Tall ceilings permit huge banana plants

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Yesterday I met with indicators for updates, and scheduled a meeting with B to figure out how to add issue dates to the covidcast API. Made lunch, then ate it over the big group meeting. We discussed the changes to the release schedule, an issue that’s come up with the universal sample size minimum that makes us want to remove it, the future of the google surveys sensor, and considerations for switching cases and deaths counts to 7-day pooling instead of just daily. In parallel I got feedback from R on the proposed beta candidate, iterated that a couple of times, then all remaining problems disappeared when M unexpectedly got doctor-visits back online. Sent out the beta and tagged volunteers to test it. Re-generated the gold output for the synthetic F data. Arduously fixed the API acquisition code to reject signal names that are too long, since that seems to be causing a crash when direction/trend gets calculated. Met with B and specced out the database schema changes for issue date. In the cracks between things, whizzed up a potential template for a signals dashboard, but getting it to play nicely with R is being problematic. If I can’t figure it out I may have to switch to Python which will make including plots a big pain. Went to a meeting with the PIs and discussed shuffling management tasks around and what hiring we’ll need to do soon.

P did the garden in the morning; nobody else wore masks. 🙃 He went to the co-op and got carrots, zucchini, asparagus, tortilla chips, apricots, cheese, and half and half.

Dinner, crossword, P and I put together a farm order for Who Cooks, then DS9, snack, sleep. Dreamt of a pair of magical realism universes, trams, a violin that constantly fell out of tune, picking out dorm roommates, family residences in secret cabins that never existed, enormous houseplants passed down from one class to the next.