Richard Bamattre

Richard Bamattre

@bamattre.bsky.social

Local government data science lead. Not so recent PhD in Education. Data viz, machine learning, and data for social good. https://github.com/bamattre

585 Followers 526 Following 226 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 days ago
A map of the United States with weather advisory and there are two dozen colors on the bottom and a lot of them are beige

Why would you do this with a map? I don't know if we're getting lake wind, a fire, or dust - everything is beige

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3 weeks ago
Two Eton dress shirts, with Goodwill price tags for 7 and 9 dollars

Quick reminder to go thrifting every once in a while, you might find something

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1 month ago

Who thinks the Super Bowl halftime would have been slightly better if Benito tossed a roll of paper towels to a kid?

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1 month ago
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

"ICE is using facial recognition programs and using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. Agents are tapping into a database [Palantir] that combines data to identify real-time locations for individuals" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

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1 month ago

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

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1 month ago
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AI-generated data contamination erodes pathological variability and diagnostic reliability Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop where future models are increasingly at risk of training on uncurated AI ...

"AI is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop [that] drives a rapid erosion of pathological variability and diagnostic reliability...this renders AI generated documentation clinically useless after just two generations" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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1 month ago

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...

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1 month ago
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Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

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ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

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Clergy members arrested at MSP while protesting ICE in Minneapolis Dozens of faith leaders were arrested while protesting at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Friday, organizers say, as part of an effort to call for an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

Clergy members arrested at MSP while protesting ICE in Minneapolis - CBS Minnesota share.google/HBHuA9uHTc7N...

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1 month ago
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Videos show dozens of incidents of immigration agents using life-threatening tactics.

In nearly 20 cases, agents appear to use neck restraints that the Department of Homeland Security prohibits unless there is a threat of deadly or serious harm.

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Vortex polaire

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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

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1 month ago

The temperature is currently-9, the windchill is -24. Very proud to be a born and raised Minnesotan today.

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Trump's immigration erosion worries his team Some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach — though it's unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.

Very ironic but quite inspiring if Minnesota is the state that can melt ICE www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...

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1 month ago

Someone has been looking too much at Mercador projection maps

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1 month ago

Noem: the paid protestors in Minnesota.

Minnesota:

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2 months ago
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

This breakdown confirms what anyone who looked at the video could see: that the DHS account was an obvious lie.
*The agent put was not in her path, was not in danger.
*He also fires *after* the car is moving away from him.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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2 months ago

my heart is just completely broken for this woman, killed trying to protect her community and her friends, and for all the people of Minneapolis, who always seems to unfairly caught in the crosshairs of our national malaise

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2 months ago
Car bumper sticker which appears to say fear is a liar but it's cursive and hard to read

I'm not judging, I just can't read this

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2 months ago
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Data Analyst, Principal The Health and Human Services department is seeking a Principal Data Analyst to join the Data and Analytics team to generate actionable insights for the Child Support Services area. In this position, ...

And we're hiring! Data analyst role in a big team of data nerds, with a focus on Child Support data. Impactful role, great team members, solid benefits. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/henn... #hiring #databs

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2 months ago
A watercolor drawing of an office with a duck, panda, polar bear, and narwhal

It's funny how I can see this and instantly think "Ok, this is about dataframes in Python"

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3 months ago

Wait there's another function that removes strings and handles multiple ones but you can only use single characters 🤦‍♂️

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3 months ago

Use PowerBI for data cleaning - they say

Text.Replace(Text.Replace(Text.Replace(Text.Replace(Text.Replace(Text.Replace([Source.Name], "Excel Document_", ""), ".xlsx", "") & "_01", "_", "-"), "B", ""), "Copy of", ""), "Extra Copy", "")

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3 months ago
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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

The Trump Administration making an unnecessary stand for Times New Roman is so, so telling www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

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3 months ago
Tiktok data privacy settlement has sent you $0.91 USD

I 💜 class action

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