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Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
🎉 R scholarship applications open on January 20!
If your team (government or nonprofit) works in applied epidemiology in a low- or middle-income country, you could get access to our Intro to R course and Support Desk! Details: appliedepi.org/training/scho…
#Rstats #epitwitter
Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
Day 9: Where do R version names come from?
The current version is 4.4.2: Pile of Leaves. Check yours by running R.version on your console.
Internet chat suggests these names are all inspired by the Peanuts comic. And sure enough…
#r #rstats #charliebrown #peanuts 🥜
Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
How did social mixing change in December? 👥
#CoMix data shows levels were comparable to those seen during the second lockdown, says @Jarvis_Stats 📉
More in @FT 👇 on.ft.com/3GdD1dT #COVID19 @cmmid_lshtm @EpiPose
Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
I'm just a girl, standing in front of R, asking for the write.csv() default to include row.names = FALSE.
Latest report on what we know about Omicron so far. More to come soon.
NEW: @UKHSA Variant Technical Briefing
Technical Briefing 33
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Updated Omicron Risk Assessment
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Honestly what epic women I work with! @kallmemeg brings sense to twitter but also to the endless covid work within UKHSA
Honoured & humbled to be included in the 2021 #Nature10 list alongside a group of truly incredible scientists
It’s been a privilege to play a role in the pandemic & challenge received wisdom about the role of civil servants
Alt caption: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
NEW: Omicron Variant report from UKHSA
Technical Briefing 31 - Omicron Variant (VOC-21NOV-01) assets.publishing.service.go…
Updated Omicron Risk Assessment assets.publishing.service.go…
Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
The Omicron timeline is incredibly condensed, the speed of science and communication mindbogglingly fast. This is what I have so far 🧵
23/11 - Tom Peacock tweets about a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 genotypes with many mutations
24/11 - South Africa reports B.1.1529 to WHO
Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
MapAction continues to respond to the #HaitiEarthquake with #dataanalysis, visualisation and data gathering both in person and remotely. We are working with @Tearfund and @UNOCHA's #UNDAC A&A cell.
ALT Expert MapAction volunteer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
NEW: people worry when they hear "40% of hospitalisations are fully vaxxed", but this chart shows that's actually good news.
The more people you vaccinate, the higher their share of hospitalisations, but the *total* number in hospital is a fraction of what it would otherwise be
Nice tweet by @IsaacATFlorence a couple weeks ago to remind us that “surveillance of outbreaks” in England is actually more “surveillance of outbreaks that are prioritised, managed, and then recorded”. Too many steps removed to use this data as evidence of transmission risk!
Paula Bianca Blomquist retweeted
The description of genomic analyses in this piece about the spread of the Delta variant in the UK has major inaccuracies, and hindsight bias. 🧵
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New variant tech briefing published today! assets.publishing.service.go…
Today's R #tweetorial: The construction of this epicurve-in-an-epicurve, our first plot showing the increasing number of #DeltaVariant cases detected using sequencing AND genotyping. #Rstats #epitwitter
There you go, more combined plots, in a different way from the patchwork package I shared last time. Props to my colleague Soeren Metelmann who wrote most of this one.
I’m really proud of these tech briefings. We are ~40 scientists across many teams, working intensely to push out the latest and most useful data weekly. It is a fantastic collaborative effort and exactly what I hoped I’d be doing one day. #Science!