The Data+Science Initiative

In a Single Measure, Invariants Capture the Essence of Math Objects To distinguish between fundamentally different objects, mathematicians turn to invariants that encode the objects’ essential features.

The “generation interval” of a disease, the amount of time between when one person is infected and when they infect the next person, helps researchers determine the details of an epidemic’s spread. https://www.quantamagazine.org/chasing-covid-19s-r0-and-other-numbers-that-define-epidemics-20210322/

I Learned Data Viz in a Year, and You Can Too How I went from making simple charts to running workshops, and what I learned along the way

The statistician George E.P. Box famously said, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” Our new video investigates how usefully wrong COVID-19 models have been and why their true value often gets lost in translation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKOslhIFt6U&feature=youtu.be