#DATA

Aaron Sojourner

aaronsojourner

16.8 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment insurance in the last 3 weeks. Another 6.6m new claims for unemployment insurance for the week ending 4/4 and the prior week

Kris Karnauskas

OceansClimateCU

I'm not certain this is caused by #COVID19 but there have only been two years since 1975 when CO2 rose less since the first of the year. Please don't misunderstand.

Steak-umm

steak_umm

unfortunately most data exceptions are promoted with an agenda and propped up by grifters, provocateurs, or useful idiots. skepticism is healthy, but more skeptical weight should be applied to self-proclaimed

Lukas Engelmann

engelmal81

We really need to talk about #history, dear Data-will-safe-the-future-folks. This is a ridiculous take and stunningly disconnected from all the brilliant debates on history of data-science / history of #bigdata

Nick Pickles

nickpickles

This is a great example of post-Cambridge Analytica data reporting that just fails to do the issue, the concerns or the public policy issue any service whatsoever.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-government-using-confidential-patient-

Justin Hart

justin_hart

1/ OK. B/c you guys are all freaking out you need to pull back from your worship of @COVID19Tracking and get down into the details where the devil is! Don't

Adina Williams

adinamwilliams

Recently came across a quick read from @laroyo & @cawelty (2015) in AI Magazine on 7 "myths" about data collection. Their perspective is still worth thinking about b/c...1/10 -Many of

David Eads

eads

We issued a correction to our ZIP code lookup tool: Suburban Cook County was misidentified as all of Cook County. Thanks to long-time Chicago civic data nerd @joshkalov for catching

Michael Veale

mikarv

I suspect students in England will make a very large number of subject access requests under the GDPR to schools from tomorrow for their teacher-estimated grade as well as rank-order

Heather Burns

WebDevLaw

This is a thread for those of you who say coders and developers should take no role in politics. Those of you who watched my #WCLDN talk last year already

Jack Robinson

FeralJack_

Finer Details Twitter: What’s the distinction between “Precision” and “Accuracy”?? Answer first off your head, then you can check google. Deal? Here’s the answer: Precision: Refers to how tightly clustered

Johnny 🌱🌹

JohnnyxAro

An ACLED report was released showing that 93% of #BLM protests between May 26 & August 22 have been peaceful.In contrast, authorities have used force in over 54% of the

paper_potato

da_667

so. lemme get this straight. I'm supposed to believe. That some dude at a computer shop had hunter biden's water damaged laptop. That they then submitted the drive to Mr.

Bill Fitzgerald

funnymonkey

We have been hearing a lot about privacy and security issues with Zoom - and deservedly so.The myriad issues that have been documented with Zoom are real, and never should

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

I’m not sure public realizes we still fill out death certificates on paper. Yup. Handwritten. No drop-down lists, no true standardization, no care to improve epidemiology. There are chart extractors

Dr. Vukosi Marivate

vukosi

Just from an economic perspective. This open public data conundrum in South Africa is costing us a lot of money as citizens. It is also costing money when it comes