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Biostatistician at Generable Inc. Former computational biologist fluent in r/python/stats/stan. She/her/hers.

NYC
Joined March 2009
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Today I found this feature of Rstudio -- so helpful! How did I not know about this? Also the only way I have found to navigate to a specific line of a file, other than using vim keystrokes #rstats #rladies
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Getting Started with Quarto for R meetup.com/rladiesnyc/events… #Meetup via @Meetup
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Excited to announce our next R-Ladies NYC event: A Hands-On Tutorial for Visualizing Model Uncertainty with @XiaoyingPu meetup.com/rladiesnyc/events… #meetup #rladies #MCStan #rstats #nyhackr
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We're raising money to Help Migrant Families on the Street in Brooklyn gofund.me/6fff2a79 Click the link above (^) to participate
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We are hiring! @GenerableHQ is looking for a data scientist to join our team! Details here: linkedin.com/jobs/view/32353… Help us in our mission to improve drug development in oncology using Bayesian inference. #RStats #RLadies #rstatsnyc @mcmc_stan
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jackiburos retweeted
Take one person that _did not_ respond to treatment in an RCT back in time, make 1000 clones, and give each clone the same PD-L1 inhibitor which showed a response in 5% of patients. How many clones will most likely have a response? cc @VPrasadMDMPH
30%n = 0
13%n = 50
26%0 < n < 50
31%Unknown
77 votes • Final results
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Come check out our abstract at #sitc2020: Prognostic value of tumor size varies by treatment in a meta-analysis of 15 randomized clinical trials in advanced non-small cell lung cancer across immunotherapy, TKI, and chemotherapy regimens @GenerableHQ bit.ly/2IkFEBy
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I agree with this 100%. Voting should not be a struggle -- too many have struggled enough to obtain this right. Every difficulty in voting introduces disparities in access, keeping us from realizing the potential of our democracy. nyp.st/2F6YhXm
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Though hard to know direction of causality (re behavior <> language), the end result is to point the finger at the victim. which is wrong.
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Proud to be a constituent of @SenSchumer . Way to block Sessions confirmation! Cmte hearings shouldn't be a rubber stamp. Vet the candidate teapaw.org/SenSchumer/status/8264…
The American people need answers on exec orders from Sen Sessions. Jud Cmte shouldn’t proceed until we get them so I'll invoke the 2hr rule.
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“Knowledge consists in the search for truth… It is not the search for certainty.” -Karl Popper brainpickings.org/2017/01/26…
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Fun quote following today's #Rstatsnyc meetup: Python users are pythonic, but what are R users? Ironic
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Color of Fear - What it Means to be American youtu.be/2nmhAJYxFT4 via @YouTube WOW this made me think. Watch & listen.
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Help make it happen for 'Code School for Women in Afghanistan' indiegogo.com/projects/12240… #indiegogo via @indiegogo
“A 26-year-old MIT graduate is turning heads over his theory that income inequality is actually…” by @ferenstein medium.com/the-ferenstein-wi…
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"Visualization can surprise you, but it doesn’t scale well. Modelling scales well, but it can’t surprise you." Hadley Wickam, via @JohnDCook
You're doing it right if you get frustrated: if you're not frustrated, you're (probably) not stretching yourself mentally
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