Just got my first positive covid test. 😞

Feeling fine except a sore throat so far. What’s the word on whether i should get paxlovid?

#jsm2024

Today at #jsm2024, we heard from Anirban Chetia and @healthandstats about data.table, in the session on Big In-Memory Data in R.

Such a great discussion with a very knowlegeable crowd, led by the one and only @michaelchirico !

🦭🦭🦭

"If you are in the year 2024 and you are storing data on your local machine, you should be using parquet files."

- @jonkeane , calling me out in my own #jsm2024 session 😂

Thank you for the fantastic talk, Jon, I'm sold on arrow and will use it 🔜

#jsm2024 just heard a panel question about how to use social media to responsibly communicate statistics.

reply included "when twitter was really big... " anecdote

#jsm2024 my “plans” for today:

8:30 Modern Statistical Inference
10:30 Data-Informed Policymaking: Statisticians and Data Scientists Building & Communicating Evidence
2 posters!
4 Deming Lecture
5:30 Joint Computing and Graphics Section Mixer
6p women’s caucus mixer

Whew! Hope to make some friends! I’ll be the one with the purple hair and the mask. Oh right, and today is dinosaur dress day

Join us for the Joint Computing and Graphics Section Mixer at #JSM2024

📅 Tuesday, August 6th
🕔 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
📍 Hyatt Regency Portland, Room H-Columbia 2
📢 Open to all JSM attendees (JOIN US!)

Enjoy appetizers, drinks, a prize drawing, and exciting announcements/awards.

We're also grateful for the generous support from our sponsors, Posit and NORC. Additionally, we thank CRC Press, O'Reilly, Cambridge University Press, Springer, Stat, JMP, NCSS, and Penfield for providing door prizes.

Loving this framing of where Data Science "sits" among other disciplinesz

(from: Brianna Heggeseth at Macalaster, couldn't find her on here)

#jsm2024