This past week, Stanford hospital administrators used an algorithm to decide who should be in the first group to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. It didn't go well. https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1340015667114733569?s=20 The algorithm's output clearly didn't prioritize frontline workers, including the ~1,300 hospital residents who work closely with COVID-19 patients. Only about 7 of the 5,000 available first-round… Continue reading On Stanford’s COVID-19 Vaccination Algorithm
An Intake Form for Data Requests
N=1: My Experience with Motherhood in Tech
Over the past year, I’ve gone through pregnancy, experienced childbirth, took maternity leave, went back to work (while pumping), and worked from home while taking care of a baby during a pandemic. It’s been quite a ride, and while I still love tech and data science and don’t have any plans to change the general… Continue reading N=1: My Experience with Motherhood in Tech
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Field Notes: Building Data Dictionaries
The scariest ghost stories I know take place when the history of data -- how it’s collected, how it’s used, and what it’s meant to represent -- becomes an oral history, passed down as campfire stories from one generation of analysts to another like a spooky game of telephone. These stories include eerie phrases like… Continue reading Field Notes: Building Data Dictionaries