The first thing a data analyst trainee should learn is that playing with Excel’s functions and tools is a great way to get into trouble when you don’t have an underlying understanding of the fundamental data’s behaviors AND don’t understand the functions and tools core assumptions. This is important. The second or third lesson a …
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Every Day Ends in Wasted Motion
If you want to understand why meat is cheap and slaughterhouses are COVID-19 hotspots, here’s some really good journalism about John Deranamie, 50 year-old survivor of the Liberian civil war, and now COVID-19: He’s one of 3,700 workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, where more than 800 employees have contracted …
COVID-19 Information: Some Longer Reads
Lots of informative pics in this Bored Panda post: Telelens. https://t.co/od5YKi1UVr — Oscar Lamme (@OscarLamme) May 2, 2020 … In the times of the current crisis, keeping a safe distance is key. Even if countries are starting to ease restrictions on quarantine, it doesn’t mean it’s over. But how do we know, from the pictures …
Pandemic Prophet and Profit
In the morning thread, valued commenter “bemused” brought up a recent interview by The Times’ Frank Bruni with Laurie Garrett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist who saw this pandemic coming and now foresees a disturbing post-pandemic future. It’s not a happy read, but it’s definitely worth one of your free clicks, IMO. Garrett doesn’t expect …
COVID IBNR
In insurance, there is a concept of Incurred claims But Not Reported (IBNR). These are claims for services that have been performed by a clinician but the bills have not hit the insurer’s claims system. IBNR is often predictable and can be used to inform reasonable guesses about what is still out there but not …
COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Monday / Tuesday, May 4/5
(Matt Davies via GoComics.com) . Global coronavirus deaths exceed quarter of a million: Reuters tally https://t.co/iKJR7fNvwI pic.twitter.com/tEcIBBEeDq — Reuters (@Reuters) May 5, 2020 For the latest developments around the coronavirus outbreak, follow @Reuters Liveblog https://t.co/cEBwkoEQ5P pic.twitter.com/MSkVCuhFHm — Reuters (@Reuters) May 5, 2020 A substantial majority of people around the world want their governments to prioritise …
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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Saturday/Sunday, July 4-5
Is he…trying to make it look like his signature? pic.twitter.com/WCfJakMIeQ — Jean Grae (@JeanGreasy) July 3, 2020 The White House message this afternoon is that coronavirus is a malicious attack by a foreign power costing more American lives than forty 9/11s, and also it’s just a thing you gotta live with! pic.twitter.com/Rtu7mQ8h8Z — Adam Weinstein …
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