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Ebola data from situation reports vs patient database
This morning the World Health Organization released downloadable, machine-readable data (yay!) of the number of Ebola cases at the county level (available here). This release is particularly special,...
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I'm happy to report that I successfully defended my PhD this month! I still have some odds and ends to complete, including finishing the two courses I'm taking, but for all intents and purposes I've...
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Many months ago I promised to write about how I organize my scientific literature horde. The process I've developed works really well for me, and it successfully got me through dissertation writing. I...
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In a recent article published in the Journal of Global Health, Jared Jones argues that anthropology has been misused as a tool to "other" people in Ebola-stricken regions. Jones suggests that rather...
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During the summer I began converting Ebola situation reports (sitreps) from PDF to a text format. The reports had critical information like the number of new Ebola cases, how many people were in...
View ArticleOriginal WHO Statement on Ebola REsponse
For reasons unknown, the WHO posted and then heavily redacted their leadership statement on Ebola response and WHO reforms. The original statement is embedded below. The current version is here.
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Today I spent a long time trying to convince LaTeX that I wanted my bibliographies to have section numbers, and to appear in my table of contents. Apparently bibtex and the article class do not allow...
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Outbreak data, sonified
Several months ago I heard a fascinating segment on NPR about how astronomers process data by turning it into sound. I thought I knew my data inside and out, but never had I conceptualized it as sound....
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Are you on track for a Nobel Prize?
My 25th birthday is upon me, so naturally I want to make sure I'm on track. A 2011 paper in PNAS by Jones & Weinberg on Age Dynamics in Scientific Creativity was quite insightful. They find that in...
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Make epidemiology great again
I've been working on a new project lately that I'm very excited about. I recently launched Episkills, an initiative to teach epidemiologists to code. Learning to code completely changed how I thought...
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