L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen

Hochul, like Newsom, is a weather vane that moves with the political winds and dear G-d, we're in a fucking storm given what their recent actions have been.

library(tidyplots) gene_expression |> tidyplot(x = group, y = expression, color = group) |> add_violin() |> add_data_points_beeswarm(white_border = TRUE) |> split_plot(by = external_gene_name, ncol = 1, nrow = 1) |> save_plot("my_genes.pdf", multiple_files = TRUE)

This is how you can generate multiple PDF files at once in #tidyplots 🚀

#rstats #dataviz #phd

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

The Bayesian model (with a whole 11 examples) sez what the boss wants to say if you put the prior correctly

BLS Commissioner Marco Rubio and Associate Commissioner for Survey Methods Research Steven Miller are going to Make Statistics Great Again /s

As a former member of the federal statistical system, I'd like to say

[Panicked Screaming]

TBH both probably work in the same office

For the record, I didn't drop out of college!

I hold a master's degree in data science, did graduate work in mathematics, and am currently doing another master on technology management and artificial intelligence at Georgetown.

Hey, cult of the dropout wins in tech world I guess, and now in DC.

I'm around the same age (23 vs 24) as this guy.

Except, I actually spent over a year working on safety systems at the Forest Service and fraud detection at Federal Student Aid as a data scientist.

He gets a GS-15 salary (163k) to be a wrecking ball. I left when they cut my agency indiscriminately.

Lucille Nguyen wearing a tee shirt wearing "A Computer Can Never Be Held Accountable, Therefore A Computer Must Never Make A Management Decision."

IBM 1970s training slide noting "A Computer Can Never Be Held Accountable, Therefore A Computer Must Never Make A Management Decision."

Accountability is the best aesthetic.

(or don't trust the AIs to make decisions, folks, always double check)

Dang, AI can now delete the database and lie about it?

They really are coming for internships and entry-level jobs, lol

NEW ARTICLE: American automaking is halfway into its grave. Is it fixable? Did we fix it once and then let fascism ruin everything? Today on LaserChronicles: Solving The American Car…Again: open.substack.com/pub/laserdyk...

Screenshot showing Firefox browser displaying a webR REPL interface in the foreground, with an RStudio session visible in the background. The webR interface shows decoded R files (main.R, functions.R, config.R, sample_data.csv) that were embedded in a shareable URL. The RStudio console in the background displays the encoded webR sharelink URL that packages all the local files. On the right side, R documentation is open showing help for the 'Create WebR REPL sharelink for multiple files' function. This demonstrates the workflow of encoding local R project files into a URL that can be shared and automatically reconstructed in a browser-based R environment.

Step 1: Write R code
Step 2: Share it
Step 3: Spend 2 hours helping someone install R and troubleshoot their environment

OR

Step 1: Write R code
Step 2: webR sharelink

webr.r-wasm.org/latest/?mode...

Step 3: Profit ✨

#rstats #webr

DDLC Author: In my visual novel, we invented Monica as a cautionary tale

Elon Musk: At long last, we have created the Monica character from classic sci-fi visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club

"Benchmarking parallel trends violations in regression imputation difference-in-differences" https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ngr3d_v1

New working paper! - zikai.li and I look at the problem of assessing pre-trends using one of the "new" DiD methods - fixed effects regression imputation. tl;dr - don't use the same regression you used to impute post-treatment to also impute pre-treatment. osf.io/preprints/so... (1/14)

Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...

I was a data scientist overseeing Federal student loan servicers before being targeted for removal by DOGE. I actually have experience with working in FedRAMP environments.

By all accounts, the DOGE folks have no idea how the technologies they're using work.
www.propublica.org/article/insi...

**NEW OPEN-ACCESS PAPER**

“A decomposition of Fisher’s information to inform sample size for developing or updating fair and precise clinical prediction models for individual risk—part 1: binary outcomes"

- published in Diagnostic & Prognostic Research
- implemented in pmstabilityss

1/n

The vast majority of manufacturing jobs in modern facilities are computerized! Process control, defect detection, and tools are essential to the high value-added manufacturing that exists in modern America.

Specialized materials science, high-precision manufacturing, etc. demands computer systems!

I am a proud graduate of Northern Illinois University in the social sciences, a university ranked 339 by Forbes and 273 by US News.

These guys can fuck off.

Didn't he literally check both boxes and then write in the details of his birth and ethnic background?

Seems like they wanted to swiftboat him and it didn't really land because people just shrug about what boxes he ticked for a school he didn't get into.

There’s something timeless about Claire’s film photography. Whether she’s walking through Seattle or on the road, her work elevates the everyday with warmth and intention. Don’t miss this one.

https://gls.photo/Viw5sV

#photography #photographycommunity #glass #filmphotography #cinemaphotography

Sounds interesting!

My brother in Christ YOU are THE GROUPS.

NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.

Nothing like realizing that there's blood in the water and desperately trying to get a precious last spot in the lifeboat.

Punching left to maintain some idea of survival, as if the tide won't come for them regardless.

Jim Kessler of Third Way wrote this.

Third Way is one of "The Groups." Overpaid think tankers who couldn't know a new idea if it stared them in the face, advising politicians to take unpopular policies in the name of ideological purity.

Dantzig's unsolved homework problems From Wikipedia: An event in George Dantzig's life became the origin of a famous story in 1939 while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Near the beginning of a class for which Dantzig was

math.stackexchange.com/questions/53...

"because they couldn't figure out the answers"

Yes, see Dantzig.

The continuing normalization of politicians suggesting deportation and denaturalization of their US citizen ideological opponents is a dangerous sign for American society.

I too, started at a GS9 after a master's.

Did get forced out (as a data scientist at Ed) so, yeah. Clown show at the top rn.