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Thank you to our graduating GRAs for all the hard work they’ve put in since starting with us at the METAlab. We wish them all the best as they move forward in their careers, and remind them that even after commencement tomorrow they will continue to be members of the METAlab family.

‘Tis the season for calling and celebrating with family and friends. Make sure you do so safely with these tips and tricks from our METAlab GRAs.

Remember our Insider Interviews from Spring 2020? We have another one to share with you, this time with Salome Pachkoria, MAIPD/ITED ‘20! See the following slides for information on the work she did with the METAlab, what she’s been up to since, and how her work with us has helped her burgeoning career.

Ever wondered how the METAlab started? Want to know what we’ve been up to since?

Here’s a snapshot of our META (lab) story.

Ever wondered how you can apply data analysis tools to different fields? Here are 5 real-world examples of tools the METALab uses regularly to satisfy your curiosity.

The METALab is now on Instagram! We will continue to share information on what we’re up to, as well as different research and analysis tools, tips, and terminology. If you're also on IG please follow us, and invite your friends!

https://www.instagram.com/metalab_miis/

Why Highly Efficient Leaders Fail If focusing on your to-do list means you aren’t focusing on your employees, that’s a problem.

https://dominicroye.github.io/en/2020/a-very-short-introduction-to-tidyverse/

A very short introduction to Tidyverse | Dominic Royé The ``tidyverse`` universe of packages, a collection of packages specially focused on data science, marked a milestone in R programming. In this post I am going to summarize very briefly the most essential to start in this world. The tidyverse grammar follows a common structure in all functions. The...

https://thomasadventure.blog/posts/how-does-the-pipe-operator-actually-work/

How does the pipe operator actually work? I think it’s fair to say that the pipe operator %>% from the {magrittr} package—made famous by its use in {dplyr}—revolutionized R. Using %>% you can chain together multiple functions to create pipelines for your data. That way you can write highly expressive code and mitigate the need to defi...

confidence_interval

https://macro.cepremap.fr/article/2020-06/economic-indicators/

Reproduce economic indicators from ‘The Economist’ We reproduce part of the economic indicators table from ‘The Economist’ using DBnomics.

https://callingbullsh*t.org/
Looking forward to seeing this title.

Calling Bu****it. Coming August 4th, 2020: Calling Bu****it: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West. Pre-order now.

Cool new toys.

RStudio 1.3 Released Today we’re excited to announce the general release of RStudio 1.3. This release features many major improvements to the IDE, including: Dramatically improved accessibility for sight-impaired users, which also upgrades keyboard navigation, contrast ratios, and visibility for everyone. A real-time ...

https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/05/27/role-of-the-data-scientist/

The Role of the Data Scientist - RStudio Blog A slew of new vendors believe that no-code analytics and visualization tools can replace the role of the traditional data scientist. This brief describes why we believe organizations will demand pro-code data scientists for years to come.

Good coders borrow, great coders steal - Stack Overflow Blog Copying and pasting can be dangerous, but then again, so can many aspects of software development when done incautiously. In this post, I’ll take a look at what code copying actually means for software development, what good code theft means, and the pitfalls of copying badly.

Transmission of the virus through proximity and time.
AKA latent and manifest social transmission networks.

The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them Please read this link to learn about the author and background to these posts. It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have robust data from t...

METAlab movie night this Friday at 5p PST! Signups for $15 Doordash gift cards here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lZ0YEaX8Vb1JwWslyYW0wvjrGw9sFZtB0N8iY0Vqrwg/edit?usp=sharing.
Movie: Explained- Coding episode on Netflix (~20 minutes)

Reminder we have a new Twitter: https://twitter.com/statsMemes

~MS

Pointers for success and pitfalls for avoidance when approaching Survey Design by META Lab Research Assistants
https://sites.miis.edu/metalab/2020/04/29/do-you-know-enough-about-survey-design/

Have you met the META Lab fam? Check out our intro video!

https://sites.miis.edu/metalab/2020/04/20/meet-the-meta-lab-family/

Have your project and time management skills been undermined by the online transition? Welcome to the club!

Visit the META Lab page for our How to Stay Sane series. https://sites.miis.edu/metalab/

Salome Pachkoria, Anna Phillips and Jasmine Wang share tips and tricks for multiple PM tools as well as introduce Slack and Zoom as platforms to enhance your virtual work and study environments.

Stay safe out there but if possible use open-source facemasks and not expensive proprietary ones.

~Rashnutin

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http://www.seascapemodels.org/rstats/2020/04/21/a-case-against-pipes.html

Magrittr pipes, when to use them and when not to...

seascapemodels Marine Science

Got some burning data questions? Drop in Ash's zoom room today for META Lab office hours to guide you to answers!

Hey Guys! I'm so excited to announce that we have updated our official page! We also have added a few posts there to help you go through this painful online transition process. Take a look at the beautiful web page http://sites.miis.edu/metalab/ and we hope you'd like it! Also please leave any comments for us if you have any suggestions!

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