Doin it right

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Yesterday everything still worked, so I should probably ping IT and have them close my ticket. I checked and delivered the aggregations, then put the rest of the morning into further analysis of what exactly went wrong with the F weights normalization. Went to lab meeting, stepped out for thesis meeting with M, back to lab and gave the report for the indicators team. Lunch, fixed a backlog of changes to the database for the covidcast API, answered email from a team building a report for the DoD on symptoms checkers/datasets, and emailed the newest individual response data partner about our status and what to expect in future. Met with the indicators team, showed off and discussed A’s bubble plot prototypes and developed a recommendation to send to the viz team, got updates on a few dangling tasks, and released everybody to have a fairly chill weekend. Went to the team leads meeting (now the “senior staff” meeting; fancy), received some very nice compliments from R, short report. R is both exhausted and learning more how to operate hierarchical organizational structures, and has enough self awareness to know that both he and the group would benefit from someone with greater ability and stamina in that department. So, we’re starting a search for a sortof COO, first amongst ourselves, then slowly moving outward. It is good. After that, received a new set of weights from F and repeated the analysis, with promising results. Worked with N to figure out whether the community question data was sparse because of a bug or because that’s just how the F survey works; ultimately we determined it was the latter. We now have a dev demo up and I’m super pleased with it!

Dinner, crossword, sleep. I started re-reading All Systems Red and have no regrets. P went on expedition to Dylamato’s and got carrots, asparagus, and some local bread flour.