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dgstone.bsky.social
Human, husband, dad, and Jedi like my mother and father before me. Striving to understand. I teach high school computer science and data science. We can do better.
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My colleagues at Pitt and I put together a Medicaid reliance dashboard, drawing on data from @charlesgaba.com @centeronbudget.bsky.social Georgetown and NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard. shiny.crc.pitt.edu/congressiona...

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

I had no idea there were so many chickens in Nashville! Working through geolocation data practice with some awesome tutorials from @datacamp.bsky.social.

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BTW, I published a paper in American Journal of Epidemiology outlining some of the most common fallacies that cause people to misunderstand observational data, or use observational data to mislead others with false claims. It is now open access/freely available academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

Read a fantastically insightful book on Bayesian probability by @tomchivers.bsky.social. Very helpful to me as an educator in understanding and explaining stats and probability concepts to my students. My students are looking for patterns, making predictions, and even designing games...🧵1/

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding—new from @awalkerinla.bsky.social www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...

submitted 41 days ago • 18 comments

TIL Tablesaw exists and I am really torn on which is the cooler library name, that or pandas.

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“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯 www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Students are making images with code in my AP Computer Science Principles classes, and it's a blast to see. They can really go all out with their effort to make their creativity come to life! I am absolutely (and repeatedly) encouraging students to take their creations home and show them off! 1/..

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

TIL that following a technical audiobook while doing chores is... hard. Fantastic book, though, and doing better since I hit a more familiar topic in probability. Following up with text read to review. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...

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Finally got around to building my first choropleth map! Practicing so I can guide my students through making their own. Source: data.cityofchicago.org #chicago #dataviz #data #csed

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