#Estimates

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

In many ways, this should be entirely obvious, but we now have strong evidence that social distancing results in decreased #COVID19 transmission rates. 1/7 Modeling analyses can estimate changes in

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

This suggests that the US is now somewhat above the median in COVID-19 case detection. Our testing is better than much of Europe, and we're picking up a higher share

Jason Thompson - The 2nd 👋

Agent_Jase

How long until this might all be over in Australia and New Zealand? Our research team's best estimates:https://jasonthompsondotblog.wpcomstaging.com/2020/04/24/knifes-edge/ And even better with the right x-axis...

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HUGE EXCESS DEATHS—global #COVID19 death toll is 2x higher than official data—6.9 mil worldwide. Deaths:US —905kIndia —654kMexico —617kBrazil —595kRussia —593kLikely hit 1918 Spanish flu death count by end of pandemic,

Daniel Ahmad

ZhugeEX

This isn't too unusual for the console spaceThe console is sold at a loss initially & usually for some time afterThe platform holder recoups the investment in hardware via its

Nat Henry

NatMakesMaps

Is it just me, or does this widely-shared figure from Monday's @nytimes cover story on herd immunity WAY overstate actual COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the US?:https://twitter.com/AdamUren/status/1389188406731706371 The figure just cite

James McEnaney

MrMcEnaney

There's a massive hole in this information that parents deserve to know.Yes, teachers will subject estimates for student grades. But the SQA may then change them based on previous years'

Ben Miller

EduBenM

The new Murray-led education funding bill is a very good deal for public colleges in particular. I estimate they'd get 81% of the non-MSI money, which is 10 percentage points

Santiago

svpino

If you want to make money as a Software Developer, you need to get good at estimating work.A good estimate is the foundation for a profitable project. (There's more

Karl Dierenbach

Dierenbach

Fun fact #2:Colorado's COVID-19 Modeling Group estimates that if we stopped social distancing and stopped wearing masks, 13,370,000 Coloradans would become infected with Covid-19.Which is weird, as Colorado only has

Robbie Andrew

robbie_andrew

1/ New paper published. “Timely estimates of India's annual and monthly fossil CO₂ emissions.”Short thread.https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2411/2020/essd-12-2411-2020.html 2/ India pledged under the Paris Agreement to redu

Jon Mellon

jon_mellon

Just updated my weather IV working paper:tldr: all IV weather papers represent potential exclusion restriction violations for all other IV weather papers. I find 1̵3̵7̵ 176 possible exclusion restriction violationshttps://osf.io/preprint

Professor Karol Sikora

ProfKarolSikora

There has been a lot of focus on the two week wait figures for cancer patients, and it is good that they are improving but the situation is worse than

Hello Win Column

rangeRanalytics

Since I’ve seen a lot of talk about Lance Lynn trade value, I figured it was worth throwing together a few quick numbers/estimates for the subject. Thread time! For projecting

Shubham Badyal

skyesins

Thread on USA demographic estimates- @porbotialora 1. Sources- US Census, Pew, Hadoop, CIA 2. USA RELIGION DATA OVERALL 2020 %CHRISTIAN- 59.5UNAFFILIATED-

Toby Sanger

toby_sanger

New report by @PBO_DPB requested by @MPJulian on wealth tax confirms it woud generate signficant revenues: $5.6 B in 1st year at 1% of assets over $20 million on fortunes