where everything's a product to sell w/o a soul
Got CD of all of #RobertJohnson 's songs. A trailblazing Delta Blues player that inspired future #blues musicians. Wild fingerstyle & slide player doing bass + melody at same time! 😲🎸
A rebel for his time who died young, yet still lives on in blues
Will check Memphis Minnie next so stay tuned 🤫
A rebel for his time who died young, yet still lives on in blues
Will check Memphis Minnie next so stay tuned 🤫
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Got CD of all of #RobertJohnson 's songs. A trailblazing Delta Blues player that inspired future #blues musicians. Wild fingerstyle & slide player doing bass + melody at same time! 😲🎸
A rebel for his time who died young, yet still lives on in blues
Will check Memphis Minnie next so stay tuned 🤫
A rebel for his time who died young, yet still lives on in blues
Will check Memphis Minnie next so stay tuned 🤫
"Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Son House" gives a good overview of the work of Son House - one of my favorite Delta Blues players. While he sometimes lack in variety, he makes up with his aggressive singing and guitar playing, especially in the iconic "Death Letter Blues".
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November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Son House" gives a good overview of the work of Son House - one of my favorite Delta Blues players. While he sometimes lack in variety, he makes up with his aggressive singing and guitar playing, especially in the iconic "Death Letter Blues".
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The number of times I get mistaken for Spider Man - my kid-friendly boy scout buddy 🤨🔍...
#deadpool #happyhalloween 🎃👻 #halloweencostume #detective #neonoir #superhero #marvel
#deadpool #happyhalloween 🎃👻 #halloweencostume #detective #neonoir #superhero #marvel
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The number of times I get mistaken for Spider Man - my kid-friendly boy scout buddy 🤨🔍...
#deadpool #happyhalloween 🎃👻 #halloweencostume #detective #neonoir #superhero #marvel
#deadpool #happyhalloween 🎃👻 #halloweencostume #detective #neonoir #superhero #marvel
With the rise of AI artists online, I feel it'll make live performances more valuable.
To me, AI artistry's an effort to not pay human artists and have more control over the artist (and the art itself).
I wonder if there are alternatives to Spotify out there. Heard of Quboz, but I'm all ears.
To me, AI artistry's an effort to not pay human artists and have more control over the artist (and the art itself).
I wonder if there are alternatives to Spotify out there. Heard of Quboz, but I'm all ears.
October 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
With the rise of AI artists online, I feel it'll make live performances more valuable.
To me, AI artistry's an effort to not pay human artists and have more control over the artist (and the art itself).
I wonder if there are alternatives to Spotify out there. Heard of Quboz, but I'm all ears.
To me, AI artistry's an effort to not pay human artists and have more control over the artist (and the art itself).
I wonder if there are alternatives to Spotify out there. Heard of Quboz, but I'm all ears.
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"All those who can walk away from a book, movie, or play do not realize it's a privilege to dispose of stories. The privilege of being part of a majority, where almost all stories center on them. They live in the luxury of narrative plentitude."
- Việt Thanh Nguyễn, A MAN OF TWO FACES
- Việt Thanh Nguyễn, A MAN OF TWO FACES
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
"All those who can walk away from a book, movie, or play do not realize it's a privilege to dispose of stories. The privilege of being part of a majority, where almost all stories center on them. They live in the luxury of narrative plentitude."
- Việt Thanh Nguyễn, A MAN OF TWO FACES
- Việt Thanh Nguyễn, A MAN OF TWO FACES
Seeing the original schematics for the tricone resonator guitar (first type to exist) helps me appreciate the existence of the single cone ones (i.e., biscuit and Dobro style spider bridge).
Interesting how creativity, corporate rivalry, and hard times lead to such amazing instruments existing 💡📚
Interesting how creativity, corporate rivalry, and hard times lead to such amazing instruments existing 💡📚
October 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Seeing the original schematics for the tricone resonator guitar (first type to exist) helps me appreciate the existence of the single cone ones (i.e., biscuit and Dobro style spider bridge).
Interesting how creativity, corporate rivalry, and hard times lead to such amazing instruments existing 💡📚
Interesting how creativity, corporate rivalry, and hard times lead to such amazing instruments existing 💡📚
"We have a strong psychological tendency to attribute change to intervention, and this makes before-and-after comparisons treacherous." - Sir David Spiegelhalter, THE ART OF STATISTICS: HOW TO LEARN FROM DATA (2021) 📊🔍🤔
#stats #bookquote #correlationdoesntimplycausation #assumptionchecking #data
#stats #bookquote #correlationdoesntimplycausation #assumptionchecking #data
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"We have a strong psychological tendency to attribute change to intervention, and this makes before-and-after comparisons treacherous." - Sir David Spiegelhalter, THE ART OF STATISTICS: HOW TO LEARN FROM DATA (2021) 📊🔍🤔
#stats #bookquote #correlationdoesntimplycausation #assumptionchecking #data
#stats #bookquote #correlationdoesntimplycausation #assumptionchecking #data
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ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
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“As predicted by many activists and civil rights advocates, ICE is increasingly becoming a force tasked with enforcing the political will of the administration and straying further and further from its original mission,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Truthout.org.
truthout.org/articles/tr...
truthout.org/articles/tr...
Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants
ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.
truthout.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“As predicted by many activists and civil rights advocates, ICE is increasingly becoming a force tasked with enforcing the political will of the administration and straying further and further from its original mission,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Truthout.org.
truthout.org/articles/tr...
truthout.org/articles/tr...
"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."
- Arundhati Roy ✊️🖤💛
#quoteoftheweek #solidarity #oppression
- Arundhati Roy ✊️🖤💛
#quoteoftheweek #solidarity #oppression
October 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."
- Arundhati Roy ✊️🖤💛
#quoteoftheweek #solidarity #oppression
- Arundhati Roy ✊️🖤💛
#quoteoftheweek #solidarity #oppression
I'd never though I see a vintage National guitar in person ever. Let alone play one 😲😍
Here's me trying the opening riff of "Death Letter Blues" by Son House on a National biscuit resonator, a Gold Tone spider bridge one, and a National tricone at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA
Here's me trying the opening riff of "Death Letter Blues" by Son House on a National biscuit resonator, a Gold Tone spider bridge one, and a National tricone at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA
September 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'd never though I see a vintage National guitar in person ever. Let alone play one 😲😍
Here's me trying the opening riff of "Death Letter Blues" by Son House on a National biscuit resonator, a Gold Tone spider bridge one, and a National tricone at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA
Here's me trying the opening riff of "Death Letter Blues" by Son House on a National biscuit resonator, a Gold Tone spider bridge one, and a National tricone at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA
I can never imagine the amount of wealth and privilege that would get one to suddenly work only one job "for fun".
Can work have fun moments and comraderie? Yes.
Can work inspire growth? Yes.
At the end of the day, work is still a means to support oneself financially.
Can work have fun moments and comraderie? Yes.
Can work inspire growth? Yes.
At the end of the day, work is still a means to support oneself financially.
September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I can never imagine the amount of wealth and privilege that would get one to suddenly work only one job "for fun".
Can work have fun moments and comraderie? Yes.
Can work inspire growth? Yes.
At the end of the day, work is still a means to support oneself financially.
Can work have fun moments and comraderie? Yes.
Can work inspire growth? Yes.
At the end of the day, work is still a means to support oneself financially.
Practicing my spin on riffs from the classic Delta Blues song "Death Letter Blues" by Son House at Guitar Center.
This Recording King brass biscuit resonator isn't the kind I'd get in the future, but it's not too bad for a budget metal one.
#deltablues #guitarslide #musicpractice #wip
This Recording King brass biscuit resonator isn't the kind I'd get in the future, but it's not too bad for a budget metal one.
#deltablues #guitarslide #musicpractice #wip
September 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Practicing my spin on riffs from the classic Delta Blues song "Death Letter Blues" by Son House at Guitar Center.
This Recording King brass biscuit resonator isn't the kind I'd get in the future, but it's not too bad for a budget metal one.
#deltablues #guitarslide #musicpractice #wip
This Recording King brass biscuit resonator isn't the kind I'd get in the future, but it's not too bad for a budget metal one.
#deltablues #guitarslide #musicpractice #wip
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A post by @ebonyteach.bsky.social made me realize a lot of people don’t know this: Places that were more racially segregated experienced *more* Black lynchings. Segregation in and of itself did not insulate Black people from anti-Black violence, it enabled it.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching - Volume 42 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A post by @ebonyteach.bsky.social made me realize a lot of people don’t know this: Places that were more racially segregated experienced *more* Black lynchings. Segregation in and of itself did not insulate Black people from anti-Black violence, it enabled it.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I'm so happy that I found local guitar shops that sell tricone resonators I could try out!
I've tried spider bridges and biscuits so it's nice to have that option to try tricones.
Pricey, yes, but amazing guitars thatre the stable of blues, country, bluegrass, folk, etc!
I've tried spider bridges and biscuits so it's nice to have that option to try tricones.
Pricey, yes, but amazing guitars thatre the stable of blues, country, bluegrass, folk, etc!
September 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm so happy that I found local guitar shops that sell tricone resonators I could try out!
I've tried spider bridges and biscuits so it's nice to have that option to try tricones.
Pricey, yes, but amazing guitars thatre the stable of blues, country, bluegrass, folk, etc!
I've tried spider bridges and biscuits so it's nice to have that option to try tricones.
Pricey, yes, but amazing guitars thatre the stable of blues, country, bluegrass, folk, etc!
Watching Season 2 of Episode 6 of Peacemaker...I was already nervous before Adebayo decided to clean up Eagly's mess AND walk out the door. Honestly, when the twist came, I was like, "Ah, yes, made sense. Feels so close to another Tuesday in USA" #nospoiler
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Watching Season 2 of Episode 6 of Peacemaker...I was already nervous before Adebayo decided to clean up Eagly's mess AND walk out the door. Honestly, when the twist came, I was like, "Ah, yes, made sense. Feels so close to another Tuesday in USA" #nospoiler
Sometimes, LinkedIn can be just as messy and click-baity of a rabbithole as any other social media app.
I.e., I don't get what "Gen Z stare" is or how it's a big deal? Never heard of it until LinkedIn pushed it around 🤔 🤷🏼♂️
I.e., I don't get what "Gen Z stare" is or how it's a big deal? Never heard of it until LinkedIn pushed it around 🤔 🤷🏼♂️
August 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sometimes, LinkedIn can be just as messy and click-baity of a rabbithole as any other social media app.
I.e., I don't get what "Gen Z stare" is or how it's a big deal? Never heard of it until LinkedIn pushed it around 🤔 🤷🏼♂️
I.e., I don't get what "Gen Z stare" is or how it's a big deal? Never heard of it until LinkedIn pushed it around 🤔 🤷🏼♂️
I journal to practice self-expression, explore different ideas, AND stay in tune with myself better.
In this age of lots of info online and AI, it's so easy to fall in the trap of absorbing all I see that I stop thinking for myself.
Journaling is how I assert agency over myself in response.
In this age of lots of info online and AI, it's so easy to fall in the trap of absorbing all I see that I stop thinking for myself.
Journaling is how I assert agency over myself in response.
August 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I journal to practice self-expression, explore different ideas, AND stay in tune with myself better.
In this age of lots of info online and AI, it's so easy to fall in the trap of absorbing all I see that I stop thinking for myself.
Journaling is how I assert agency over myself in response.
In this age of lots of info online and AI, it's so easy to fall in the trap of absorbing all I see that I stop thinking for myself.
Journaling is how I assert agency over myself in response.
Just learned a new word today - chordophone 🤔 Apparently, it's a fancier word for say, "stringed instruments" (i.e., guitar, violin, banjo, etc)
July 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Just learned a new word today - chordophone 🤔 Apparently, it's a fancier word for say, "stringed instruments" (i.e., guitar, violin, banjo, etc)
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There is an issue with flies coming into the house.
Normal people: gets flypaper or something.
Me:
Normal people: gets flypaper or something.
Me:
June 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
There is an issue with flies coming into the house.
Normal people: gets flypaper or something.
Me:
Normal people: gets flypaper or something.
Me:
"As a leader, it's not what you preach, it's what you tolerate." - Leif Babin
To me, leaders don't just set the expectations. They also set the example on how others should act, including what they choose to act or not act on.
#extremeownership #leadership #bookquote
To me, leaders don't just set the expectations. They also set the example on how others should act, including what they choose to act or not act on.
#extremeownership #leadership #bookquote
May 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"As a leader, it's not what you preach, it's what you tolerate." - Leif Babin
To me, leaders don't just set the expectations. They also set the example on how others should act, including what they choose to act or not act on.
#extremeownership #leadership #bookquote
To me, leaders don't just set the expectations. They also set the example on how others should act, including what they choose to act or not act on.
#extremeownership #leadership #bookquote
I wonder what it'll be like if there's a motivational version of the Hulk where instead of anger making one turn into the Hulk, it's motivation.
STRANGER - "Give up, loser."
ME: "You're making me motivated. You won't like me when I'm motivated." 😄💪
*Transforms into motivated alter ego *
STRANGER - "Give up, loser."
ME: "You're making me motivated. You won't like me when I'm motivated." 😄💪
*Transforms into motivated alter ego *
May 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I wonder what it'll be like if there's a motivational version of the Hulk where instead of anger making one turn into the Hulk, it's motivation.
STRANGER - "Give up, loser."
ME: "You're making me motivated. You won't like me when I'm motivated." 😄💪
*Transforms into motivated alter ego *
STRANGER - "Give up, loser."
ME: "You're making me motivated. You won't like me when I'm motivated." 😄💪
*Transforms into motivated alter ego *