Olivia Guest @olivia@scholar.social

New blog post!

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Why women in psychology can't program

"About two months ago my brother, who works in data science on social psychology data, asked me why his colleagues, who are women and have PhDs in psychology, cannot code"

http://neuroplausible.com/programming

Holy shit, you all! Thank you!

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> 100 comp cog modelers! 🤯

http://compcog.science

Please continue to boost and add: queer ppl, disabled ppl, gender minorities, ethnic minorities, neuroatypical ppl, & whoever else I'm forgetting — all minorities in modeling. 💞

@olivia When I did one unit in data science, IBM SPSS was prescribed as the software to use. I was talking to a friend who is interested in data science and she mentioned doing that, plus some stuff around C and Arduino (and, not sure what else, maybe SQL also). But I agree that more coding units would be very good.

@DarckCrystale @olivia Nothing so well formulated yet, no: Just that "Scratch Junior" is a really nice entry-point with more ready-to-go media and sprites for kids on Android. For my older girl I've started her out in Jupyter Notebook, just going through some concepts so far.

@olivia This makes me so mad. Having three daughters, I see more than ever how early the signalling begins. "Boy's" Clothes have computers, binary digits, circuit shapes. Girls get fucking Unicorns.
I've been teaching my 7-year-old a little Python and she loves it, and is clearly capable of understanding the abstractions. My 5-y-o plays Scratch Junior and loves it. Kids are kids.

@olivia I'm about to take over support for Psychology at my library, and I'm going to include coding and stats support. Thank you.

@socrates I feel empowered to make this the kind of space that owns and lives these values - and it's great to know that the other people here have signed up for that too. Thanks to @olivia for bringing me in here - it was her happiness at finding such a space here that got me to join.

So, thanks ya'll!

@bthall @olivia slightly late to the party here, apologies... I saw those slides too (courtesy of hspter@twitter), and found them fascinating.

However, I'm not really a notebook user, so as an R user I gotta ask - is there a big win over something like a Shiny Gadget/webapp that can be packaged up, shared, and run in RStudio? Seems like that gets the interactivity without some of the headaches... But maybe I'm missing the point?

@gwmngilfen @olivia I'm not familiar with the R and shiny tech to say yes or no. But at one point I researched which language supported easily runnable interactive elements and the Python and notebooks route seemed much better than R and Shiny, which seemed to still require running things somehow or hosting the notebooks on a server. Mybinder.org lets any user access a notebook with interactive elements and interact there, or a user can download that same notebook and run the exact same code on their machine just by opening it. My impression is that with Shiny, as you said, it requires additional steps to run the thing if you opt to download it and run it yourself - a burden that I felt was too significant for my target audience, the barely tech literate or patient.

visualization hot take: animated plots tend to hide most of the data. either follow follow tufte’s “above all else, just show the data” or give the audience control over what data is shown with an interactive plot

Greetings scholars,

You may have noticed there was some unscheduled downtime yesterday. Basically, there was so much traffic that the server got knocked down and kept getting knocked down.

So I got out my credit card and doubled the amount of RAM on the instance VPS. The instance is feeling nice and snappy today, if I say so myself!

We've just launched the #TornApart/#Separados website v2 featuring the work of volunteer scholars responding to the ICE-led border crisis of 2018. "Follow the Money", exposes the financial world of criminalizing free movement. http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/volume/2/visualizations.html

What are the #opensource & #openscience communities in this place like? ☺️

I am exhausted by some of the so-called open people in my field being hostile to my ideas — although the people who work with software are way more positive thankfully!

I feel really strongly about how science needs to dump closed source and bad programming habits, like Matlab. Often this blog post gets exposure that's positive but now it's being treated a bit negatively.

What do you all think?

http://neuroplausible.com/matlab

Unsurprisingly, there's a neat linear relationship between users and toots per instance on this plot of my upcoming book "why log scales are neat yo":

"LaVAN: Localized and Visible Adversarial Noise"

Neat paper by @DannyKarmon@twitter.com, Daniel Zoran, and @yoavgo@twitter.com (credit to @sir_deenicus@twitter.com for mentioning it in tweet thread). It feels like there should be a general purpose approach for dealing with such things.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.02608.pdf

@olivia There's the Mastodon logo, like in your link, but if you want the Scholar Social tusks crest, click on preferences in the web interface, then right-click the crest above "Back to Mastodon" and save that image

If you need it in monochrome, I can email that to you

(I maaaay have made a monochrome version to print on some business cards hahaha)

@olivia LOL wow these slides are good and even insightful for a newbie like me. 😅 I love that notebooks can involve interactive elements for newbies to play around with the code I've setup for them, but as the slides mention, this requires making sure that one cell doesn't depend upon the execution of some other cell, leading to confusing results if/when they're executed out of sequence [or the assumed sequence].

@olivia @socrates I guess you can use the mastodon icon to link to your scholar.social profile. Assuming that is your main mastodon account.

https://forkawesome.github.io/Fork-Awesome/icon/mastodon/

Hello, everyone.

I'm junior faculty in the Neuroscience department @MayoClinic. I primarily research #Alzheimers disease and #ALS using computational methods (#bioinformatics). I'm currently applying single-cell (#DropSeq) and long-read sequencing technologies (@PacBio and @nanopore).

My twitter handle is also @bioinfo_mark.

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