Reposted by Usama BilalMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY 1130143177421
Reposted by Usama BilalJeff Weiner @jlweiner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The CSR comm I'm on just pulled all Diversity F grants from the current review cycle. These apps are reviewed alongside (and by the same criteria) as all other F grants. So, instead of helping these trainees, they will actually be punished by having their grant reviews delayed at least 1 cycle !?!? 21414178
Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Note that this goes beyond the "official" CDC SVI done at the tract and county levels only. The development version of the package also allows downloads using the 2018-2022 ACS (github.com/heli-xu/find...).github.comGitHub - heli-xu/findSVI: Calculate CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability IndexCalculate CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index. Contribute to heli-xu/findSVI development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025In case the census API were to not work at some point, we have used findSVI to back up all potential combinations of the SVI for all census geographic units (e.g., census block groups, tracts, ZCTAs, CBSAs, etc.) for all available ACS years. You can find that here: zenodo.org/records/1481...zenodo.orgCDC Social Vulnerability Index across time and spaceSocial Vulnerability Index (SVI) Multi-Geographic Level Dataset 2012-2021 Description This dataset provides a comprehensive compilation of Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) calculations across multiple... 130
Reposted by Usama BilalGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Let's all say it out loud. These people are fascists & this is a fascist take-over of the United States. You can couch your words more carefully, but the speed and ferocity of what is happening now is part-and-parcel of a coup. The GOP in Congress has surrendered. The Dems are out of their depth. 1/ 12461551786
Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The initial goal was to facilitate access to the SVI from R. For very different reasons that is still the goal. 011
Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If you need a tutorial and example, check here: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...joss.theoj.orgfindSVI: an R package to calculate the Social Vulnerability Index at multiple geographical levelsXu et al., (2024). findSVI: an R package to calculate the Social Vulnerability Index at multiple geographical levels. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(99), 6525, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06525 010
Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If you need access to the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, folks here had created the findSVI R package to reconstruct it using the Census API (which still works): cran.r-project.org/web/packages...cran.r-project.orgfindSVI: Calculate Social Vulnerability Index for CommunitiesDeveloped by CDC/ATSDR (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) serves as a tool to assess the resilience of com... 4129
