Steph Eaneff
@stepheaneff.bsky.social
Data scientist, home gardener, and policy enthusiast. Independent consultant and lecturer at UC Berkeley. I love walkable cities, data viz, and coffee. stepheaneff.com
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really important and cool study, with huge implications (even as just one data point) for both climate and public health advocacy 👇
1/8. You might have heard that it’s a bad idea to talk about (racial) inequality and/or equity-enhancing programs and policies. Over the past few years, both scholars and pundits have argued those messages undermine support for important policies. Well, that conclusion may be a bit premature.
January 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
really important and cool study, with huge implications (even as just one data point) for both climate and public health advocacy 👇
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Fascinating case study of tiny regulatory differences producing small but potentially consequential effects on construction :
What can appear as a minor norm can have a major impact on design.
French fire safety regulations allows for shorter landings and longer run compared to italian ones, allowing designers to draw more compact design for fixed stairs.
French fire safety regulations allows for shorter landings and longer run compared to italian ones, allowing designers to draw more compact design for fixed stairs.
January 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Fascinating case study of tiny regulatory differences producing small but potentially consequential effects on construction :
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In case anyone is interested in modifying this for their own purposes, I just put it up on Github: github.com/evanpeck/bar...
December 28, 2024 at 2:08 AM
In case anyone is interested in modifying this for their own purposes, I just put it up on Github: github.com/evanpeck/bar...
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Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.
Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?
So, I visualized it myself!
Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?
So, I visualized it myself!
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.
Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?
So, I visualized it myself!
Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?
So, I visualized it myself!
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If you’re buying holiday gifts today, you are demonstrating why Same Day Registration is so important.
December 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
If you’re buying holiday gifts today, you are demonstrating why Same Day Registration is so important.
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This is a good example where the "feel" of data can really vary by a simple chart change - from pie chart to bar graph.
While the 🥧 pie chart looks like 3 roughly-equal groups of people, the "didn't vote" group jumps out in a 📊 bar graph
Same data plotted below: barvpie.netlify.app?numbers=31.5...
While the 🥧 pie chart looks like 3 roughly-equal groups of people, the "didn't vote" group jumps out in a 📊 bar graph
Same data plotted below: barvpie.netlify.app?numbers=31.5...
December 22, 2024 at 1:39 AM
This is a good example where the "feel" of data can really vary by a simple chart change - from pie chart to bar graph.
While the 🥧 pie chart looks like 3 roughly-equal groups of people, the "didn't vote" group jumps out in a 📊 bar graph
Same data plotted below: barvpie.netlify.app?numbers=31.5...
While the 🥧 pie chart looks like 3 roughly-equal groups of people, the "didn't vote" group jumps out in a 📊 bar graph
Same data plotted below: barvpie.netlify.app?numbers=31.5...
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
“I want people to understand that we’re not just a keeper of old stuff; rather libraries are using technology to innovate on a regular basis, to figure out better, faster, and more computationally ready ways of making [these records] available to researchers.”
Here’s the technical behind-the-scenes of the digitization of Japanese American incarceration records
Data Science Helps Bancroft Library Organize Historic Japanese-American Confinement Records
When the Bancroft Library received over 100,000 Japanese-American internment “individual record” forms (WRA-26) from the National Archives and Records Administration after World War II, they had no...
www.ischool.berkeley.edu
December 21, 2024 at 5:04 PM
“I want people to understand that we’re not just a keeper of old stuff; rather libraries are using technology to innovate on a regular basis, to figure out better, faster, and more computationally ready ways of making [these records] available to researchers.”
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Honestly, they buried the lede.
The really cool thing is that the professional will be 110% male in 2510.
The really cool thing is that the professional will be 110% male in 2510.
Jessica Grose in NYTimes: "The number of male registered nurses in the U.S. has nearly tripled since the early 2000s." During that time the number of RNs increased by 2 million, so men's share grew from 7% to 12%. We are right on track for 50% men by 2210.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/o...
December 20, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Honestly, they buried the lede.
The really cool thing is that the professional will be 110% male in 2510.
The really cool thing is that the professional will be 110% male in 2510.
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As a pediatrician in Louisiana, I want to put this in greater context. We have one of the highest rates of poverty in the US. The poorest health outcomes in nearly every indicator. Breaking down our public health infrastructure, instead of investing in and building it up, is shameful and reckless.
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:57 PM
As a pediatrician in Louisiana, I want to put this in greater context. We have one of the highest rates of poverty in the US. The poorest health outcomes in nearly every indicator. Breaking down our public health infrastructure, instead of investing in and building it up, is shameful and reckless.
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I got up close with a Portuguese man-o-war and my god these animals are shockingly beautiful.
May 3, 2023 at 11:08 PM
I got up close with a Portuguese man-o-war and my god these animals are shockingly beautiful.
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“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
December 16, 2024 at 10:49 PM
“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
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I love all god's pizzas and I shan't be baited into an argument about regional pizza styles on our internet on this day in two thousand and twenty four.
December 16, 2024 at 9:47 PM
I love all god's pizzas and I shan't be baited into an argument about regional pizza styles on our internet on this day in two thousand and twenty four.
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I see so many people twisting themselves into illogical knots in attempts to be clever when they could just communicate with earnest clarity.
December 16, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I see so many people twisting themselves into illogical knots in attempts to be clever when they could just communicate with earnest clarity.
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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Of course they do. Statistical models can work this way too. The algorithms, in this sense, are not the problem. The problems lie in the foolish ways some try to apply them, and a broad lack of interest in actually evaluating whether the predictions they generate are clinically useful.
The authors point out that AI models base their predictions on sneaky shortcut effects all the time; they're just easier to identify when the conclusions (beer drinking) are clearly spurious.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The risk of shortcutting in deep learning algorithms for medical imaging research - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The risk of shortcutting in deep learning algorithms for medical imaging research
www.nature.com
December 16, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Of course they do. Statistical models can work this way too. The algorithms, in this sense, are not the problem. The problems lie in the foolish ways some try to apply them, and a broad lack of interest in actually evaluating whether the predictions they generate are clinically useful.
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I enjoy doing timelapses, this Summer I grew pumpkins for the 1st time and put cameras on them to document their growth.
Here a pumpkin vine moves as it grows, I find plants to be fascinating and learnt so much from the pumpkin plants which grew to 30ft long and took over 1/3 of the garden.
Here a pumpkin vine moves as it grows, I find plants to be fascinating and learnt so much from the pumpkin plants which grew to 30ft long and took over 1/3 of the garden.
December 8, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I enjoy doing timelapses, this Summer I grew pumpkins for the 1st time and put cameras on them to document their growth.
Here a pumpkin vine moves as it grows, I find plants to be fascinating and learnt so much from the pumpkin plants which grew to 30ft long and took over 1/3 of the garden.
Here a pumpkin vine moves as it grows, I find plants to be fascinating and learnt so much from the pumpkin plants which grew to 30ft long and took over 1/3 of the garden.
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Y'all there is a legit taco truck working late nights at North Berkeley BART. it's a miracle.
December 9, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Y'all there is a legit taco truck working late nights at North Berkeley BART. it's a miracle.
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Bluesky wrapped: a 🧵 of my posts that generated the most conversation on this site.
Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the U.S. Cows roam over a lot of land!
But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.
Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the U.S. Cows roam over a lot of land!
But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.
December 12, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Bluesky wrapped: a 🧵 of my posts that generated the most conversation on this site.
Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the U.S. Cows roam over a lot of land!
But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.
Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the U.S. Cows roam over a lot of land!
But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.
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NOVEMBER We did a lot of kick-ass election work, but I think this one was my favorite, because it took something we kind of knew instinctively existed -- our increased polarization -- and made it visually striking in a way I didn't expect.
www.startribune.com/where-minnes...
www.startribune.com/where-minnes...
December 11, 2024 at 11:16 PM
NOVEMBER We did a lot of kick-ass election work, but I think this one was my favorite, because it took something we kind of knew instinctively existed -- our increased polarization -- and made it visually striking in a way I didn't expect.
www.startribune.com/where-minnes...
www.startribune.com/where-minnes...
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Nope. Absolutely the fuck not. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
December 11, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Nope. Absolutely the fuck not. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
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Our writer @lisacmuth.bsky.social has written tons of good advice on colors in data vis — but you don't need to become a color theory expert just to create your first chart. Today: 17 (!) practical tips for picking out your color palette 🎨
How to find & create good color palettes - Datawrapper Blog
Tools and approaches for finding, coming up with, and extending a color palette.
blog.datawrapper.de
December 11, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Our writer @lisacmuth.bsky.social has written tons of good advice on colors in data vis — but you don't need to become a color theory expert just to create your first chart. Today: 17 (!) practical tips for picking out your color palette 🎨
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They haven't invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it.
December 10, 2024 at 1:50 AM
They haven't invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it.