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Blog makeover; code switching (R & Python); field epidemiology toolkit; our new AI overlords

Blog makeover; code-switching (R & Python); field epidemiology toolkit; our new AI overlords

29 Mar 20232 min read

  • Updated the blog with a new theme (Tiddlywiki Captivate theme), instead of getting a haircut; I like my new online presence anyway, and no one sees the physical me very much these days
  • Was pleasantly surprised by how much affection I still have for Python, and how easy the reticulate package makes combining R and Python in RStudio
  • Newly dumped into the blog: the text of a Field Epidemiology Toolkit document I wrote most of years ago, just so that is there somewhere (NB: some of it is a bit dated, written at a time when epidemiologists were still a bit sniffy about online questionnaires, and used neolithic tools like EpiData)
  • A lot of my non-meeting time has been filled with meetings recently so I haven’t done any exciting global health informatics things, but I did join a good webinar on getting data into DHIS 2 by SMS and while doing some routine maintenance on my demo versions I managed to accidentally send some of my tweaks to the developers
  • Embedded a couple of cool things I like looking at into the blog: Command line weather forecast and a literary clock - all someone else’s cool work
  • Still playing around with ChatGPT and all the shiny new AI tools
  • Am finally realising I might need to learn the tidyverse if I am going to stay involved in teaching R…

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