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• How your state might lose or gain representation with Census count
• Visualizing risk of Johnson & Johnson vaccine side effect
• Send postcards of plots made in R

How your state might lose or gain representation with Census count Posted: 14 Apr 2021 09:48 AM PDT Harry Stevens, Tara Bahrampour and Ted Mellnik for The Washington Post look at how the upcoming Census count affects representation in the House. Montana and Rhode Island are projected to gain and lose a seat, respectively, which switches their positions in terms of seats per population. The explanation of how counts and representation work, with a progression from abstract concept to specific cases, is on point. Tags: census, representation, Washington Post

Visualizing risk of Johnson & Johnson vaccine side effect Posted: 13 Apr 2021 03:20 PM PDT As the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pauses in the United States, Philip Bump for The Washington Post offers a quick visualization that shows 100 vaccinations per second. A red one appears if there’s a side effect. But because the side effect is rare, currently at 1 in 1.1 million, the red dot on the visualization likely never appears as you watch. The blue dots are potential lives saved if the J&J vaccine continues. I’m reminded of David Spiegelhalter’s video on understanding risk from over a decade ago. So many everyday activities carry risk. The only way we get through the day is not to avoid all risk, which is impossible, but to figure out what risk we’re willing to take. Tags: coronavirus, Johnson & Johnson, risk, vaccine, Washington Post

Send postcards of plots made in R Posted: 13 Apr 2021 02:52 PM PDT How many times have you made a plot in R and thought, “I wish I could send this as a postcard to my best friend.” Probably a million times, right? Wish no more. The ggirl package (that’s gg-in real life for short) by Jacqueline Nolis lets you send a plot over the internets to a postcard API, which sends a physical card to an address you specify. Tags: ggirl, ggplot2, Jacqueline Nolis, postcards, R

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