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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Jan 31
NEW: Census.gov has been down for many users since around 5 p.m. ET. I've asked the Census Bureau's public information office what is causing the bureau's website not to load and when they expect it to come back online...

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · Apr 4
Concierto en Aviles!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Jeff Weiner @jlweiner.bsky.social · Feb 5
The CSR comm I'm on just pulled all Diversity F grants from the current review cycle. These apps are reviewed alongside (and by the same criteria) as all other F grants. So, instead of helping these trainees, they will actually be punished by having their grant reviews delayed at least 1 cycle !?!?

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · Feb 5
Note that this goes beyond the "official" CDC SVI done at the tract and county levels only. The development version of the package also allows downloads using the 2018-2022 ACS (github.com/heli-xu/find...).
GitHub - heli-xu/findSVI: Calculate CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index
Calculate CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index. Contribute to heli-xu/findSVI development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · Feb 5
In case the census API were to not work at some point, we have used findSVI to back up all potential combinations of the SVI for all census geographic units (e.g., census block groups, tracts, ZCTAs, CBSAs, etc.) for all available ACS years. You can find that here: zenodo.org/records/1481...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Jan 31
Let's all say it out loud. These people are fascists & this is a fascist take-over of the United States. You can couch your words more carefully, but the speed and ferocity of what is happening now is part-and-parcel of a coup. The GOP in Congress has surrendered. The Dems are out of their depth. 1/

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · Jan 31
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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · Jan 31
Welp. bsky.app/profile/hans...
hansilowang.bsky.social Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Jan 31
NEW: Census.gov has been down for many users since around 5 p.m. ET. I've asked the Census Bureau's public information office what is causing the bureau's website not to load and when they expect it to come back online...

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · Jan 31
The initial goal was to facilitate access to the SVI from R. For very different reasons that is still the goal.

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · Jan 31
If you need a tutorial and example, check here: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
findSVI: an R package to calculate the Social Vulnerability Index at multiple geographical levels
Xu et al., (2024). findSVI: an R package to calculate the Social Vulnerability Index at multiple geographical levels. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(99), 6525, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06525
joss.theoj.org

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · Jan 31
If you need access to the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, folks here had created the findSVI R package to reconstruct it using the Census API (which still works): cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
findSVI: Calculate Social Vulnerability Index for Communities
Developed by CDC/ATSDR (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) serves as a tool to assess the resilience of com...
cran.r-project.org