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David Hood

@thoughtfulnz.bsky.social

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I like collating data, and getting thoughts in the brain. I run https://thoughtfulnz.quarto.pub/nzcovidreport/ All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him. He tangata tiriti ahau

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2h

I wasn't part of Soon Lee's group, but I had noticed an invitation in the early afternoon and made a contribution of 40 or so captures to that group then saw it had closed down this evening.

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, he said, that explains it.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 3h

The code is self-documenting

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 3h

I did see a penguin costume in use in this post

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 12h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 3h

I'm Maker of sand views, with the whole data visualisations done via silicon.

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 3h

I recall that as a similar vibe to past elections. "Does not play well with others" goes for the supporters too.

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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 7d

NB: Covid remains a big problem for infants who are born with almost* no adaptive immunity to it. (Here, showing covid still hospitalizes more infants than flu in the US. But note, RSV hospitalizes more than both combined!)

*infants CAN get some immunity from maternal vaccination--important!

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 5h

With 2 30 year old archaeology degrees, I could be the D'Artagnan to your 3 musketeers.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 6h

Tāmaki Makaurau Drift

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 7h

I thought I’d have a go at answering the question: what’s the flow on effect on emissions budgets from the methane cuts?

The answer was worse than I had anticipated

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Scientists fear weaker methane target signals wider retreat from climate action

After cutting methane targets, New Zealand has a choice: shoulder the burden at huge cost - or cause more warming to the planet.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 8h

Which has only ever happened in the last week or so (the night leading into October 6th and the night leading into October 13th (when I mentioned this in corridor conversation I was asked if it had happened before, so I checked))

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 8h

Nobody south of Nelson/Marlborough was in hospital with covid last night (the Ministry of Health has updated the GitHub repo as well)

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 10h

50 years ago today thousands crammed into Parliament grounds in Wellington at the end of a 1100 km historic Māori land march from Te Hāpua in the far north led by Ngāpuhi leader Whina Cooper to protest against the continuing loss of Māori land. #TeRōpūOTeMatakite 🏳️

Photograph of Māori Land March demonstrators outside the Parliament Buildings in Wellington. Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March. Ref: PA7-15-12. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 10h

Beautiful view of my favorite part of Aotearoa!

MODIS Terra, September 18th, 2025 Can't believe that satellite is still taking such gorgeous pics for 26 years now! 😱 Gonna be so sad when she's retired.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 12h

There were 67,347 votes cast in Auckland on Saturday, up from approx 64,000 in 2022

Thinking there will be more specials as well than the 6,500 in 2022 (of which only like 4,500 or something were eligibile)

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 12h

And in confirmatory data, the Shiny app's updated with 3 weeks of data, and October 5th was the lowest (to October 5th) 7 day rolling admissions for covid per 100,000 population. the 4th tied for 2nd lowest. Acknowledging the theoretical possibility of data revisions, even if any it will be very low

Hospital admissions for covid from the Ministry of Health Shiny App (subtilely different to in hospital with which was also a record low)

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 12h

If I come across someone screaming “FIGHT ME!!!!” in real life I take a wide berth and when I see it here I just casually block them

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read.
Don't Bet Against Bari Weiss

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 22h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Data Behind the Scenes Conference @databsconf.com · 20h

Highlighting #DataBS Conf talks:

That market research data looks good at first, but you sense that something's … off. Way off. From technical matters to cultural differences to people moving the goal posts …

Ramona Daniel explains it all:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSA6...

DataBS 2025 - 03 - Ramona Daniel - 10 Red Flags Say Your Multi-Market Research Data Went Sideways

YouTube video by Data Behind the Scenes

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 15h

Christchurch City Mission needs our help! They provide 1600 Christmas food parcels for families and people in need through December, but they need boxes! 📦📦📦

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 13h

Some what people think of unions data I did a while back (TLDR the Prime Ministers views do not look to match the general population)
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · Aug 24

"Trade unions are necessary to protect workers" doesn't show any significant movement from 2020 to 2023, continuing with strong agreement in the 30 to 35% of respondents range.

Anyone who says they hear people saying unions are necessary is living in a pretty tiny bubble.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 14h

A general population shift (both within age cohorts and from older to younger) is very consistent to the increasing opposition to getting rid of the Treaty in the New Zealand Election Study

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · Aug 21

The New Zealand Election Study data for the 2023 general election is now out, and available publicly at dataverse.

I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.

The same colours is the same age group with 21 years of change. Different colours are people of different ages at the same point in time.

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