• A great example of engaging with the public on science

    A great example of engaging with the public on science

    We love Reddit here. Like most websites that encompass a wide range of tops, there’s some great stuff on Reddit, and some really terrible stuff. We also love engaging with… Read More

  • How many $$$$$ is your title worth?

    RWJF maintains a database of all awards they have granted since 1972; a number that comes up to around 30,000 awards. We’ve been looking more deeply at what wasn’t funded… Read More

  • Digging into some CDC data

    Digging into some CDC data

    This is another one of those live blog post that I write while I do some data analyses. I hope you find this interested to see how we approach the… Read More

  • Analyzing change using the Pathways to Population Health Compass

    This is another one of those “writing a blog while I’m working” blogs. For the Rhode to Equity project, we administered three waves of the P2PH Compass. This tool actually… Read More

  • Effective Twitter Use Among PA Congressional Representatives

    Effective Twitter Use Among PA Congressional Representatives

    In our work for the RISE project, we have been looking at how different organizations have used Twitter to spread public health messages. These organizations aren’t the only ones with… Read More

  • A new dawn (chorus)

    A new dawn (chorus)

    Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. After several months of development, we’ve relaunched the Dawn Chorus… Read More

  • Solving a large data cleaning problem: an experiential live blog

    Solving a large data cleaning problem: an experiential live blog

    10:11 p.m. About five hours ago, a dear colleague said to me, “We need to have this data cleaned for the reports, oh, and it’s also going to be shown… Read More

  • Notes on “Notes on Effective Altruism”

    Notes on “Notes on Effective Altruism”

    I first came across the effective on Lex Fridman’s podcast where he interviewed William MacAskill. In a nutshell, effective altruism is the practice of making decisions based on the greatest… Read More

  • TA can work….if we study it well.

    TA can work….if we study it well.

    Our friend and colleague Victoria Scott just published a large scoping review on TA effectiveness evidence. She writes: Advances in the science and practice of TA hinge on understanding which… Read More

  • Using Twitter Data to tell stories

    Using Twitter Data to tell stories

    Earlier this week, our friends at the New Jersey Health Initiatives we kind enough to host our dear friend Dr. Elena Ragusa of Drive Evaluation and myself to talk about… Read More

  • Analyzing Twitter Data: There’s an App for that.

    Analyzing Twitter Data: There’s an App for that.

    Well, we finally did it. We launched a beta version of Readiness Learning Systems. So far, we only have two apps up there, which are designed to help you analyze… Read More

  • Implementation Matters: A website to document community-based practices, knowledge, and evidence.

    Implementation Matters: A website to document community-based practices, knowledge, and evidence.

    We just launched Implementation Matters–our 100% open-source, community-driven wiki to collect and store community-based evidence and perspectives on community-based issues. This is why we’re doing it. Vanishing Ideas Over the… Read More