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Tony Dunsworth, PhD

@trdunsworth.bsky.social
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Data scientist practicing in a 911 centre. Hockey, cricket, and rugby enthusiast. Time series forecasting and bringing data science to PSAPs is my passion. NENA volunteer. Please no DMs unless you know me IRL!!

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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The calendar changed, so the new goals: get better in python, learn Emacs, write at least one paper, be a better husband and friend, mentor someone in 911 data analytics and data science, finish my level 5 in Toastmasters, write in my blog more, reach out more.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Debating how to outline the next presentation project. Ollama configuration is going to be the biggest challenge.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I follow her on LinkedIn as well and she's just flat out brilliant!!
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This is likely going to be a bit of a controversial blog post, but I updated my blog this evening: drddatascience.com/posts/Decept...
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Deception in Graphics and Statistics – Dr. D’s Data Science
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I found myself laughing ruefully this afternoon. I had applied to a position that a friend sent to me at a company he works for. I just got the thanks but no thanks email. Maybe because I don't have experience with dbt and Snowflake, but you'd think with 15 years experience and a PhD, I could learn.
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Ralph E @rowdydog.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The other idea I've been kicking around is updating my blog: drddatacience.com/blog talking about my dissertation. Many friends in the 911 community are interested, but the language is too academic and my data friends don't know as much about 911 centers and their data. Thoughts?
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Many ideas this weekend, should I propose a book idea covering Quarto and its many uses? Start up a project covering Manokhin's book, valeman.gumroad.com/l/MasteringM... and translate some of the code into R where I can? Thoughts from my data friends?
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Been reading a new book on time series forecasting and I think I'm going to follow along with many of the techniques the author demonstrates because I've worked on some challenging data that I question how forecastable it is. Will make some posts about it in future
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
For all my new followers, I'll apologize in advance for being boring. However, I'll try to do better. If you're interested in what I'm thinking, here's my blog: drddatascience.com/blog. I write a lot about the intersection between 911 and data science. Check it out and comment!!
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Dr. D Public Safety Data Science – Dr. D's Data Science
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/08/2025
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Another NENA conference in the books. Learned a good deal. Hopefully taught a good deal in my presentations.
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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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IndyGuy4KI @indyguy4ki.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Proud supporter of the community. Everyone deserves love and happiness. #pride #pridemonth #happypride
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Mac n Cheese @jamson4.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
We are all in this together.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Rescue Cora @mamajkmcc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Omg wtf wth
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
No matter how smart you think you are, there's always a reminder. I was outsmarted by 3 chickens today.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
After listening to the vice president in Munich, all I could hear was him pleading, "will no one think of the fascists and how they feel when you won't let them destroy civilization?"
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Lars C @larsc1045.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Louisiana Indicts New York Abortion Provider, Arrests Mother open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
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Louisiana Indicts New York Abortion Provider, Arrests Mother
These are the first post-Roe criminal charges brought against a doctor.
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Otm Shanks @leap44.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Getting ready to write a few blog posts about my experiences at NENA SBP and I want to start tailoring posts to 911 managers, data analysis, and 911 staff interested in statistics. Any of my followers here in those categories? If so, what do you want to know about the intersection of data and 911?
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Had a great week in Clearwater at #NENA #SBP25 and the AI critical issues forum. I was able to discuss my passion, data science and analytics in 911 with many of my colleagues. Quite a few great opportunities may spring forth from this. I enjoyed finding my place in the industry.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I think I found a path out of a research conundrum. I'm hoping that I can find enough resources to teach myself advanced queuing theory in short order. Specifically, data-driven queuing theory.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Brilliant
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Every so often, the universe gives me a reminder that I am good at what I do and that I really know a lot more than I think I do. That's not a bad thing.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Mixed feelings about someone with whom I interacted on LinkedIn today. Linked to a couple of papers suggesting LLMs aren't great for time series data, I agree. However, I take issue with running down data science PhDs in a Medium article.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Had a hail storm pass through tonight.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
@beamilz.com, I wanted to say thank you. I'm building my blog now and your post of how to do it in #quarto has been great to get me started and heading in the right direction. Obrigado!!
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Markfry🍁 @markfry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I just received the electronic copy of my PhD diploma tonight. I'm incredibly stoked!!
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Next projects, I think. Work, build a synthetic data set and evaluate more time series models. It's an extension of my dissertation, but it should be interesting. I'm also setting up an experiment for future presentations.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Ok, I'll bite. I've written a few posts but here's a quick intro: I'm a recent Ph.D. grad specializing in 911/112/999 systems and forecasting. My goal is to replace Erlang as a staffing algo for centres. I love sports, read anything, and am genuinely curious about everything. I want to learn
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
As a follow to that last whatever we call them here, it's 911 data and I'm thinking I'll probably grab some data and use it as a seed for synthetic data and use the synthetic for research. It's all call volumes, so it's very noisy and polystochastic.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My other idea is to take a dataset that's near to one from my dissertation, exploded in certain areas and do competitive multivariate forecasts using different techniques for practice and to see how well they all work. My employer will allow me to harvest the data to do this easily
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Still getting used to this place. Working out what to do in my new personal site that I need to build. Resume CV finished for now. Should I build it in quarto or R markdown, etc. And do I pick up where I left off from my dissertation and play with my data some more?
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
So, since I want to start posting more and thinking about things, one of the things that got me started was reviewing a staffing model using Erlang-C and finding that it recommended we treble our staff. That's not realistic for any 911 centre, so I want to build a replacement that fits PSAPs better.
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Tony Dunsworth, PhD @trdunsworth.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
I'm enjoying connecting with so many data science, ML, data engineering, etc folks. Make me happy to come here and learn from y'all. I'll contribute what I know too when I can
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